Today the Guardian Environment Blog published a piece by Doug calling for the word ‘Sustainability” to be banned from all technical and political discourse as it has become so corrupted as to be meaningless. Read the article
How did CSR – Corporate Social Responsibility become replaced with CSR – Corporate Sustainability Rhetoric? Isn’t it time to throw out the sustainability rhetoric and put responsibility back in business? Continue reading
I am currently preparing my talk for the annual Lignacite Lecture which I will be giving next month entitled ‘Building on Evolution’. I have taken as my theme the tacit knowledge of historic builders and what we could learn from … Continue reading
Doug has been invited to give the annual Lignacite Lecture at the Royal Society on the evening of 26th September. ‘Building on Evolution’ will explore the tacit knowledge of historic builders and examine how we could apply it to developing the sustainable buildings of the future. Limited tickets are available from Lignacite, but its first come first served: http://www.lignacite.co.uk/News/lecture.html
It seems to me that the model of speculative commercial development funded ultimately by our pensions is built on an increasingly uncertain premise that asset values will continue to increase regardless of a building’s performance in the market. Are these paper assets actually worth the paper they are written on? Continue reading