Posted on May 16, 2008 by fairsnape
Suddenly find myself with the possibility of speaking about our second life activities on the Public Works Island and International Eco Code Park at the 3DCamp in Limerick on the 24th May.
By a coincidence I will be travelling through Limerick on route to family holiday that day. The event will be live within second [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by fairsnape
The North West Centre for Waste Management in partnership with UCLan are presenting a Free CIWM accredited Construction Waste Awareness Certificate event for Construction Companies
Wednesday 4th June 2008 9.30am – 4.00pm University of Central Lancashire
This one day workshop has been designed specifically to address the issues arising from construction waste, and includes topics such [...]
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Posted on May 7, 2008 by fairsnape
On route to Think08 today so watch this space for live twitters and blog posts, so if you are attending and see me - please say hi !
Comments, reviews and posts from Think08 will also be carried by the group of UK bloggers who are meeting up later today at Think08, including:
carbonlimited
Elemental
extranet evolution
sustainability blog
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by fairsnape
To enable the second life discussions around isite themes of built environment sustainability, isite now has a new meeting facility within second life courtesy of the Public Works Island.
In addition to adhoc discussions with second life friends from around the world, it is planned to hold structured, but still informal events, exchanging ideas and [...]
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Posted on April 25, 2008 by fairsnape
The inaugural Centre for Facilities Management Second Life (SL) seminar took place today, Wednesday April 2nd 2008. The seminar, facilitated by Martin Brown, (aka Brand Woodin in SL) focused on Sustainable FM, but also referred to the developing research area of Community-based FM which looks at FM outside of the traditional boundaries and organisational settings [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2008 by fairsnape
Eco city world summit is underway in San Fransisco with Live Blogs. It will be of interest to witness how the concept of live blogging can capture the essence of conferences. I await the opening speech from Jaime Lerner with interest and will repost here.
From the opening plenary I noticed no UK representation [...]
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Posted on April 21, 2008 by fairsnape
Here are the slides /presentation I have made, in different formats, to a number of groups recently, pulling on a number of sources relating to sustainability in the built environment.
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Posted on April 16, 2008 by fairsnape
A few earth day related events I am involved with or attending:
19th April
Lancashire Quakers Green Festival - Garstang,
21st April
Earth Day talk at UCLAN - Preston, for Built Environment Students
22nd April
Sustainability in the built environment - to zero and beyond. Second Life Earth Day presentation / debate 10pm UK time at the Public Works Sim. [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by fairsnape
It seems we are becoming awash with green buildings, eco homes and eco towns.
There are some great sites out there with green architecture eye candy (check out Mad Architecture for example).
We have some major and significant conferences and events on the horizon - from the international Eco City 2008, Green Build 2008 and West Coast [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2008 by fairsnape
I seem to be on a conference theme this evening so I should give a plug for two important UK events, (or Phil will be after me)
Think 08 - 7 and 8 May 2008
Think08 is a free exhibition and high level conference about thinking through and delivering sustainability in the built environment. With over [...]
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