ABSTRACT
This final chapter addresses palpable home precarities posed by global warming, confirming that responses to climate change prompt an urgent need to transform ways of living to generate environmentally sustainable, energy saving homes. The chapter identifies the household as a critical site that contributes to the severity of the environmental crisis and a key context through which customs, habits and daily routines can be renegotiated to realise sustainability as a moral imperative. It argues that the household itself should now be placed at the forefront of policy initiatives to combat climate change. What kinds of academic considerations and policy initiatives does this demand, and what kinds of housing and household schemes are under way to support the required levels of sustainable living? The chapter attempts to deal with these questions by addressing some of the key debates, rhetoric, initiatives and proposed solutions to the universal crisis facing home life in our time.
