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time for built environment transition?
We may now have a handbook for sustainability change in our sector. When facilitating sessions on sustainability in the built environment, I often get delegates to ‘stand in the future’, 2030 is always...
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… on st georges day
Today being St Georges day I thought some typically english and traditional post would be in order, but that has relevance to our sector and the themes of sustainability. I recently heard a reading of...
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environmental literature top 5
Looking at the search topics entered to land at isite, the subject of environmental literature, movies, music and people features large. So starting a new mini series of environmental muses, I scanned...
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reconnect with nature: return to the outdoors
Connecting with nature is one of the underlying themes to this blog, (see the welcome panel on the left), but unfortunately that gets lost sometimes with the more day to day built environment stuff. I...
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chicken in the blasket roof
From a non-conference on virtual worlds in Limerick – to the experience of reconnecting with nature, wildness and remoteness at the edge of Europe … Last week I had the privilege of once again spending...
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latest Grid Works issued
The latest issue of Grid Works has been issued and is available for download from here or from vendors on the Public Works area within Second Life. Once again CivilE Writer (editor) has pulled...
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your top three environmental books
What are the top three books you’ve read on environmental issues that you would recommend? Why are they great reads,important or influential? Join the discussion underway on the Linkedin...
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Sustained summer reading and listening
Stuck for a rip-roaring read or an essential soundtrack to your summer break? BSJ online asked 13 loyal readers of the sustainability channel to put forward their cultural favourites for the holiday...
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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...
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The Carbon Cycle: Transition Event
In 2006 Kate Rawles cycled 4553 miles from Texas to Alaska. Along the way she talked to ordinary Americans about their views on climate change and saw for herself some of what’s at stake. In 2012 she...
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