How to Dress and Undress your Home
solar.lowtechmagazine.com
Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

Appropriate technology in action. And as a bonus, textile insulation could use material from all those fast fashion clothes dumped in the desert or otherwise abandoned to dissolve into microplastics :/

  • MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Awnings are amazing and you can actually adjust them seasonally - extend them fully in summer to block heat, then retract them in winter to let that free solar heat in through your windows (just installed some last year and my cooling costs droped significantly).