{"id":749,"date":"2016-04-21T00:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/?p=749"},"modified":"2022-07-05T12:03:57","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:03:57","slug":"bu-study-shows-home-insulation-can-save-carbon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/2016\/04\/21\/bu-study-shows-home-insulation-can-save-carbon\/","title":{"rendered":"New BU study shows home insulation can save lives and cut carbon emissions cost-effectively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>BU Professor of Public Health and ISE affiliate Jonathan Levy just published a new study explaining the cost-effectiveness and public health benefits of home insulation.\u00a0 On a national average basis, the study finds that the monetized public health benefits of home insulation in New England are $49 per ton of carbon dioxide reduced.\u00a0\u00a0 The study is unique for its ability to quantify state-by-state public health benefits, also known as <\/span><i>co-benefits<\/i><span>, from home insulation programs.\u00a0\u00a0 Read the full study <a href=\"http:\/\/iopscience.iop.org\/article\/10.1088\/1748-9326\/11\/3\/034017?fromSearchPage=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a> and see the video abstract posted below.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 480px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-749-1\" width=\"480\" height=\"268\" poster=\"\/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/Untitled-1.png\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/Carbon-reductions-and-health-co-benefits-from-US-residential-energy-efficiency-measures.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/Carbon-reductions-and-health-co-benefits-from-US-residential-energy-efficiency-measures.mp4\">\/igs\/files\/2016\/04\/Carbon-reductions-and-health-co-benefits-from-US-residential-energy-efficiency-measures.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span>This study was funded by the National Insulation Manufacturers Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Professor of Public Health and ISE affiliate Jonathan Levy just published a new study explaining the cost-effectiveness and public health benefits of home insulation.\u00a0 On a national average basis, the study finds that the monetized public health benefits of home insulation in New England are $49 per ton of carbon dioxide reduced.\u00a0\u00a0 The study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[699],"tags":[63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11750,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/11750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/igs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}