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It’s that time of year again. Time for me to do a clear out of half drafted posts and round up the scraps of paper I’ve been scribbling on, and attempt to write a blog post every day for the next month. I’m cheating, as no-one ever reads this blog on a weekend (some people have things called ‘lives’ where they don’t feel the need to google ‘breeam 2008′ on a Sunday morning – that makes me happy), and only commit to 21 posts, Monday to Friday. And as I already have a regular Friday round-up post of my links on a Friday, I’m really only adding 17 posts. But that’s a fair number more than I’ve written recently (I’ve been doing exciting domestic things instead, like moving house, as anyone who has been following me on Twitter with be painfully aware of). Topics I intend to cover in the next few weeks:

• critique of Passivhaus
• BREEAM AP
• BREEAM vs. LEED
• window u-values
• energy masterplanning

Anything else you want to see tackled? Drop me a line in the comments and I’ll try my best (I might need inspiration by post 6!)

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These are my links for July 11th through July 17th:

• Kyoto2 Oliver Tickell – Kyoto2 is a framework for a new Climate Protocol under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for 2012 and beyond.
• Steering a sustainable path through GM issues | Forum For The Future – In summary, GM might have a role to play in securing a more sustainable food production system in the future…but, it’s definitely not a ‘silver-bullet’ solution to world hunger, climate change and poverty.
• Food and the G8 (Jonathon Porritt) – "There is a deep, hugely damaging fault-line running all the way through it (Food Matters), captured in a brave but ultimately forlorn attempt to hold both "business-as-usual" and "business transformed" within the same policy framework."
• Beware of hype on the value of green buildings- 7/1/2008 – Building Design & Construction – Use data with caution: "the LEED rating has no effect upon commercial rents, but the Energy Star rating is associated with rents higher by 2.8%"
• Soaring energy costs herald more whole life costing in construction – Building Services Journal – Excellent article on WLC, comparing private and public funded projects. Author is from the improbably named "Davis Langdon Mott Green Wall" which just goes to show the current state of consolidation in the industry…
• Romanian Green Building Council – Romanian GBC have set up a blog to inform peeps of it's movements and developments. Nicely implemented.
• Rethink Your Business Model Around Green – Harvard Business Online’s Leading Green – green businesses are challenging the conventional wisdom that centralized production delivers a sustainable advantage through economies of scale. In fact, in the emerging green economy, many businesses are shifting to distributed models where production i

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These are my links for May 26th through May 27th:

• IES Launches Free Tool : VE- Ware – IES’s VE-Ware, which is available to download for free online, gives limited but incredibly valuable access to its world leading <Virtual Environment> Apache thermal analysis software. New and existing buildings can now have their energy and carbon emis
• C-Plan – Carbon Impact Assessment – C-Plan is a revolutionary web-based service, developed by ECSC, that allows planning authorities and developers to demonstrate and verify compliance with climate change policy.
• Brickonomics – Newish blog from Construction Journal by Brian Green, combining an economics view with construction.
• Experts warn of looming climate change migration crisis – Countries that have the greatest responsibility for creating climate change also have a responsibility to deal with the casualties
• Stumbling and Mumbling: Public intellectual – an oxymoron? – To be very prominent in public affairs requires a dogmatism and capacity for soundbites that sits uneasily with the doubts and humble pursuit of “truth” that mark a true intellectual.

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