Author: razi
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Massive Small Change
Read More →: Massive Small ChangeThe Engineers Without Borders UK Professional Network (EWB-UK PN) held their first conference on Saturday 22nd June. And what a conference it was. It was titled “Massive Small Change“, here is the hash tag for the live tweets #massivesmallchange. (Ignore Ianrosmarin’s individualised V3 promotions, it gets good afterwards.) If I had to summarise it I would say it was…
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2013 Sustania 100 – Part 1 Building Sector
Read More →: 2013 Sustania 100 – Part 1 Building SectorThis post is intended to be read alongside this publication. My impressions, thoughts and comments on the innovations in the 2013 Sustania 10o, an “annual guide to 100 innovative solutions from around the world that presents readily available projects, initiatives and technologies at the forefront of sustainable transformation.” Read their page first then come to me.…
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E.F. Schumacher on Natural Capital
Read More →: E.F. Schumacher on Natural CapitalTo press non-economic values into the framework of the economic calculus, economists use the method of cost/benefit analysis. This is generally though to be an enlightened and progressive development, as it is at least an attempt to take account of benefits which might otherwise be disregarded altogether. In fact, however, it is a procedure by…
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Devon Double Hexayurt
Read More →: Devon Double HexayurtEDIT: Link to Nick’s Blog One problem with categorising dates by the weekends i.e “First weekend in June” is you forget what other events approximate to it, such as a friend’s birthday. So where was I instead of reconnecting with old friends? In a field, in Devon, with a bunch of strangers. I will be vague with…
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Maths Triage
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/ TutoringRead More →: Maths TriageShould any experienced educator spot any mistakes in my methods please alert me to them. A latent dream to become an educator has taken great leaps forwards. With great luck I might be accepted onto teacher training course, despite losing many of my application slots (a grand total of 3) to schools that have yet…
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One a Day – 1
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Read More →: One a Day – 1Articles I’ve read in the past week. One for every day. Four Futures There are therefore four logical combinations of the two oppositions, resource abundance vs. scarcity and egalitarianism vs. hierarchy. To put things in somewhat vulgar-Marxist terms, the first axis dictates the economic base of the post-capitalist future, while the second pertains to the…
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World Future Energy Summit
Read More →: World Future Energy SummitI recently attended the World Future Energy Summit. I was unable to attend the conference but the visitors and speakers were prestigous, Wen Jiabao, Premier of People’s Republic of China, Francois Hollande, President of France, Christina Fernandez, President of Argentina, Hwang-sik, Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea, Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, President of the UN General Assembly and Ban Ki Moon UN Secretary…
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From the Bottom Up
Read More →: From the Bottom UpI had to answer some questions in an application recently. I thought the answers were blog worthy. Describe the world as it is. (a description of the status quo and context in which you will be working) Stresses to infrastructure arise when it is asked to supply more than it can deliver. Sometimes this is…
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Graphics for the new Hexayurt site
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/ HexayurtRead More →: Graphics for the new Hexayurt siteVinay asked to throw together some graphics for the updated hexayurt site. Whilst making them I discovered styles in sketchup. An incredibly cool tool. So I made him a gif showing 13 members of the hexayurt family and a banner concept piece.
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The Future We Deserve – Bootleg Oil
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Read More →: The Future We Deserve – Bootleg OilThe Future We Deserve a collaborative book project to create a vision of the future is finished and launched as of yesterday. I cannot describe how good the book is to read. Perhaps it has been best expressed by Vinay in the introduction. It is all available to read online, You can download the PDF or…