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After what fellow blogger Mel Starrs described yesterday as “a funny old week” involving a range of heated discussions it was refreshing to hear from a man of action. Step forward then Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, who gave a lecture last night at the RSA. Sinclair’s work, which was described by RSA [...]

So I’m in rather frantic planning mode for virtual events right now. In particular there’s hopefully plenty of activity in and around Sustainability Now to satisfy those of you who just can’t get enough of debate and discussion around this issue. There will be a full conference programme this time – so not the mainly [...]

So I’m under pressure this morning. Lots of meetings as ever and a deadline of around 17 minutes to get a post out about Blog Action Day. There’s also a bunch of bloggers across my company that are taking part as well, which is nice (see below). I’m clearly not going to match the level [...]

We live in strange times. For the past few weeks we’ve been waking up with some dread, expecting another depressing set of economics news, company results or political/global crises. Then comes this morning. I awoke halfway through John McCain’s concession speech then fired up the TV to watch Obama give what I’m sure will go [...]

The latest in my haphazard series of random musings on the future state of the globe.
So just how excited can we get at the prospect of the man who likes to say change entering the White House? Let’s hope he gets there in the first place.
I’m somewhat reminded of the heady days of 1997 when [...]

To Pall Mall last night for a lecture from James Woudhuysen, the professor of forecasting and innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester. Or alternatively a sustainability iconoclast. By that I mean he has it in for greenies that believe we need to rethink man’s role in the world. So out goes conservation, reduction or going [...]