David Brancaccio
speaker
2,652 appearances
78 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 5 May
David Brancaccio’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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When we contacted Dr. Mugabe all these years later, she was still in the house, the bones of which have just turned 100 years old.
And what we found is proof that you don't have to build new to be cutting edge.
What comes next year is from a fresh tour of the place.
The day of the recent visit, a crew was taking her house to the next level of energy efficiency, connecting its heating and cooling system to an underground geothermal well.
Magavi, in the intervening years, has become head of a nonprofit that works with utility companies to put in networked geothermal for whole neighborhoods, even towns.
Now it was her turn.
dig four to six feet into the soil even during a chilly New England winter, and there's a fairly constant moderate temperature that can be used to make a house warmer or cooler without much energy through the magic of thermodynamics.
When she first renovated, she thought to put in an air distribution system into the walls that could be adapted to new technology as it becomes available, and now here it is.
You can hear more of our reporting for Building Tomorrow, this weekend's special program on the future of American housing from Marketplace and this old house radio hour on many public radio stations nationwide.
As for the rebuilding of my own house lost in the big California fires last year, we have fire resistance, sustainability and cost in mind.
Could a chunky kind of wood be our answer even in a fire zone?
That's in the special.
And my ongoing stories are at Marketplace.org in Los Angeles.
I'm David Brancaccio.
From APM American Public Media.
Trade is the pits in South Africa, as in fruits with pits.
I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.
First, there's news that the cost of employing people did not go up as much as predicted.
At one level, that's too bad, since who doesn't want a bigger raise?
But if you're worried about interest rates or want inflation to come down, you may see this differently, which may be a bigger story than the other news this morning that retail sales have
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