Posts Tagged ‘Copenhagen’

Having read the initial gloomy summaries of how disastrous the Copenhagen conference was in the hours and days afterwards I, probably like many, put it to the back of my mind and concentrated on enjoying a high carbon Christmas. So in sober January it was useful to get a less tabloid version of events over [...]

On a pretty grim night (driving sleet, collapsing Copenhagen discussions etc.) I discovered something of an oasis of optimism in the snug surroundings of the Shortwave cinema in Bermondsey Square. That’s the place with the rather original version of a Christmas tree made from recycled bicycle wheel, designed by Sarah Wigglesworth. There was a special [...]

It’s good to see that Mark Brinkley’s considerable intellect is grappling with the debates that Copenhagen has set off. Last week he posted on economic growth, with the inevitable ensuing mixture of measured debate and asterisk anger from Mr Anonymous, and this week he’s turned his attentions to population, which I’m pretty shocked has not [...]

So Copenhagen is nearly upon us. As I’ve been chronicling in the past few weeks there is now a real debate. Those that were either holding back, were wary or were waiting have emerged to question either the science behind climate change or the current, potentially soon to be agreed, responses to it. So some [...]

So two weeks away from Copenhagen and environmentalism is finally sparking real and sustained argument. After nearly three years of writing this blog it feels like real dispute has finally come to the surface. After a period of cosy consensus that we “must act” sharing tips on curbing your carbon impact and sighing at pictures [...]

Is Twitter effectively now running my life? Well, from the events of this week the evidence is building up. From a tweet on the ubiquotous network on Wednesday morning by green PR lady Erica Grigg (@carbonoutreach or for non-Twitter fans her blog site) I gathered that scientist James Lovelock, inventor of the Gaia theory, was [...]

I sat in a Battersea church last night listening to an erudite sermon on the future of humanity from Lord Patten of Barnes. The former Tory party chairman fits the bill more as a wise pastor rather than a thrusting over-ambitious politician, but that doesn’t mean his sharpness of intellect and grasp of global issues [...]

The past week has seen a bout of navel gazing amongst probably the two crucial professions at the front end of dealing with energy use in buildings, namely architects and services engineers. In the architecture corner David Nixon, originally a founder of influential firm Future Systems, issued a rallying call to the profession to take [...]