martin brown
Improvement advocate in the built environment with a passion for social media, wildness, music, mountains, walking, cycling, astronomy, geostuff, outdoor, inspirations, dark skies, connectivity, edge of chaos, improvement, natural environment, CSR, built environment, virtual worlds, resilience, community enterprise ... and more
Category Archives: literature
The Carbon Cycle: Transition Event
In 2006 Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska. Along the way she talked to ordinary Americans about their views on climate change and saw for herself some of what’s at stake. In 2012 she published a book … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, cycling, events, literature, sustainability
Tagged carbon, co2, cycle, Garstang, Kate Rawles, The Carbon Cycle, transition
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Sustained summer reading and listening
Stuck for a rip-roaring read or an essential soundtrack to your summer break? BSJ online asked 13 loyal readers of the sustainability channel to put forward their cultural favourites for the holiday season. Try out this über list of print … Continue reading
your top three environmental books
What are the top three books you’ve read on environmental issues that you would recommend? Why are they great reads,important or influential? Join the discussion underway on the Linkedin Sustainability Questions page and learn what others feel are important environmental … Continue reading
latest Grid Works issued
The latest issue of Grid Works has been issued and is available for download from here or from vendors on the Public Works area within Second Life. Once again CivilE Writer (editor) has pulled together an excellent journal that illustrates … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, collaborative working, comment, design, literature, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0
Tagged fillthathole, Fixmystreet, GridWorks, wikitecture
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chicken in the blasket roof
From a non-conference on virtual worlds in Limerick – to the experience of reconnecting with nature, wildness and remoteness at the edge of Europe … Last week I had the privilege of once again spending time on the Great Blasket … Continue reading
Posted in comment, ecological, ecological footprint, literature, nature, sustainability
Tagged Blasket Islands, connecting with nature
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reconnect with nature: return to the outdoors
Connecting with nature is one of the underlying themes to this blog, (see the welcome panel on the left), but unfortunately that gets lost sometimes with the more day to day built environment stuff. I feel this is important – … Continue reading
Posted in comment, ecological, literature, nature
Tagged benchmarkwalks, Return to the Outdoors, Yvon Chouinard
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environmental literature top 5
Looking at the search topics entered to land at isite, the subject of environmental literature, movies, music and people features large. So starting a new mini series of environmental muses, I scanned my book shelf for what I would consider … Continue reading
… on st georges day
Today being St Georges day I thought some typically english and traditional post would be in order, but that has relevance to our sector and the themes of sustainability. I recently heard a reading of Elliots East Coker, which may … Continue reading
Posted in comment, housing, literature, sustainability
Tagged comment is free, Elliot, Simon Jenkins, st georges day
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time for built environment transition?
We may now have a handbook for sustainability change in our sector. When facilitating sessions on sustainability in the built environment, I often get delegates to ‘stand in the future’, 2030 is always a good date, imagine what buildings and … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, construction, education, futures, housing, innovation, links, literature, post carbon, sustainability
Tagged Think 08, transition towns
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Heros and Texts for a future Built Environment based on #CSR
“suddenly the air smells much greener now” Listening to ‘These Streets’, lyrics by Paolo Nutini summed up the brilliant, inspiring Green Vision conference in Leeds – exploring CSR within the built environment. A mix of talks, presentations, round table discussions … Continue reading →