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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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Tag Archives: eco city
UK’s first carbon neutral city
It was only a matter of time before the extension of eco homes, eco villages and eco towns was applied to eco cities in the UK, after all the rest of the world has eco-cities. I should mention the great … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, community based fm, CSR, links, News
Tagged Ashton Hayes, carbon neutral, carbon neutral village, Eco Cities, eco city, Sterling
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Eco City 2008 – this week
Eco City 2008 conference gets underway this week in San Fransisco. isite will be relaying media from the event through to the UK as a bogging partner. What will of course be of interest to UK readers is the comparisons … Continue reading
isite news and update
Media Partner Delighted that isite has been invited to become media blog partner to the Eco City 2008 World Summit and West Coast Green conferences. Watch out for live feeds. Feeds Bright Green: looking for that new job in sustainability … Continue reading
Posted in admin, fairsnape, links, second life
Tagged Bright Green, eco city, Twitter, West Coast Green, WICE
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Eco City 2008
The Eco City 2008 blog continues to profile Eco City projects and urban architects and other leading thinkers in its build up to the Eco City World Summit conference at the end of the month. The posts, links and articles … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, events, links, sustainability
Tagged eco city, eco villages, eco-towns
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UK’s First Planned Ecovillage Gets Go-Ahead
The South Wales eco-village Lammas (covered here on isite recently) gets the Treehugger and Eco City coverage What a world of difference between the eco-villages of the Hanham Hall type and Lammas. No doubt as to which best claims the … Continue reading
EcoCity 2008
A wealth of information relating to urban and city futures is to be found through the EcoCity2008 conference web site and media blogs, including interviews and podcasts through the Tomorrow Matters internet radio. With a strap line of Get Ready … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, events, facilities management, futures, sustainability
Tagged eco city, eco town, transition towns
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zeroHouse
A search over a coffee, starting from Pam’s link (here) led me to zeroHouse. Now this may be hitting a lot of boxes on the zero list, may be an architects vision or dream, but to call eco (as in … Continue reading →