So the famous five Tory leadership candidates are gradually being whittled down in a cross between the political equivalent of the Hunger Games and Love Island. One will emerge as our new Prime Minister and what do we know of their views on Climate change and the environment? So far, as we all bake in […]
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It is a startling truism that one of the biggest blocks to the UK reaching its obligations to achieve net zero carbon status by 2050, is the fact that almost all the UK’s 29 million homes will need to be retrofitted in order to meet it, according to a Committee on Climate Change report. Of […]
Key take-aways: The government said it would look to increase the UK’s current 14GW of solar capacity, which it said held the potential to grow five-fold by 2035. This was a little vague for my liking, it did not specify a precise target. if you can’t measure it…you can’t manage it. ‘Has the potential’ to […]
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Aug
Aug
The current government’s policy to build, build, build in a bid to reduce the housing shortage may be misplaced, so says a new report from leading think tank the ‘UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence’. The report’s authors, a consortium of 14 institutions which includes the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, claim that efforts to […]
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Jul
Jul
By the time you have read this sentence around 18,000 tweets will have been sent worldwide. In fact, on average, around 6,000 tweets are posted every second which corresponds to over 350,000 tweets sent per minute, 500 million tweets per day and around 200 billion tweets per year. Staggering, eh? Everyone is at it. When […]
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Jun
Jun
The number of women in politics has always been fairly small – around 5% of world leaders are women – but today even the power the few do hold now appears to be hanging in the balance. As we write, Angela Merkel and Theresa May are still clinging on to the two top spots in […]
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Jun
Jun
Dick Newby talks about a brilliant interview that shows up ignorance and lies of Brexit candidate. Link to the post here
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Jun
Jun
The latest output figures show Brexit is hitting construction hard, as projects get packed in the face of unpredictability around costs and demand Those working in the built environment are often compared to farmers, perceived as perpetually complaining about their lot. Cups are always half empty, and looking on the bright side is seen as […]
