Posts Tagged ‘sustainability now’

Our latest virtual event Sustainability Now starts today. Having focused on international issues at the last one – which coincided with the Copenhagen conference – we’re now turning our attentions to more domestic matters. Not surprising given the unprecedented events in Whitehall in the past six days. So a variety of questions to consider. Here [...]

So what future then post tomorrow for the sustainable quangos? I’m thinking the main ones that you and I come up against regularly: the Carbon Trust, the Energy Saving Trust and WRAP. Climate change minister Ed Miliband pledged to keep the first two whilst on a green road show last Friday which I attended. The [...]

I presented yesterday on our virtual events story yesterday at the PPA conference. It’s a useful exercise to look back at now two year’s worth experience in this field: defining what we’ve achieved so far and the challenges that still lie ahead. In the third slide of the presentation I offered some crucial points that [...]

A quick heads up on a visual that may be of use ahead of tomorrow’s Sustainability Now. The first live text debate will focus on the global challenge for the construction industry. Present For the discussion will be Paul King , chief executive, UK Green Building council and Donna McIntire, program officer buildings & climate [...]

So got one virtual event out of the way last week. And all things considered it went pretty well. Invest UK was the first of its type: aimed at an audience which we were unsure would embrace what virtual events offer and focused on a topic area which again was new. The event was very [...]

So I’m in final training for another season of virtual events, which kicks off tomorrow. One of our biggest titles, Property Week, is running a show tomorrow and Wednesday called Invest UK. It’s a bit out of my comfort zone as it involves areas – property investment, occupiers etc. -that I have limited experience in. [...]

As technology continues to evolve and expand, for a content man such as myself it’s exciting to be presented with entirely new options for disseminating information. So it was with Sustainability Now, the virtual event I chaired earlier in the month. As with such ventures, and particularly in this case, one has to be flexible [...]

Less than a day to go until the Sustainability Now event. We’ve released an agenda for events that will take place, available on the Building site. I’m hoping for a mixture of free-form chat with more structured debates. Few things to highlight:

Legislation – Pooran Desai makes a strong case for decluttering green legislation in [...]

The second Sustainability Now virtual event will soon be upon us. The world has changed considerably since we ran the first one back in July of last year but I’m confident that appetite for content, discussion and debate on the issue of green building and design is still considerable. The success of Ecobuild back in [...]