Having missed a train-to-plane connection in Charles De Gaulle airport a couple of weeks ago I found myself with a few hours to spend near Paris. Rather than trudge around the city centre with my baggage I decided to visit Parc La Villette, which is closer to the airport and is a relaxing place to [...]

In an earlier post, I argued that the scope of ’sustainability’ extends beyond the dominant concerns of low carbon design and energy conservation and how we need to continuously commit to the core principles of sustainable development rather than allow a shallow linguistic fatigue persuade us to abandon the term, simply because we are tired [...]

One of my biggest regrets of 2008 was that I didn’t get to the Changing the Change conference held in Turin, last July. Apart from not being able to spend time in that wonderful city, I was disappointed to miss the opportunity to meet all those creative people who were there to talk about design [...]

There is a detectable ’sustainability fatigue’ in the built environment research community. For a growing number of researchers, sustainability is yesterday’s project. Sustainable development, sustainable design, Brundtland; they are all mainstream now. The research focus has shifted to new topics—such as exergy—or returned to familiar friends, such as energy conservation, now wearing the new clothes [...]