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: Green Vision
Green Vision for Social Media at Green Build Expo
Be2Camp returns to Greenbuild Expo in May with Green Vision. This year’s session, taking place on 8th May at Manchester Central from 1pm, will be the most exciting yet, with an amazing line-up of speakers (see below for programme). GreenBuild … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Amanda Sturgeon, fairsnape, Green Vision, Interface, LBC, Living Building Challenge
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Have we picked the low hanging fruit of Sustainable Construction?
The mid 90′s saw my first involvement with sustainable construction, as Business Improvement Manager, setting up strategy and awareness programmes for Mowlem Construction, driven it should be noted to address client bid requirements in PFI and Prime Contracting. At that … Continue reading
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Tagged #GVisChat, accommodationalist, circular economy, climate, collaborative working, construction, CSR, environment, green build, Green Vision, Healthy Product Declaration Standard, ISO 14001, Living Building Challenge, mindfulness, Route to Zero, sustainability, sustainability policy, zero
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The world may not be ending today, but does the construction industry continue to waste as though there is no tomorrow?
OK, not all construction and indeed we have many exemplar, near-zero-waste construction projects , yet the industry continues to be wasteful, locked into a Take, Make, Waste attitude that contributes 40% of all waste. The last few weeks of Green Vision activity have highlighted … Continue reading
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Tagged circular economy, construction, construction projects, cornucopian, cradle to cradle, Green Vision, landfill, near-zero-waste, waste
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3 R’s for rethinking built environment sustainability
Its over ten years since rethinking construction became the driving force for improving the construction industry. Back then, in 1998, sustainability wasn’t on the agenda for many construction organisations, and didnt feature in Egans influential report. Now at the close of … Continue reading
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Tagged #Givschat, benchmarking, benchmarkwalks, circular economy, connecting with nature, construction, cradle to cradle, deep green thinking, design, designing out landfill, Earth2.0, Green Vision, GVis2012, Healthy Products Standard, Interface, Living Building Challenge, Living Building Challenge UK Collaborative, natural capital, nature, One Planet Living, Patagonia, Re-Connect, re-design, Re-Kindle, resilience, rethinking construction, sustainability, toxic materials
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Built to Last – Designing Out Landfill
There has been an increase in circular economy thinking and the built environment recently, and no doubt we will see much more in the coming weeks and months. It forms a core element behind the Green Vision half day conference … Continue reading
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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On Patagonia
Since the early ’80′s Patagonia has featured in my life, initially in respect of climbing hardware and outdoor clothing and latterly as a real source of CSR, Corporate Social Responsible inspiration. I recall my first purchase, and a still a … Continue reading
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Tagged CSR, Green Vision, Patagonia, sustainability, Vincent Stanley, wilderness, Yvon Chouinard
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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
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Tagged fairsnape, CSR, construction, built environment, Yvon Chouinard, Patagonia, be2camp, pecha kucha, martin brown, mel starrs, InterfaceFLOR, Guardian Sustainable Business, Green Vision, Living Building, GVis2012, environment, natural capital, Eden Brukman, Tamara Bergkamp, Eddie Murphy, Faye Jenkins, Claire Walker, Rick Hamilton, Mark Warner, Pedro Pablo Cardoso-Castro, Andy Ainsworth, Paula Widdowson, ray anderson, Paul Hawken, Janine Benyus, Biomimicry, E O Wilson, Anita Roddick, John Elkington, Zeronauts, 2052, John Randers, Gary Hirshberg, Jeffrey Swartz, David and Claire Hieatt, Danone, Timberland, Howies, Dee Hock, Visa, Paolo Nutini, GRI
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Managing sustainability knowledge across social media.
After last weeks UCLAN Centre for Sustainable Development, Social Media launch session I was asked how to ‘manage’ and ‘filter’ what you can learn and share across the world of social media sustainability. It was not too easy to summarise in a few minutes … Continue reading →