Rachel Goldlust is a freelance historian, renewables and energy efficiency specialist, public speaker, writer and academic. She is also a qualified town planner, building consultant, natural builder, permaculturalist, project manager, educator and workshop facilitator.
Rachel specialises in a wide variety of historical and contemporary sustainability research, green and natural building projects and running educational seminars and in-person events. Her work includes delivering online content, commissioned histories, planning consultancy, oral history and research for film and television.
Her academic research focuses on 20thC environmental history with particular interest in housing histories, back-to-the-land ideas and practices, off-grid lifestyles and values, housing alternatives, climate solutions, urban and rural planning, policies of environmentalism and agricultural settlement.
Rachel specialises in a wide variety of historical and contemporary sustainability research, green and natural building projects and running educational seminars and in-person events. Her work includes delivering online content, commissioned histories, planning consultancy, oral history and research for film and television.
Her academic research focuses on 20thC environmental history with particular interest in housing histories, back-to-the-land ideas and practices, off-grid lifestyles and values, housing alternatives, climate solutions, urban and rural planning, policies of environmentalism and agricultural settlement.