Slipstream believes exploring the intersection of health and energy can help communities forge a stronger, more resilient future.
Programs that improve the environments where people live—such as weatherization and energy efficiency programs—have benefits beyond meeting people's energy needs. We can design programs and interventions that can impact people's health as well.
Our research explores how to better connect people with programs that improve their homes, which in turn can positively impact health, safety, and quality of life.
Featured stories
Health and home: The underrated benefit of weatherization services.
Healthy, affordable housing for all: It's the right thing to do.
Weatherization as community care: Peter Kilde on the mission to improve homes and lives.
Learn more from our research studies
- Findings from a two-year field study that evaluated induction cooking in 31 Michigan homes. These retrofits delivered measurable indoor air quality improvements, bringing levels of pollutants below health-based thresholds that were frequently exceeded when cooking with gas.
- Integrating health and energy to serve households with low incomes: A study with CenterPoint Energy's Integrating Health and Energy Efficiency project to connect healthcare stakeholders with utility energy efficiency programs that benefit social determinants of health (SDoH).
- Community-driven weatherization and decarbonization: Home energy audits to support the Pembroke-Hopkins Energy Efficiency Project, which aims to help rural residents engage with weatherization services and to improve their health and safety.
