Communicating sustainable solutions for the built environment
You may have seen the lovely infographic from Information is Beautiful comparing the daily CO2 emissions of the Iceland volcano to European air emissions earlier in the week? I couldn’t help thinking how it compared to the UK Non-domestic buildings daily emissions (as you do). Doing a quick back of the envelope calc for UK […]
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I’m not quite sure when I crossed the line from nerdy reader (a lifelong habit) to full on geekdom, but I suspect it was when I discovered blogs. I’m not ashamed by my geekiness, in fact sometimes I’m quite proud of it. But it wasn’t until I started working with a bunch of Gen Y’s […]
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Not often I back a winner…
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How many consultants does it take to change a light bulb? Three. One to change the bulb and two to write the standards and tell him what he did wrong. How many consultants does it take to change a light bulb? We don’t know. They never get past the feasibility study. How many consultants does […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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This applies to so much in the world. From the ever amusing PHD.
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Sustainability (the word) is suffering from chronic overuse. I propose we stop using the word sustainability and instead actually say what we mean. I’m by no means the first person to suggest this. James Evison, aka The Foreman at Contract Journal said the same thing last month. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not advocating cynicism […]
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After the serious note yesterday – some silliness. Rob Annable over at no2self has some coffee-snortling funny lyrics to the tune of I will survive: Were you the one who tried to break me with your RFIs you think I’d crumble you think I’d lay down and die? Â
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