Move our beloved NHS landmark from the London Road to a grand rural location in Reading

EXCLUSIVE: Royal Berkshire Hospital reveals shock sell-off plan

Published: 24 Sep 2013 14:55

HEALTH bosses announced shock plans this week to sell off the iconic frontage of the Royal Berkshire Hospital – to turn it into a free secondary school.

Come back later for a news update.

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Can our iconic building turn into a state of art renewable energy building?

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More info here: http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/roundup/articles/2013/09/24/93414-exclusive-royal-berkshire-hospital-reveals-shock-selloff-plan/

Will Reading be the European Green Capital 2016?

Rdg CAN!:

– Have a well-established record of achieving high environmental objectives.

– Commit to ambitious goals for future environmental improvement and sustainable development.

– Inspire other cities through new ideas, best practices and experiences.

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Will your city be the European Green Capital 2016? The Commission has launched its search for the 2016 European Green Capital. The European Green Capital Award recognises cities that are at the forefront of environmentally-friendly urban living. The..

Read more here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-13-585_en.htm?goback=%2Egna_4704185%2Egde_4704185_member_252057251#%21

“Likes” for CCCRdg

CCCRdg has RECENTLY launched a new facebook page. This is a test to see how many likes we can receive over a MONTH locally from our businesses, the community, the Government, local government and education.

The purpose with this is as always to increase our contact area and to flag the green card.

Please “Like” us by visiting our facebook page https://www.facebook.com/CCCRdg
(Our milestone target is 3000 “Likes” for Berkshire, keep track on us)

All your connections are welcome to join the LinkedIn group – Climate Change Centre Reading

“Consider Climate Change in every action”~Climate Change Centre Reading

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Climate change: Challenges and solutions — University of Exeter — FutureLearn

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This course aims to explain the science of climate change, the risks it poses, and the solutions available to reduce those risks.

Join this course, Starts on 13 January, Duration: 8 weeks, 3 hours pw

Watch the trailer

ABOUT THE COURSE
The course is aimed at the level of students entering university, and seeks to provide an inter-disciplinary introduction to what is a broad field. It engages a number of experts from the University of Exeter and a number of partner organisations.

The course will set contemporary human-caused climate change within the context of past nature climate variability. Then it will take a risk communication approach, balancing the ‘bad news’ about climate change impacts on natural and human systems with the ‘good news’ about potential solutions. These solutions can help avoid the most dangerous climate changes and increase the resilience of societies and ecosystems to those climate changes that cannot be avoided.

EDUCATORS
Tim Lenton

No previous experience or qualifications required

via Climate change: Challenges and solutions — University of Exeter — FutureLearn.

Reading 2050: Revealing Reading’s Potential

Following our inaugural Reading 2050 networking event for young property professionals, this report examines Reading’s standing in the UK, areas where the town could be improved and ideas for development going forward.

Barton Willmore have compiled thoughts and ideas from the June networking event alongside some interesting statistics on Reading in the Reading 2050 Introductory Report.

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You can download the report here: http://www.bartonwillmore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/GA-Reading-research-doc-version-3D-low-res.pdf

 

Journalism and Climate Change: A conversation about this bad…faunkime.com

There are some big changes happening on the ol’ “Brace For Impact” blog and I thought I’d introduce them myself in my first ever “vlog!”  It’s a bit long, for which I apologize, but as they say: “If I’d had more time, I would have…

Tipping Point from Faun Kime on Vimeo.

UN-Water – Water Thematic Consultation report

This report is a result of sifting through and distilling the hundreds of contributions made in response to dozens of practical questions raised during the 6-months “World We Want” stakeholder consultation. Recommendations emerged for a new development framework that calls for reducing inequalities around water through rights-based approaches to service provision and governance. These approaches should integrate the management of water resources and wastewater, and improvements in water quality, requiring all sectors to break out of their narrow silos.

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Download the report here: The Post 2015 Water Thematic Consultation (69 pages)
http://www.unwater.org/downloads/Final9Aug2013_WATER_THEMATIC_CONSULTATION_REPORT.pdf

via Welcome to UN-Water.

Empire State Building

Future Research

After nine months of extensively studying and evaluating the Empire State Building, the project team has discovered several research topics that could help accelerate greater carbon savings across the U.S. and global existing commercial building stock.

The project team realizes many other groups and projects are attempting to address similar issues. To comment on your work in these areas, please email info@esbnyc.com, and we will update the research site accordingly.

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via Visit > Sustainability & Energy Efficiency > Process: Future Research | Empire State Building.

Science and Engineering for Sustainability: New One World Trade Center

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Panoramic view of new OWTC

Source: Architecturaldigest

Green building

OWTC incorporates not only new architectural and safety standards, but new environmental standards as well, setting a new level of social responsibility in urban design. According to the New York Port Authority, the OWTC has already been certified to LEED Gold and will set the global standard for sustainability. Once the building is fully operation, it’s expected to draw as much as 70 percent of its power from green energy. Some other green facts are:

Fuel cells, waste steam recycling, harvest rainwater, landscaping with more than 400 trees, waste material recycling,  use of green cement, renewable wind and hydro power energy, indoor air quality, daylighting, low water bathrooms, green port a potties

References and Further Reading

Green facts about New York’s new one world trade center

via Science and Engineering for Sustainability: New One World Trade Center.