Eco-town status East Hampshire :: Whitehill Bordon awarded Eco-town status!

Keep your eye's and ear's open for UL eco-town announcements. Oxfordshire should be interesting news soon!

East Hampshire :: Whitehill Bordon awarded Eco-town status!: "The town is now set to become one of England's first Eco-towns and will show the rest of the world how to beat climate change."
http://www.whitehillbordon.com/

eco+eco=uncertainty needing clarity

Enlightment with the ECO reality is a must http://www.ipcc.ch/graphics/presentations.htm

Beyond stern http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/independent_reviews/stern_review_economics_climate_change/sternreview_index.cfm further enlightment by ECOnomics holds the key to the truth that will emerge in coming years about the answer to sustaining gaia and building the next economy.

At present there are still too many camps to be clear of the outcome(s) but progres is progress.
Agrigation and consolidation of these camps likes market is the direction or travel which cant happen fast enough. Lets get the thought and action of everyone focused, not just the vested interests of vocal experts action groups or lobbyest. The power of common sense and debate across different perspectives is exciting.

UK: vision for the future of Bicester - NW Bicester Eco-development

Home - A vision for the future of Bicester - NW Bicester Eco-development

http://www.cherwell-dc.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=4514

The UK will begin to realise what ecotowns mean for the people who live there and for those that dont.
Challenges and opportunities galore and of course my interest is via http://www.eco2h2o.com/

Home - A vision for the future of Bicester - NW Bicester Eco-development

Show me the money: How to finance your eco start-up - Part 1 - Times Online

Show me the money: How to finance your eco start-up - Part 1 - Times Online

some good stuff in here with many more useful links as well!

...like http://www.environmentalinvest.com/

Wilson Solar Grill Stores the Sun's Energy For Nighttime Grilling | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Wilson Solar Grill Stores the Sun's Energy For Nighttime Grilling | Inhabitat - Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - What makes an eco-town?

EUKN - European Urban Knowledge Network - What makes an eco-town?

Digging thru the archive

Within this blog of the past 5 or 6 years there are still some gems you might not see from a flick or scroll through, so feel free to use the search box above which with terms like these below will deliver selected articles:

Economic http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=economic

Entrepreneur http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=entrepreneur
Eco http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=eco
GAIA http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/searchh?q=gaia
Social http://nickhorslen.blogspot.com/search?q=social

etc
etc

If you click on any of these links it will return this article but with a list of different articles below it, scroll down now....

Please post comments if the blog proves interesting!

2008 is calling.............

Wow 2007 flew by didnt it!

What were the highlights for you?

For me community healthcare, High Growth Entrepreneurial coaching and "triple bottom line sustainability" and further developments in web2.0 social computing. This includes the growing lead towards a dominant domain like http://www.facebook.com/ All in the face of the incumbents.

More precisely Im very focused in on eco innovation and entrepreneurship and doing my small part for these companies I know:

http://www.greencarbonplc.com/
http://www.fluvial-innovations.co.uk/
(note visit my archive on the RHS)

Before doing a wrap upo for the year as ive done for the last four years here's a couple of quick and interesting links to think about:

http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2007/11/05/43112/sustainability-taking-a-responsible-view-to-improve-employer-brand-and-staff.html

http://www.enterprisehubnetwork.co.uk/magazine-article.php?id=79http://www.enterprisehubnetwork.co.uk/hub-magazine.php

http://www.ethicalcorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5561&newsletter=24

Still a little time for one more post before 2008, thats next week!

UK joins laser nuclear fusion project

BBC News - UK joins laser nuclear fusion project

Fusion is the answer to off set the lack of understanding of fission both are key to our energy and environmental concerns of the future.

2011, 12 and 13 could be monunmental in changing the geo-eco-political power behind energy and markets, discuss?

UK joins laser nuclear fusion project

BBC News - UK joins laser nuclear fusion project

Fusion is the answer to off set the lack of understanding of fission both are key to our energy and environmental concerns of the future.

2011, 12 and 13 could be monunmental in changing the geo-eco-political power behind energy and markets, discuss?

Sustainable Innovation 08 - a structure well worth plugging!

Worth a read for thought leadership, insight and focus. Next years event is promoted as this years kicks off http://www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd12/index.html

EXCUSE CROSS-POSTINGS
Sustainable Innovation 08
Future Products, Technologies and Industries
27th - 28th October 2008
Malmo
Sweden

Organised by: The Centre for Sustainable Design
Sponsored by: The City of Malmo
Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences

Background:Sustainability is a global imperative. Climate change is now 'top of mind' with widespread daily media coverage, stakeholder consensus on the science, highlighting of the economics by the Stern Review, and Al Gore's recent Oscar and Nobel Prize. This is leading to growing discussion over the need for a transformation towards low carbon economies and technologies. Coupled to this there are increasing pressures for significantly leaps in resource productivity and a movement to 'closed loop' solutions.

A recent book 'The Clean Tech Revolution' highlights a range of drivers for innovation:

* Costs: increasing price of oil
* Capital: growing investment flows
* China: massive energy and resource pressures
* Customers: significant consumer interest Opportunities are starting to emerge.

The market for sustainable technologies has been projected to be worth $800 billion by 2015. However, this figure undervalues the market as it does not account for the growing integration of renewable materials and alternative energy generation into products, technologies and buildings. Areas that will see significant growth include wind, solar, biomaterials, bio-energies, green buildings, sustainable mobility, smart grids, water filtration, and energy monitoring products and technologies.The clarion call is for innovation, innovation, innovation - short, medium and long-term. However, what do future sustainable products, technologies and industries look like?

Sustainable Innovation 08 will address this imperative with new visions, thinking and solutions.ConceptSustainable Innovation 08 will provide a platform to discuss in the future opportunities and challenges related to sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. Sustainable Innovation 08 will include invited and refereed papers from academics, consultants, entrepreneurs, investors, technology providers,designers, sustainability, environment and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) managers as well as other business functions. The event will be a unique learning experience, networking space and an opportunity to think or even jump 'out of the box'.

Delegates will come globally from large companies, entrepreneurs, as well asacademia, government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The conference is supported by an international Advisory Board.Conference topicsSustainable Innovation 08 welcomes conceptual and research-based papers covering future solutions and thinking related to sustainable innovation, technology, product and service design and development. Papers focused on sustainable innovation related to the following topics are welcomed:

* Radical change
* Market transformation
* Sustainable Consumption & Production
* Low carbon economy
* Regional approaches
* Product policy
* Sustainable public procurement
* New business models
* Collaborations and partnerships
* Sustainable technologies
* Innovation processes
* Eco-entrepreneurship
* Supply chain management
* Product-service-systems (PSS)
* Management systems
* Organisational dimensions
* Case studiesBenefitsSustainable Innovation 08 will provide a range of benefits to speakers and delegates:
* Unique: forum for new ideas and concepts
* Leading-edge: presentations from key international researchers, practioners and policy-makers
* Content: new research, results and thinking
* Networking: opportunities to meet business, government and academia
* Track-record: over 1400 delegates from over 40 countries have attended previous 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' conferences

Submission detailsConference papers: please email, fax or post 500 words describing your proposed paper by 3rd March 2008. The paper will then be sent to the Advisory Board for evaluation and authors will be given feedback by the end of April 2008. The highest rated papers will be invited to present at the conference. Please only submit abstracts if you have budgets to attend the conference.

Contact
For more information on Sustainable Innovation 08 please contact: Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University College for the Creative Arts, UK Tel: + 00 44 (0) 1252 892772 Fax: + 00 44 (0) 1252-892747 Email: mcharter@ucreative.ac.uk Website: http://www.cfsd.org.uk/

Next generation workforce

The smartest of the new arrivals have one thing on their mind:

Business and the economy in the context of sustainability!

Sustainable in terms of its impact on people and the planet, sustainable in terms of it makes sense "not to choose" the unsustainable AND sustainable in terms of the transition through necessary compliance and ethics and onto innovation where the new market entrants will grow from.

There is so much out there if you just google for it, be that a sustainable search, an ethic search, and eco search and a social enterprise search, even within my past posts there is plenty thats old thats still new.

Think about it!
Be inspired by some of the bright you people wanting to have a go:
http://www.betheinvestor.com/ sign in and watch Priya, Floodstop or Social design concepts for the standby energy saver.

http://www.socialconcepts.co.uk/
http://www.fluvial-innovations.co.uk/floodstop.html

from student entrepreneuring to corp and acedemia the next big wave is happening, dont ride the change, be the change;
http://www.flyingstart-ncge.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=42
http://www.kauffman.org/

http://ncge.com/communities/education/events/showevent/234

http://www.cfsd.org.uk/
http://www.henleymc.ac.uk/henleymc03.nsf/pages/sp_leadingsustainably

Working the new with the old, business with the community, mgmt schools and academia, thats sustainable. Many more links below and in the archive. Enjoy!

Every home should have one - eco no brainer!

http://www.electrisave.co.uk/pages/about_us/what
A nice nifty little device anyone can clip on and connect and it costs a mere few pounds. Even my kids now watch to see the KW, cost per hour and tonnes per year as they switch on and switch off devices. It works!

Mega cities, Charter Cities!! Climate - Smart Urbanisation

This connected to the charter cities posts ive done before going back to about 2009 is a very interesting angle on this development. International development and children in the context of eco and construction industry interests. Childrens Investment Fund Foundation CIFF:

Climate - Smart Urbanisation » CIFF

The problem

The world is rapidly urbanising. By 2050, 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. Cities with more than ten million inhabitants - megacities - are forecast to double in number by 2030. Megacities create significant greenhouse

gas emissions, comparable to those of large countries, and are wasteful of resources. If emerging megacities follow the current pattern of urban development, citizens will be locked in to carbon and resource intensive lifestyles.

The transformation we want to see

Emerging megacities are low carbon and resource efficient by 2030.

The impact we seek

The adoption of climate-smart principles in urban planning, transportation, waste and air quality management systems by megacities in Latin America and China.

How we'll measure impact

• 1 The percentage of megacities with integrated transport and urban planning strategies
• 2 The number of megacities with development plans based on climate-smart principles
• 3 The proportion of megacities with integrated waste management plans
• 4 The percentage of megacities with world-class air quality management systems