Archive for September, 2006
Discussion forums round one: CIBSE vs. DCLG
I was mooching around the CIBSE discussion forums today, lamenting why they weren’t active and what could be done about it. There’s a few problems with the forum:
There is a members only discussion forum, locked away behind your membership number and a password - not information I could readily remember. The general discussion [...]
Proof that you can’t scare people into going green
Condensed from the ESPRC press release:
New research published 25 September 2006 by the Economic and Social Research Council shows that positive, informative strategies which help people set specific environmental goals are far more effective when it comes to encouraging behaviour change than negatives strategies which employ messages of fear, guilt or regret.
Theories have long suggested [...]
Lifehacking my thought processes
I have been asked recently on a number of occasions ‘Why do you blog?’. I have a couple of answers depending on who asks the question, the most common (mostly to people I have worked with in the past) being ‘Remember how I used to send emails around to everyone when I found something [...]
Degree Days weather data via Vilnus Vesma
I’m afraid I’m 3 years late in noticing this, but it must be 3 years since I last tried to look up any degree day data online. The online home for degree day data has been with Vilnus Vesma since before I had my own connection to the internet at work (anyone else remember [...]
BREEAM news and happenings
I hate when blogs apologise for not having posted in a while, so I won’t. I’ve done a little housekeeping around the site - an upgrade to WordPress (my blogging tool) and a new RSS feed button (above and on my sidebar). If anything is broken, let me know. Now back to [...]
