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 [...]
Posted in comment, energy, housing, sustainability, tagged eco homes, passivhaus on May 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Su Butcher has posted an excellent and very useful comment on PassivHaus being about saving energy over on her blog, Just Practicing. I did comment there in brief but here is a more detailed response.
Relationship with Code 6 and Carbon Definition As was reported from the Zero Hub consultation Passiv Haus is the aspirational target of the UK [...]
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 blogs, sustainability on April 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Prompted by a tweet from Paul this morning I have been reading back through the excellent informative posts on his HipConsultant Blog
In addition, since the end of 2008 HIP-Consultant.co.uk has been on twitter to
Update followers with articles published both on our blog and at Ezines.
Update about news from HIP-Consultant.co.uk
Detail related UK Property News of interest and followers hopefully will appreciate.
Find [...]
Posted in events, sustainability, technology, web2.0, tagged BREEAM, ecobuild, passivhaus, Sustainability Now, virtual conference on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Phil Clarke at Building Mag @zerochamp has asked me to be a champion for the forthcoming Building magazine’s Sustainability Now virtual event taking place 13 and 14 May.
Still awaiting details, but I will be online in the discussion lounge on the 14th May and look forward to chatting with you there (and hopefuly drinking virtual champagne with Mel and [...]
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 carbon, comment, links, sustainability, tagged code level 6, zero carbon on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There are a number of papers and proposals out for consultation at the moment, one just closed and another still to come. So as a guide (and really looking for correction here if anyone can add to):
Code for Sustainable Buildings Consultation closed – expected feedback from UKGBC at Eco-Build
Zero Carbon Definition for Housing and Non Domestic [...]
Posted in comment, greenwashing, housing, legislation, links, route2zero, sustainability, technology, tagged code level 6, Twitter, zero carbon, zero carbon hub on February 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Wednesday I sat in on a Zero Carbon Hub consultation event relating to the defining-zero-carbon-homes-presentation2zero carbon definition for buildings. I did manage to send some tweets via twitter during the session, and here, I have pulled these together to give a view on the consultation paper.
The event was not quite what I was expecting, as [...]
Time to rethink (not re-tinker with) sustainability #BAD09
Posted in comment, greenwash, greenwashing, sustainability, waste on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh what a web we have weaved on our route to sustainability. And while we seek sustainable construction and head towards zero carbon homes, are we not in real danger of creating an industry that is in itself not sustainable or resilient?
We have spent a huge amount on sustainability technology, on green marketing, of [...]
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