News - Sustainable Development
Key Scottish Environment Statistics 2010Scotland's Chief Statistician published Key Scottish Environment Statistics 2010 on 7 September. This web-only publication provides key data sets on the state of the environment in Scotland, with an emphasis on the trends over time wherever possible.
Published 07 September 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentFindhorn Event: Applied Systems Thinking for Community ResilienceApplied whole systems thinking can offer a creative response to the diverse and interconnected challenges posed by the sustainability transition.
Published 02 September 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentNew Report Highlights Need to Replace Urban TreesWith the number of trees in UK towns and cities in decline, a new report highlights the need to preserve adequate levels of tree coverage in urban areas, as well as providing advice on integrating trees into new building development and planning.
Published 31 August 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentDefra Publishes 'Sustainable Development Indicators 2010'The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has recently published 'Measuring progress: Sustainable development indicators 2010', which brings together an extensive range of economic, social and environmental indicators to provide a statistical overview of the UK’s progress on sustainable development.
Published 31 August 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentSSDF Event: Challenges for the Green EconomyRegistration is now open for the Scottish Sustainable Development Forum (SSDF) conference, 'Challenges for the Green Economy: From local experience to the Earth Summit', taking place on 21 September.
Published 23 August 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentNew Book: The Positive Deviant, Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse WorldPublished on 28 July, a new book by Founder Director of Forum for the Future, Sara Parkin, brings together sustainability knowledge with the leadership skills and tools to allow readers to 'build up their own sustainability-literate leadership personality'.
Published 17 August 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentConsumer Focus Scotland Report on Fuel PovertyA new report published on 6 August by Consumer Focus Scotland on fuel poverty says that a step change is needed now at Scottish and UK level if targets to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016 have any chance of being achieved.
Published 10 August 2010 in Sustainable Development‘Green Footstep’ Tool calculates CO2 emissions of a new-build or retrofitArchitects, engineers, developers, and others can now go online to see how they can make their building projects carbon neutral or zero-energy. Green Footstep, a carbon calculating tool recently developed by the Rocky Mountain Institute, can be used for new or retrofit building construction projects, from pre-design through occupancy, to assess a design's total carbon footprint due to site development, construction, and operation.
Published 02 August 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentBike hire scheme launched in LondonFriday 30 July, up to 6,000 bikes at 400 "docking stations" were set to debut as part of the launch of London Mayor Boris Johnson's much-anticipated Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.
Published 02 August 2010 in Sustainable DevelopmentSDC report links £70M of Government savings to sustainability measuresOn 22 July the Sustainable Development Commission (SDC) released its fifth annual watchdog report, finding that sustainability measures are saving the UK Government £60-70 million every year. The report, entitled 'Becoming the “Greenest Government Ever,”' measures progress against the Sustainable Operations on the Government Estate Targets from 2006 through 2009.
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