Del.icio.us.ness for March 9th
March 10th, 2008
What caught my eye today, March 9th:
- How to save money running a startup (17 really good tips) – The article that started the workaholic furore. Leaving that point aside, the tips are pretty good, especially the second monitor and the expensive chairs. Look after your staff appears to be the mantra – it pays for itself in the end.
- Fire the workaholics – This response by 37 Signals to Jason Calacanis’ (slightly) misrepresented tip of firing folks who are not workaholics has some good points. Worth following the thread to read Jason’s original and subsequent posts.
- Yorkshire’s Top Architects – Carey Jones knock SMC Gower off the top of the chart and DLA jump 3 places. Rance Booth and Smith drop from 21 to 30. All the usual suspects really…
- Go Caroline! – Building – Chris Addison (best known to me from ‘The Thick of It’ – what’s he doing writing for Building?) spoofs Caroline Flint. Best line – ‘I saw it on Grand Designs once’.
- Lightweight vs Heavyweight Construction Seminar – 13th March, Bristol – Is it better from an environmental point of view to build lightweight framed construction with insulation infill or heavyweight masonry construction with thermal mass?
- What’s wrong with cheap flights to Krakow? – Building – What on earth was Mark Leftly thinking? Gets quite rightly trounced in the comments, not so much for his views (he’s welcome to them) but the lack of journalistic rigour to the article. Nil point. Could do much better…
- Second Life avatars and Brazilians: the same carbon footprint – Ack! The internet’s carbon footprint revealed! Not good news…
- A New Form of Accounting as Carbon Calculator Goes Live – CALM is the first free business-based calculator which shows the balance between annual emissions and carbon sequestration of the key greenhouse gases associated with the activities of individual land-based businesses.
- Government fails to deliver on Part L – members of M&E Sustainability have denounced the Govt?s reluctance to enforce Part L. Describing the situation as ?shambolic?, they have raised serious doubts about the future impact of of other sustainability measures.
- Planning policy on renewable energy – Scottish proposal to dump planning permission for domestic renewables
- As Indians get power, carbon emissions rise – India has pledged to ensure that its per capita emissions never exceed those of the developed world. It points out that it contributes 4.6 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases although its people represent 17 percent of the world’s population.
- ASHRAE green building standard (189.1P) open for second public review- 3/3/2008 1:43:00 PM – Building Design & Construction – Proposed Standard 189.1 will provide minimum requirements for the design of high-performance new commercial buildings and major renovation projects, addressing energy efficiency, a building?s impact on the atmosphere, sustainable sites, water use etc
- Water to be the next commoditised resource – Wind generation requires just five litres of water to generate five megawatts, the average amount of energy consumed by a household per year. Coal requires 10,000 litres, while nuclear needs 12,500, to produce the same amount of power.
- Rising energy prices could make microgeneration viable – Faithful and Gould at EcoBuild
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