Posted in built environment, construction, facilities management, sustainability, technology, web2.0, tagged Sustainability Now, The facilities show, Twitter on May 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Next week, the 12 – 15th May, sees a series of built environment ‘events’ in the UK:
Be2camp north in Liverpool 15th May (following on from the worlds first unconference for built environment)
Sustainability Now (13-14th ) Buildings Virtual Conference and Exhibition
The Facilities Show NEC Birmingham (12-14th)
All of these will use twitter as a ‘backchannel’ to enable off [...]
Posted in built environment, comment, events, technology, web2.0, women in construction, tagged Ada Lovelace, be2camp, be2campnorth, Suw Charman-Anderson on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am delighted that Suw Charman-Anderson (Social Techology Consultant, Guardian writer and twitter-er) will be talking at be2campnorth on the 15th May in Liverpool on the inspiration of Ada Lovelace
(Well actually Suw will be presenting from home via web and video link ups so that she can attend (as in walk to) another conference [...]
Posted in News, built environment, carbon, carbon footprint, comment, energy, route2zero, sustainability, transport on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time the UK’s leading business group has set out its vision for a low-carbon economy in a series of climate change roadmaps. The roadmaps, called ‘Going the Distance’, set out a timetable of action to ensure carbon emissions targets are met, and the measures that will be needed to put the UK in [...]
Posted in built environment, comment, improvement, innovation, technology, tagged complexity theory, edge of chaos, emergence, management systems, simple rules, Twitter on March 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It seems everyone is trying to understand and analyse twitter at the moment, so after nearly a year of twittering , here are my thoughts:
Perhaps it is a little more than coincidence that Twitter has been named after our feathered friends, as it is very close, in my mind, to the classic edge of chaos example [...]
Posted in BREEAM, LEED, blogs, built environment, comment, procurement, resilience, route2zero, sustainability, transport, tagged BREEAM, Hanham Hall, LEED, transition towns on February 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Mel Starrs over at Elemental has a great and useful article on local resources as seen from the LEED and BREEAM perspectives. Local materials, for local people (or a review of LEED credit MR5.1) Essential reading for those using these standards and grapling with the concept of local resources.
And yet there is another local resource debate emerging that [...]
Posted in built environment, carbon, construction, education, green business, housing, improvement, links, politics, resilience, schools, sustainability, tagged Climate Change, fuel poverty, green collar economy, SRDN, sustainable communities, zero carbon on January 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Items of interest to built environment + natural environment + sustainable communities filtered from the Sustainability Development Research Network (SDRN) update
Engaging Places
A new initiative has been launched by CABE and English Heritage to help every school exploit the world’s biggest teaching resource; ‘Engaging Places’ will champion and support teaching and learning through the whole built [...]
Posted in Blogroll, architecture, blogs, built environment, tagged blogging, blogs, justpractising on January 12, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Great to see new blogs being created that address issues relating to the built environment and web 2.0 ’stuff’
Fellow twitter Su Butcher has joined the blogosphere with justpractising:
So here it is. A blog about architects.
There are three things I want to do with this blog, things I have been doing elsewhere on the internet for [...]
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, facilities management, futures, green buildings, legislation, links, quality, route2zero, sustainability, technology, tagged DCLG, facilities management, zero, zero carbon on January 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As a post on this blog noted at the end of last year, the definition of zero carbon buildings is currently under consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
I am in full agreement with Casey over at Carbon Limited who blogs for a call to arms on this one, this consultation is so [...]
a transition view of the uk transition housing plan
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, energy, housing, politics, refurbishment, resilience, sustainability, technology, transport, tagged transition towns, zero, zero carbon on July 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A welcomed and important perspective on the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was posted by Rob Hopkins on the Transition blog:
After many months of Ed Milliband putting himself out there are a Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change that actually gets climate change, finally his big Plan, the UK Low Carbon Transition Plan was unveiled [...]
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