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Comedy blogging part 2

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Here's a post from Richard Herring's blog that he read at at the comedy gig I attended last week that got me giggling. It's about yogurt.

Ecobuild: day 2

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Rather less frantic today. Caught up with Rob over at no2self about involvement at Think, as well as Alistair Gould from Helionix Designs, who have some interesting projects coming up. Rob introduced an interesting rule definition for what he's trying to achieve in his work - carbon, cost and comfort. So it's a combination and a compromise between the three. What's the point of creating a technically perfect low carbon building if the occupier doesn't like it or won't use it the way you want to?

Dunster video - Code 6 house costs 150K

Blogging comedy night

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As I highlighted in my last post I went along to a comedy gig devoted to blogging last night. It was part of the London Word Festival and the line-up include Richard Herring, Simon Munnery and Donal Coonan. The host for the night was a guy called Matthew Crosby, who has his own blog called Stand-up Geek. He kicked off the night by asking who in the audience had a blog. I gamely stuck my paw up but it all became rather awkward.

Ecobuild and beyond

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What I did today:
9am - Arrive at Earls Court with trusty video man Sam for a full day. First meeting with Building Sustainability columnist Jerry Yudelson in the entrance lobby (we can't get in yet). He looks remarkably perky for recently arriving from the US and we chat about his appearance at Think08. Quick video interview - he's a pro.

Virtual event

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Here's a new thing I'm working on - an virtual show called Sustainability Now. It will take place on 15 and 16 April and works a bit like an online conference. More information here. Interested in any thoughts on the content of the show, which will be programmed similarly to a live event, with seminars, audio, debates, surgeries etc. I'll be putting up the programme I'm working on later in the week. You can register for it for free here.

ZEDbook highlights part one

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I was kindly given a newly published publication called the ZEDbook, by one of the join authors Craig Simmons from Best Foot Forward after popping up to see the firm last Friday. One of his fellow authors is -given the book's title not surprisingly - Bill Dunster. Just got through the first couple of chapters and there's pretty stiff criticisms of developers going hell for leather to full zero carbon status. The words "reckless", "a ruse" and "stealing future reserves" are employed in the book.

Weekend Review 23 - 24 February

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The Independent bagged the scoop that all buildings will have to be zero carbon by 2020. Caroline Flint will apparently announce that the country will join France and the US to make plans for zero-carbon commercial buildings in just over a decade. Paul King of the UKGBC says the industry is ready to go and that several developers can go zero carbon pretty pronto. Dan Labad of Lend Lease said that waiting for the Government was a mistake.

Grand Designs craziness

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The Middle Class obsession with food and property TV shows continues apace. I consider myself firmly in said group, getting back just in time of an evening to catch up with the seemingly endless editions of Masterchef with those two shouty blokes crying out what a huge day/competition/challenge it will be that day. Last night there was a seemless sequeway into Grand Designs, where people you inevtiably become irritated with try to rebuild a Middle Aged church tower/divert a river and create a pastiche castle/dig a massive £300,000 hole and then plonk a German prefabricated modernist house in the middle of it. On a hill in Bath. With traditional stone cladding.

Solar video

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Genersys, a solar thermal outfit, have come to my attention of late. I've just secured their chief executive  Robert Kyriakides as a speaker at this year's Think event after reading an article he's written in the latest edition of Building Services Journal. Kyriakides is a fully paid up member of the web 2.0 club, having a blog and he's just sent me a link to a new YouTube page his firm has built, which looks neat. Surely inspiration for other firms to follow suit in getting their messages out?