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: carbon
From Greendeal to Mindfulness in Sustainability
My More than Just a Green Deal keynote to the Merseyside Construction Conference March 13th 2013, making the case to see Green Deal as part of the Green Build and Sustainability agenda, and the need for doing the right green … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, chouinard, climate, environment, fairsnape, Green Deal, keynote, mindfulness, Route to Zero, survivability, sustainability, think different, winning work
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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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Construction Carbon Cost and Risk Management
Having effective scenario planning in place within a construction business is essential to developing effective forward looking strategies that protect the business into the future and provide resilience against change. One of our current uncertainties is related to the price … Continue reading
Five questions to drive sustainable construction
Whilst being a great advocate for learning from others, sharing and benchmarking best practice, often it is essential to ask questions of our approaches to topics such as sustainable construction, before comparing. In this mornings twitter fed reading stream was … Continue reading
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Tagged benchmarking, best practice, carbon, co2, constructco2, construction, environment, Interface, ISO14001, product manufacture, sharing, specification, sustainability
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Construction CSR Makeover: can construction learn from Patagonia?
CSR and Transparency seem to be linked buzz words in the world of sustainability at the moment. Fuelled perhaps by an increase in CSR generally, a growing awareness of social media ‘whistleblowing’, the potential of the Social Value Act and a … Continue reading
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Tagged carbon, constructco2, construction, CSR, Patagonia, social media, Social Value Act, SourceMap, supply chain, transparency
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ISO14051: Turning waste to gold with ISO standard for environmental management accounting
With the proposed demise of Site Waste Management Plans SWMP under the ‘Greenest Government Ever’ red tape plans, could a new-ish ISO standard that puts costs to the impacts identified under ISO 14001 provide direction, guidance or framework for construction … Continue reading
Half of Multinationals to Choose Suppliers Based on CO2 Emissions
Why monitor construction carbons: Shortly after writing a comment to a linkedin group on the importance of measuring and understanding construction carbons, through tools such as ConstructCO2, indications of increased focus on carbon performance popped up in a tweet (via Julie … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, carbon footprint, CSR, sustainability
Tagged carbon, co2, constructco2, supply chain management
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Towards low carbon construction IGT Report: Government Response
Snippets from todays launch of the Governments Response to the industry’s Innovation Growth Team Report: Business Minister Mark Prisk said: “An efficient, effective and profitable construction industry is at the heart of any growing economy. “Meeting the UK’s commitment to … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, construction, politics, route2zero
Tagged carbon, constructco2, construction, IGT
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A low carbon diet for construction boards
Question for you:who on your board is really championing sustainability and the low carbon agenda? Board members, as Lucy Marcus reminded us at construcTALKs, need to balance continuity with change, to embrace the changes in technology. From my experience in (small-medium) construction organizations, boards are … Continue reading →