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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: mel starrs
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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on web awareness
Paul at ExtranetEvolution AEC conferences, content and ‘unconferences’and Jodie at I have no opinion world architecture festival have commented recently on the low awareness and application of web technologies in the AEC and conference world. As one would expect following … Continue reading
Posted in comment, innovation, technology, web2.0
Tagged AEC, be2camp, BIM, BIMstorms, CAD, CE, collaborative working champion, conferences, ExtranetEvolution, facebook, Facebook to BIMstorms, HND, jodie miners, mel starrs, Paul Wilkinson, second life
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Mel Starrs: sustainability champion, maven and friend
I was deeply saddened to hear early yesterday morning of the tragic passing away of Mel Starrs, a brilliant and inspiring friend across social media, at real life events and tweetups. The built environment has lost an important sustainability champion, … Continue reading →