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
Tag Archives: built environment
#PPPConf2013 – Industry Day to Explore Public Private Partnerships
Cover it Live blog for Days 1 and 2 now live here Are PPP’s the way forward for construction, energy, health, education, infrastructure and wellbeing projects? UCLAN are hosting an industry day with industry and academic thought leaders on the … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, construction, events
Tagged built environment, fairsnape, PPP, Social Media Construction, UCLAN
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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
Posted in comment, ecological, nature, route2zero, sustainability
Tagged Biomimicry, biophillia, built environment, co-operation, complexity, Ecology, economic, Egan, environmental impact., Jonathan Dawson, Living Building Challenge, Living Buildings, Rachel Armstrong, rethinking construction, Route to Zero, Schumacher, social media, Social Media Construction, sustainable construction, symbiosis, water, zero energy
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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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Water Energy Nexus – a built environment mindfulness
As a lead-up to Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, January 13-17, Masdar is sponsoring a blogging contest called “Engage: The Water-Energy Nexus.” The winner will be invited to Abu Dhabi as VIP media to cover the week’s high-profile events. The following … Continue reading
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Tagged built environment, CIRS, construction, energy, Living Building Challenge, Masdar, mindfulness, water, water energy nexus
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Ash disease and the built environment
There has been a huge amount of coverage in the media, and indeed across social media on Ash dieback disease, but little as yet related to the built environment, and the role we may have played in the spread of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ash, ash dieback, built environment, complexity theory, DEFRA, Green Vision, landscaping, Living Building Challenge, Muir
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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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Could built environment leaders cut it in a digital world?
An excellent Communique newsfeed from Nancy Settle-Murphy this morning, at looking at effectiveness of leaders in a virtual world. It strikes me this is a lesson perhaps for built environment and construction leaders as we move into a communication era that … Continue reading
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Tagged BIM, built environment, digital, leaders, leadership, Nancy Settle-Murphy, social media, technology
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Reinvigorating built environment sustainability leadership
An excellent blog post on sustainability.com suggests what a reinvigorated agenda for change may look like. We could learn a lot from this, for new and reinvigorated leadership in sustainability within the Built Environment sector, particularly in the UK as … Continue reading
Sustainability in Built Environment dominates Guardian Sustainable Business Awards
Sustainability in the Built Environment dominates Guardian Sustainable Business Award winners: At British Land – winner of the Guardian Sustainable Business built environment award: As the relationship with Camden council shows, British Land takes its corporate responsibility seriously and this is reflected in … Continue reading
Social media in construction – whats happening?
Towards the end of last year the Construction Marketing Association conducted a US national survey of construction professionals regarding their use of social media. Of note is that 90% of those surveyed used social media, and of those 91% managed social … Continue reading →