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
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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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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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PQQ Secrets: Listening to the voice of the customer
For PQQ responses to have chance of success they need to address the requirements and aspirations of the client and project. They also need to differentiate from the competition. So when a client organisation presents on how to differentiate at … Continue reading
Posted in carbon footprint, construction, CSR, procurement, quality, safety, sustainability, winning work
Tagged 14001, 18001, bidding, co2, community, construction, Health and Safety, IMS, innovation, PQQ, sustainability
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Running an eco friendly home – Infographic
Interesting infographic courtesy Wickes via http://dailyinfographic.com/ Also interesting to note how many are of these are Green Deal measures and how many behaviour measures, indicating we get greater CO2 and energy reductions through lifestyle choices?
Green Deal Thoughts: Is green deal missing the behaviour measure?
Could Green Deal fail it its core objective of reducing CO2? Green Deal is a necessary and welcome approach to funding improvement to our built environment fabric, increasing the use of renewable energy, and importantly providing structure to eco-fit work … Continue reading
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Tagged benchmarking, co2, energy, energy effecient, Green Deal, greendeal, iphone, LCBPC, Pachube, strava
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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
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Tagged carbon, co2, constructco2, supply chain management
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Construction supply chain footprints
Our construction carbon tool, Constructco2, through its ability to monitor a projects supply footprint is throwing up some interesting issues: Take a look at a project footprint that has a focus on localism – ie in keeping material, supplier, management and … Continue reading
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Tagged appropriate sourcing, co2, constructco2, construction, CSR, localism
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Natural Mossland Carbon Capture Scheme – putting a ‘natural’ cost to carbon?
Not to be confused with carbon offsetting. If we are serious about moving to low and zero carbon construction then this Mosslands conservation project looks like a good approach to capturing all those tricky CO2 emissions from your site or … Continue reading
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Tagged co2, constructco2, Lancashire Wildlife Trust, low carbon construction, mosslands, peatlands
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Carbon taxes to deliver ‘free’ #GreenDeal home improvements? #CSR
Reducing carbon emissions and lifting home owners out of fuel poverty traps were central to the development of Green Deal. Reducing CO2 through Green Deal was part of the government’s fourth Carbon Budget to deliver the Climate Change Act 2008. … Continue reading →