How to decarbonise. It is not difficult and it will make you wealthy

Decarbonising is another word for rethinking how we use energy, but it is incomplete because it is only looking at one set of issues around the use of carbon. So as Lenin said, what is to be done? The monks said begin at the beginning! We use energy to keep warm, to move, to live. …

Space flight and the way of the rail

To get to the moon or the space station requires following a detailed step by step process with very carefully planned actions like docking and route planning. The way of the rail needs to follow identical step by step processes, but strangely the required level of detail is very often missing, things do not connect, …

Ecosystems Shelters and Societies March 1983

CONTENTS A) ECOSYSTEMS PREFACE APROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY AND RESOURCES - technological change, energy and resource availability, effects of practices - political, chemical, pollution, resource depletion, eco1ogical. ECOLOGY - RELATIONSHIPS AND RESOURCES relationships, environment, ecology as a science and a social science, human activity is ecological population and exponential growth ecological approaches - resources - passive …

The horse the human and inclusive design

Two mammals have entered a symbiotic partnership. They are both self energy seeking, self repairing and self reproducing but have found cooperation valuable. There are two main forms of cooperation, bare back and with the use of various tools or prostheses. The prostheses include seating, and controls also known as reins stirrups and saddles. The …

The Orrery revisited

George Clarke in Amazing Spaces has recently built an observatory and shown a building with a welsh dragon outside. Storage is a continual issue within structures, and solutions are directly limited because a fundamental part of how we build structures is to use straight lines meeting at right angles. This means we then build shelves …

The Ministry for the Future

Article 14 of the Paris Agreement says there shall be a periodic global stocktake. Article 16 4 says regular conferences shall make the decisions necessary to promote the Agreement's effective implementation, by establishing such subsidiary bodies as are deemed necessary for the implementation of the agreement. Article 18 Allows a permanent subsidiary body with permanent …

Enabling A Disabled Persons Mobility Service ​

 ​​​ A Disabled Persons’ Mobility Service is a direct riff on an older idea, the Disabled Persons Housing Service, with another dimension, of person- centred life planning and mapping of pathways. The social model of disability is not yet embedded in everything we do. Society is still extremely discriminatory and worse, although this has continually been …

Local Authority Councillors and LTN 120 – a summary of your responsibilities

All Local Authority Councillors have formal duties of care that their authorities are acting lawfully. The following are some suggested matters they should be considering. Are there detailed forensic digital audits and mapping available? Archaeological and related techniques are readily available to do this, Are they open source? Has the authority tested all its audit …

Logistics Audits

Newton. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Spinoza. Everything is connected Unknown. A chain is only as good as its weakest link. Businesses bring together people and stuff and do something to it. We have accountants and auditors to test if companies are using money effectively. Why do we not audit the processes …

The Art and Science of Excerpting

I am on a journey. I am still in the foothills and probably have not yet built a base camp. Am I climbing a mountain though? I have collected bits and pieces but haven’t yet built anything with them. What is that word? Once upon a time Plato discussed what is writing. We have spent …