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: Patagonia
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
Posted in CSR
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
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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Construction CSR Makeover: can construction learn from Patagonia?
CSR and Transparency seem to be linked buzz words in the world of sustainability at the moment. Fuelled perhaps by an increase in CSR generally, a growing awareness of social media ‘whistleblowing’, the potential of the Social Value Act and a … Continue reading
Posted in comment, construction, CSR
Tagged carbon, constructco2, construction, CSR, Patagonia, social media, Social Value Act, SourceMap, supply chain, transparency
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Sustainability: Breaking on through to the other side
“Break on through to the Other Side” sang Jim Morrison in the Doors way back in the 60s. Listening again recently started me thinking of how ‘sustainability’ could be ‘breaking through to the other side’ … to a time / … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, improvement, resilience, route2zero, sustainability
Tagged 2012, Chounard, CSR, Jim Morrison, Patagonia, resilience, sustainability, tipping points
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throwing eco sheep
At the time I heard the Radio 4 news report on Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, that we should use the Web for more important things than throwing sheep, and read the ExtranetEvolution blog, I also read … Continue reading
is ISO 14001 working?
I picked up a copy of the Patagonia outdoor apparel catalogue over the weekend. In addition to the photos and products, these catalogue are always a good read to see how a leading organisation is approaching and communicating their environmental … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, comment, ecological footprint, greenwash, legislation, sustainability
Tagged ISO 14001, Patagonia
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… on what makes a building green
Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. Patagonia’s Mission Statement I have mentioned Patagonia the outdoor clothing organisation a few times before on this blog, and recently searching … Continue reading
Posted in blogs, comment, CSR, ecological, green buildings, innovation, links, sustainability
Tagged Patagonia, Yvon Chouinard
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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 →