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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Interested in the Built Environment?  Not sure about Web 2.0, social media, blogs, Twitter and the like?
Then Be2camp North is the event for you.
Following on from the world’s first Web 2.0 construction event, in London in October 2008, Be2camp North in Liverpool on 15 May brings together people interested in how Web 2.0 can help [...]

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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 [...]

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I am currently running an innovation circle for Construction Knowledge Exchange (CKE) looking at the use of web technology in construction at UCLAN.  The first session  took a lightning tour through communication, design and collaboration in the sector, from fax machines to BIM storms. 
Innovation circles are based on a cycle of four 2 hour sessions, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Reading many items and articles on the carbon issues that the built environment faces in the coming years, I have jotted a number of random thoughts in google notebook, which may one day be useful ’spin’ for example:

…almost every building uses more energy than design calculations …… technology alone is not enough …… design 20%, [...]

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“There’s a clear direction … away from people thinking, ‘This is my PC, this is my hard drive,’ to ‘This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.’”
Occasionally you come across a quote that reinforces up what you have been trying to communicate for ages, such is the [...]

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