Category Archives: Sustainability

Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Energy, News, Sustainability

Winner of A Green Apple Built Environment Award

Posted on by Circular Ecology
Green Apple Award
27
Aug

We are delighted to announce Circular Ecology’s role in winning a Green Apple award for the Built Environment. Circular Ecology’s client New Sustainable Building Model Ltd (NSBM) entered the Green Apple Awards and competed against more than 200 other nominations in the Built Environment & Architectural Heritage category for 2015. NSBM are based in Cambridgeshire […]

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Carbon Footprint, News, Sustainability

Circular Ecology Interviewed for Sustainable Lens

Posted on by Circular Ecology
11
Jun

Circular Ecology’s Craig Jones was interviewed for Sustainable Lens, by Professor Samuel Mann, which is now available to listen to online.  Prof. Mann is a geographer working in computing and who has taught and researched at Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand since 1997, including five years as Head of Department. Sam has published over 150 conference and journal papers […]

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Blog, Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Energy, News, Sustainability

The Environmental Sustainability of Existing Buildings: Refurbish or Replace?

Posted on by Craig Jones
19
May

There comes a time in the life of every building where extensive refurbishment is required. For many a building this seems to bring with it thoughts of starting again – essentially to demolish and ‘rebuild’. The normal practice in modern times seems to be the preference to demolish and replace. Whereas conservationists naturally prefer to […]

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Blog, Buildings, Carbon Footprint, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Energy, Sustainability

The Carbon Footprint of Thatch

Posted on by Circular Ecology
Environmental Impact Thatch
17
Mar

On Saturday 21 March Dr Stephen Allen of Circular Ecology is giving a talk on the embodied carbon of building materials to the annual conference of the National Society of Master Thatchers. Steve will give an overview of carbon footprinting and what it can be used for, and illustrate this through the results of an […]

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Blog, Carbon Footprint, Energy, News, Sustainability

The Kyoto Protocol: Climate Change Success or Global Warming Failure?

Posted on by Circular Ecology
Climate change and global warming
04
Feb

In 1997 the Kyoto Protocol was born. It was the first international agreement of its kind, a revelation that would stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations in the climate to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. Flash floods, rising sea levels, record droughts and extreme weather would all to be resigned to the books of […]

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Guest Blog, Sustainability, Waste

Is Your Local Waste Responsible for Global Climate Change?

Posted on by Circular Ecology
11
Sep

Guest Blog by Erich Lawson Climate change has become a reality in today’s world. While many environmentalists are advocating green and sustainable energy, people are still not emphasizing enough on the hazards of reckless waste disposal and treatment. When waste is treated or makes it way to landfills, it emits greenhouse gases that have an […]

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Blog, Carbon Footprint, Circular Economy, Embodied Carbon, Energy, News, Sustainability, Uncategorized

Circular Economy: Recycling is Not the Benefit

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In less than 1 year 95% of the aluminium in a drink can will be permanently lost to landfill.
24
Jun

It’s that day of the week again. For the last 7 days you’ve recovered some of your plastic bottles, metal cans and glass jars, ready for the recycling man to take away. In fact, each and every year we recycle or compost over 200 kg of waste per person in the EU. So clearly recycling […]

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Carbon Footprint, Events, News, Sustainability

Sustainable Clothing Business Leaders’ Round Table: Update

Posted on by Circular Ecology
11
May

The European Commission estimates that clothing represents the fourth largest environmental footprint of EU consumption and that its impacts are significant over a range of environmental issues. So reducing the impacts of production, use and disposal of clothing is vital for tackling key environmental challenges, including climate change and freshwater scarcity and pollution. Dr Stephen […]

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Blog, Buildings, Construction, Embodied Carbon, Sustainability

Is embodied carbon getting the attention it deserves?

Posted on by Craig Jones
Green Construction
31
Mar

Embodied carbon has slowly been gaining attention, but it still lacks the recognition that it arguably deserves. It has been a poor understudy to operational carbon emissions, which traditionally grabs the headlines. But could this be about to change? Perhaps. April 7th to 11th is UK Green Building Council (UK GBC) ‘Embodied Carbon Week’, where […]

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Blog, Carbon Footprint, Embodied Carbon, Energy, Sustainability

Double or triple glazing? All pane and no gain?

Posted on by Craig Jones
21
Jan

Whether you are designing a new building, completing an extensive refurbishment or just looking to replace the windows in your home with more energy efficient windows then you will be offered the choice of double glazing or triple glazing. But is this a good environmental choice? Intuition tells us that triple glazing should have a […]

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