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A podcast documentary series about building more than walls. Across the United States, families face an urgent crisis: housing costs are rising faster than wages, leaving teachers, first responders, service workers, and retirees without stable places to live. Behind every statistic is a story — of parents choosing between rent and groceries, of kids uprooted again and again, of volunteers lifting hammers to turn hope into something real. Hosted by Mark Deal and Pat Fenner, Habitat: Heart, Hammer, and Home takes you onto build sites and into living rooms to hear firsthand from homeowners, ...

Notre mission : Sensibiliser, informer et former particuliers et professionnels en vue d’atteindre des rénovations et des constructions pertinentes, salubres, pérennes, durables, respectueuses de l’environnement Nous ne pouvons plus nous contenter de l’empilage de solutions conventionnelles mais trop souvent inadaptées, en particulier à l’habitat ancien. Avec le podcast “Soignons l’habitat”, nous vous proposons d'aborder des thématiques qui vous donneront les clés pour améliorer votre confort tout en économisant ressources et énergies. Si vous souhaitez aller plus loin...

Au cœur de la cité-jardin de la Délivrance à Lomme, quartier emblématique de la métropole lilloise, édifié dans les années 1920 à l'attention de familles de cheminots, partez à la découverte des mystères et des secrets de la Maison du Docteur.Aux côtés d’habitants de la ville, sillonnez l’histoire de cet ancien dispensaire dont chacun garde un souvenir personnel. Assistantes sociales, maire, bénévoles, anciens patients, tous ont cette histoire en commun : la Maison du Docteur, emblème de leur cité.Pour en savoir plus, retrouvez l’exposition en gare de Lille-Flandres ...

The Fens is Britain's most distinctive, complex, man-made and least understood landscape. Francis Pryor has lived in, excavated, farmed, walked and loved the Fen Country for more than 40 years: its levels and drains, its soaring churches and magnificent medieval buildings. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist.

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years. Once one of the continent's most ubiquitous mammals, they ranged from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Rio Grande to the edge of the northern tundra. Wherever there was wood and water, there were beavers - 60 million (or more) - and wherever there were beavers, there were intricate natural communities that depended on their activities.

Climate change and housing affordability are two of the most pressing issues in cities today. The Green in Action podcast asks, what are practitioners doing to address these urgent concerns? Join host Kimberly Vermeer, President of Urban Habitat Initiatives, for stories about green leadership in affordable housing. Green in Action dives deep into the successes, innovations, and challenges of green leaders developing sustainable and equitable communities. Learn more about the pod at www.urbanhabitatinitiatives.com/podcast-home/ and follow us on Twitter @UHIPodcast.