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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my shared links over the last week (May 12th)
Experimenting with a round up of key links shared via twitter over last few days, brought together by Rebel Mouse.
Introducing the Living Building Challenge in the UK
It was a real treat to introduce the public lecture from Amanda Sturgeon as part of the UK Living Building Collaborative launch at the Interface showroom in London last night. Here are my introduction notes … Good evening and a … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, green buildings, sustainability
Tagged Amanda Sturgeon, fairsnape, Green Vision, Interface, LBC, Living Building Challenge
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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
Posted in Green Deal, sustainability
Tagged carbon, chouinard, climate, environment, fairsnape, Green Deal, keynote, mindfulness, Route to Zero, survivability, sustainability, think different, winning work
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#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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Construction Localism – how do you compare against benchmark?
Construction ‘localism’ is currently high on the agenda. And set to grow in importance. There is, rightly, much talk and focus on localism within construction projects and frameworks at the moment, based on the principle of keeping project spend local. … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, procurement, sustainability
Tagged benchmark, benchmarking, built environment improvement, carbon emission, constructco2, construction, Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, environment, fairsnape, footprint, frameworks, localism, Route to Zero, Social Media Construction, sustainability, sustainable construction
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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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Bidding to Win
Following my Bid to Win session in association with the Lancashire Construction Best Practice Programme and the Federation of Master Builders on the 17th May 2012, below is a background narrative article, links to the key slides and documents referenced. If you … Continue reading
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Tagged bidding, Bidding to Win, fairsnape, marketing, PR, social media, winning work
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Can social media drive built environment sustainability?
Can social media drive built environment sustainability? Over the last few weeks I have been working with Ryan at the Construction Network and the team at Sustainability Now on an exciting project to bring social media discussions into the free … Continue reading
Get Sus
Its always a pleasure to read the Get Sus e-newsletter from Melanie Thompson, and so more than happy to promote here. This edition is a thoughtful piece : EcoBuild – Construction with a hint of green? I do like that … Continue reading
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 →