Archive for April, 2008
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What I’ve been reading about:
The Game Plan : A solution framework for climate change and energy. - Great Creative Commons slideshow on climate change (via Dave Pollard).
The Greenwash Guide - Futerra's pdf (44 pp) on Greenwash is a guide on how to spot, prevent and avoid greenwash for consumers, companies and agencies. Bonus points for [...]
Acronym spaghetti
As an industry, we love acronyms. For newcomers this may be confusing.
I toyed with the idea of a seperate glossary page with links to sites, but that seemed quite a heavy workload. So I compromised and added a Wordpress plug-in which automatically displays acronyms (if I have defined them) when you hover your mouse over [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
The Code is not enough - sustainability thinking part one - Building Design - Great article from Jon Goodburn at WAG on sustainability definitions - extended to include institutions - and covering a broad range of sub-topics. Zero-carbon is so last year…
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What I’ve been reading about:
Business is polluting the environment, which we should all enjoy, just for the benefit of the rich - Madsen Pirie (Adam Smith Institute) on why more wealth is good for the environment.
Jeff Sachs’s Common Wealth - Tyler thinks Jeff is being too optimistic in his new book - Common Wealth. [...]
Forum fever
There’s a new sustainability forum over at Building (the brainchild of Phil aka zerochampion and Micheal aka Breezeblock). A guest post from Che Wall kicked off the proceedings and there is a flurry of activity since, no doubt helped by the inducement of a free iPod Touch for the first 50 posters.
Phil has asked for [...]
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 18th through April 19th
These are my links for April 18th through April 19th:
Construction Blog Practice - New blog from someone at Constructing Excellence
Asus Eee 900 to hit shelves on 1 May - ZDNet.co.uk - Going to hold out for the new and improved version (plus the 7" is nigh impossible to source instore in the US)
11 April 2008 [...]
Hurrah for BREEAM
Well, that post title may be a little OTT, but I am delighted to report that the complete technical guidance for BREEAM 2008 will be available to the public from June (thanks to Tom Saunders for letting me know).
Also available for comment until 18 May is a discussion document which looks at how well three of the [...]
Happy Blogday to me…
Is is really two years?
Almost 360 posts, over 70 regular subscribers, almost 8000 hits in the past year*, including over 250 to BREEAM is a means to an end post.
*Over 20% of visitors use Firefox as their browser, most of the rest use IE. Only 0.5% use Mac although one visitor found me using their Playstation [...]
My del.icio.us bookmarks for April 6th through April 8th
These are my links for April 6th through April 8th:
So you want to be an environmental performance assessor - Article from BSJ on EPC, etc. Interestingly, Gifford plan to have 6 assessors, but do not want to waste "good" engineers on the scheme. Certification already seen as a second tier profession and it [...]
More on activism
Ever noticed when you start thinking about a word or a topic, it starts popping up everywhere? Found this great discussion over at Ann Thorpe’s blog:
Within the professional design framework there is little space for activism. At best, designers can legitimize activism by finding “win-win” solutions that meet client profit-making needs while also addressing social [...]
