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: nature
Are we so oblivious to the ways of nature?
“After 10 generations of industrial society, and with most people in the west removed from a world of soil and sweat, we are so oblivious to the ways of nature that we cannot bring ourselves properly to absorb its vital importance” Mark Cocker author of Crow Country … Continue reading
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Tagged Crow Country, Mark Crocker, nature, reconnecting, sustainability, Tony Jupiter
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So, what have we done for nature?
Having listened to Tony Jupiter’s “What has nature done for us” podcast talk at the RSA over the weekend, my son Tom brought this simply brilliant animation to my attention – “what have we done to nature” … MAN from Steve … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, nature, sustainability
Tagged built environment, nature, RSA, Steve Cutts, Tony Jupiter
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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
Posted in built environment, comment, CSR, green business, literature, nature, profit from sustainability, resilience, route2zero, sustainability
Tagged 2052, Andy Ainsworth, Anita Roddick, be2camp, Biomimicry, built environment, Claire Walker, construction, CSR, Danone, David and Claire Hieatt, Dee Hock, E O Wilson, Eddie Murphy, Eden Brukman, environment, fairsnape, Faye Jenkins, Gary Hirshberg, Green Vision, GRI, Guardian Sustainable Business, GVis2012, Howies, InterfaceFLOR, Janine Benyus, Jeffrey Swartz, John Elkington, John Randers, Living Building, Mark Warner, martin brown, mel starrs, natural capital, Paolo Nutini, Patagonia, Paul Hawken, Paula Widdowson, pecha kucha, Pedro Pablo Cardoso-Castro, ray anderson, Rick Hamilton, Tamara Bergkamp, Timberland, Visa, Yvon Chouinard, Zeronauts
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Connecting to Nature – Every Child Outdoors
RSPB New Report Every Child Outdoors makes interesting reading:
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
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Tagged benchmarkwalks, Return to the Outdoors, Yvon Chouinard
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sustainable connectivity
A new look for isite with a new image on the top banner(*). I like this design as it includes a RSS button – to get isite delivered to your desktop, and a search facility to search back through isite … Continue reading
Posted in admin, benchmarking, benchmarkwalks, best practice, blogs, built environment, carbon footprint, CKE, comment, CSR, ecological, ecological footprint, energy, facilities management, fairsnape, futures, greenwash, improvement, links, nature, sustainability, virtual worlds
Tagged Beacon Fell, bencmarkwalks, connectivity, Forest of Bowland, John Muir, learning sharing, natural environment, Patrick Geddes, responsible sourcing, Satish Kumar, second life, soil soul society, supply chain, walking, work place folk
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LL Bean- Sustainability and Sensitivity
For an excellent and refreshing read of a collaborative project that is aligned to and sensitive to nature, read the the account of the new fishing store development at LL Bean (an old haunt of mine when living in New … Continue reading
Ecologically Rethinking Construction
Jonathan Dawson, head of economics at Schumacher College, writing on Guardian Sustainable Business asked “How do we redesign a new economic theory framed by ecological systems?” A question we need to ask and start addressing within the built environment. We are seeing a new … Continue reading →