Are you interested in these issues?
• Small is Beautiful: Micro design for contemporary living
• Sustainability Begins at Home: Eco self-building, sustainable
interiors and lifestyles – changing more than just rooms
• Force of Nature: Bionic building materials, biodiversity, biomimicry,
biofuels and bioenergy
• Less is More: Resource-efficient solutions for energy, water
and waste – from renewables, through rainwater, to recycling
• Bringing the Goods to Market: Green and ethical shopping, responsible
trading, sustainable procurement
All this and more in every issue of sustain', plus here on the website, soon revamped for Summer '08.
Calling
all Connectives!
At sustain', as many of you know, the mantra of the magazine, with
due acknowledgement to E M Forster, is:
"Only connect... " Connect:
• Issues with Issues;
• Issues with People; and
• People with People.
Issues with Issues? Connect the headline stories of Climate Change
with the practicalities of Building Regs and the impact of TVs left on standby.
Issues with People? Explain ethical sourcing of materials at a business
breakfast, or green specification to a seminar-room full of architects.
People with people? Upstream, downstream and peer-to-peer, facilitate
contact, dialogue, consultation, engagement and networking between parties
– with the kinds of individuals who are perhaps reading this at the very
same time as you, living and working physically miles apart, but intellectually,
creatively and commercially side-by-side – the social glue that helps
make joined-up activity a reality.
If Sustainability is a call for coherence, a call to connect, then who will
answer that call? The 'Connectives'.
These are the people who will become:
• the new mind-setters;
• the cultural shifters;
• the change-agents of Sustainability.
Wanted: joiners-up; counter-intuitive, meta-creative, left/right-brained thinkers;
a new species of conceptual bond merchant, the 'intellinktual'.
Calling the Connectives: Generation-S!
Business
& the Built Environment
The built environment represents the single most significant physical expression
of human social development on this planet. Its sustainable development is
fundamental to our future. The challenge for business and government lies
in making the link between these lofty principals and the blank page headed
Monday in your diary. sustain' magazine bridges that gap: as a bi-monthly
B2B publication, it is dedicated to ensuring that public-. private- and third-sector
decision-makers are kept fully up to date in the field of sustainable development.
Independent
and editorially driven, the magazine is supported by a 40-plus strong Editorial
Board drawn from across the spectrum of sustainable development, with those
represented ranging from: Land Securities and LloydsTSB, to Sainsbury's and
Solarcentury; from Biffa and Feilden Clegg Bradley, to The Carbon Neutral
Company and Taylor Woodrow.
The title will be of interest to people working in development, design and
construction; to those concerned with resource use, re-use and conservation,
waste and efficiency; to those with responsibility in areas of environmental
risk, social care and corporate governance. sustain' magazine is written
for joined-up readers: from architects to fund managers, from engineers to
conservationists, from contractors to climate-change consultants, from retailers
to policy-makers.
Sustainability
is the word; the word is our business.
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