Archive for December, 2008
This week’s essential reading December 21st through December 27th
These are my links for December 21st through December 27th:
Waking Up from the ‘Nightmare on Tech Street’ - O’Reilly Radar - "maybe we've reached the pinnacle of waste in our consumer culture. I do wonder if we will look back at the past few decades as a kind of sick aberration rather than a golden [...]
This week’s essential reading December 19th through December 19th
These are my links for December 19th from 12:35 to 12:35:
Wind, water and sun beat biofuels, nuclear and coal for clean energy, study finds - Death knoll for nuclear and biofuels? Case study is for cars rather than buildings, but an interesting study: "Jacobson has conducted the first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, [...]
This week’s essential reading December 10th through December 15th
These are my links for December 10th through December 15th:
Monbiot.com » One Shot Left - "… if we are to give ourselves a roughly even chance of preventing more than two degrees of warming, global emissions from energy must peak by 2015 and decline by between six and eight per cent per year from 2020 [...]
Housing gloom
Been tidying up my RSS feeds, doing a bit of pruning and catching up on feeds. One of the feeds I’ve been diligently ignoring has been Brian’s Brickonomics. Having now read back over the past month, I’m utterly depressed.
Having had a quick look at the mortgage market out there, the best deal I could find [...]
This week’s essential reading December 9th through December 9th
These are my links for December 9th from 09:37 to 09:37:
Toolkits. London Energy Partnership - "Low Carbon Designer"
An electronic toolkit that allows developers, building design engineers and planners to assess the energy performance of a proposed development using the London Plan energy hierarchy. The software has been designed to encourage energy statements to be produced [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Green Building Impact Report | GreenerBuildings - The Green Building Impact Report (GBIR) is the first integrated assessment of the land, water, energy, material and indoor environmental impacts of the LEED for New Construction (LEED NC), Core & Shell (LEED CS) and Existing Building (LEED EB) standards.
In this report we attempt [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Population (Jonathon Porritt) - "And the mega-reality I'm talking about here is carrying capacity: how many people can the Earth’s resources and life-support services sustain on an indefinite basis? The answer to that is obviously determined in part by the level of consumption of each individual human being. But even if, [...]
