1. Lessons learned from One Planet Communities like BedZED show that large reductions in carbon footprint and improving ecological sustainability are only possible by creating an entire green lifestyle for residents.
2. Projects like BedZED and One Brighton found that sales, rentals, and resident satisfaction were higher than average, likely due to promoting a whole green lifestyle.
3. The best outcomes are achieved by thoroughly training all those involved, from residents to staff, on the principles of One Planet Living to fully embed those sustainability goals.
PowerPoint Presentations by the 6th grade students of 7th Primary School of Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece (School Year 2012-2013, English Teacher: Maria Papadaki) for the Environmental Programme entitled "Τσιμεντένιες πόλεις, πέτρινες ζωές" OR "Cities of cement, Lives of stone" in cooperation with the Greek teacher and the Arts teacher of the class. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is an environmentally friendly housing development in Hackbridge, London, England.
PowerPoint Presentations by the 6th grade students of 7th Primary School of Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece (School Year 2012-2013, English Teacher: Maria Papadaki) for the Environmental Programme entitled "Τσιμεντένιες πόλεις, πέτρινες ζωές" OR "Cities of cement, Lives of stone" in cooperation with the Greek teacher and the Arts teacher of the class. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is an environmentally friendly housing development in Hackbridge, London, England.
PowerPoint Presentations by the 6th grade students of 7th Primary School of Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece (School Year 2012-2013, English Teacher: Maria Papadaki) for the Environmental Programme entitled "Τσιμεντένιες πόλεις, πέτρινες ζωές" OR "Cities of cement, Lives of stone" in cooperation with the Greek teacher and the Arts teacher of the class. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is an environmentally friendly housing development in Hackbridge, London, England.
PowerPoint Presentations by the 6th grade students of 7th Primary School of Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece (School Year 2012-2013, English Teacher: Maria Papadaki) for the Environmental Programme entitled "Τσιμεντένιες πόλεις, πέτρινες ζωές" OR "Cities of cement, Lives of stone" in cooperation with the Greek teacher and the Arts teacher of the class. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is an environmentally friendly housing development in Hackbridge, London, England.
PowerPoint Presentations by the 6th grade students of 7th Primary School of Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece (School Year 2012-2013, English Teacher: Maria Papadaki) for the Environmental Programme entitled "Τσιμεντένιες πόλεις, πέτρινες ζωές" OR "Cities of cement, Lives of stone" in cooperation with the Greek teacher and the Arts teacher of the class. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is an environmentally friendly housing development in Hackbridge, London, England.
An overview presentation on the construction methods and materials for eco friendly homes; including making existing homes eco friendly. Created as part of a college project.
Science Vale UK energy event - energy and buildingsScience Vale UK
The Energy of Science Vale UK - 26 May 2011. Energy and Buildings presentation by Tim Fenn (Green Factory), Ian Pritchett (Lime Technology), Phil Shadbolt (Zeta). More details at www.sciencevale.com
Presentation held by Nirjat Subrat during oikos swissnex Practitioner Day 2011 @ IIM Bangalore, India, 26 August 2011.
http://www.oikos-international.org/academic/development/development-academy-2011/practitioner-day.html
Supporting sustainable livelihoods and food security through renewable biomass. Ideas Marketplace presentation from INBAR - The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. Presented at Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day 5 in Doha Qatar, 3 December 2012. http://www.agricultureday.org
Ideas Marketplace presentation from INBAR - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. Presented at Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day 5 in Doha Qatar, 3 December 2012. http://www.agricultureday.org
Presentation by Kealan Gell of the British Community Composting Network held at the biogas information seminar in Wageningen the Netherlands, 4 October 2009, organized by the Wageningen Environmental Platform & the Community Composting Network
PowerPoint Presentations by the 6th grade students of 7th Primary School of Palaio Faliro, Athens, Greece (School Year 2012-2013, English Teacher: Maria Papadaki) for the Environmental Programme entitled "Τσιμεντένιες πόλεις, πέτρινες ζωές" OR "Cities of cement, Lives of stone" in cooperation with the Greek teacher and the Arts teacher of the class. Beddington Zero Energy Development (BedZED) is an environmentally friendly housing development in Hackbridge, London, England.
An overview presentation on the construction methods and materials for eco friendly homes; including making existing homes eco friendly. Created as part of a college project.
Science Vale UK energy event - energy and buildingsScience Vale UK
The Energy of Science Vale UK - 26 May 2011. Energy and Buildings presentation by Tim Fenn (Green Factory), Ian Pritchett (Lime Technology), Phil Shadbolt (Zeta). More details at www.sciencevale.com
Presentation held by Nirjat Subrat during oikos swissnex Practitioner Day 2011 @ IIM Bangalore, India, 26 August 2011.
http://www.oikos-international.org/academic/development/development-academy-2011/practitioner-day.html
Supporting sustainable livelihoods and food security through renewable biomass. Ideas Marketplace presentation from INBAR - The International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. Presented at Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day 5 in Doha Qatar, 3 December 2012. http://www.agricultureday.org
Ideas Marketplace presentation from INBAR - International Network for Bamboo and Rattan. Presented at Agriculture, Landscapes and Livelihoods Day 5 in Doha Qatar, 3 December 2012. http://www.agricultureday.org
Presentation by Kealan Gell of the British Community Composting Network held at the biogas information seminar in Wageningen the Netherlands, 4 October 2009, organized by the Wageningen Environmental Platform & the Community Composting Network
Green seems to be the one area of the construction industry insulated from the downturn. Learn more about the biggest trend in the building and remodel industry in a fast paced, interesting seminar from an industry expert . Some great hands-on and DIY information.
Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy's manager Preben Maegaard is giving a speech about the decentralized nature of Thisted's energy succes. 100 % Sustainable renewable energy for the entire community.
Based on the example of Appleton Farms, America’s oldest working farm and a commercial- scale vegetable and dairy operation, we will present the farm’s detailed carbon-counting model, review the specific measures used to eliminate it’s carbon footprint and then facilitate an interactive discussion on ways to engage the public in sustainability.
NAGEEB (National Action for Green Energy Efficient Buildings) meeting UK 2016...Bernard Ammoun
This presentation will give you a good idea of the actual Carbon savings when constructing with Green material along with the cost of building a house in the UK using the recommended technologies
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
15. Reclaimed Structural Steel Nearly 100% of structural steel used was locally reclaimed
16. Recycled Materials recycled green glass sand for hard landscaping 1000 tonnes recycled crushed concrete 15% of all materials reclaimed or recycled, £4000 saving
17. Timber 83% of all timber was either reclaimed or FSC certified to come from well managed local forests 350m2 of reclaimed timber cost 14% less than using new timber
21. Living machine sewage treatment worked well technically but too expensive to run long term Look carefully at operating and maintenance costs Blackwater treatment
24. Indicative capital expenditure for savings tpa/person Capex per tonne (£) Green Transport 1.3 265 Wood-fired CHP 1.94 1,100 Appliances 0.17 2,800 Thermal saving 0.48 19,275 PV 0.04 23,150 Not to say we shouldn’t fit PV for example but we should understand the cost-benefit equations
40. Green features popular F eatures like roof top allotments and communal sky gardens proved very popular
41. Sense of place ‘ We were immediately drawn to One Brighton . Living here has not disappointed.’ Amy and Ruth Anslow – One Brighton residents
Editor's Notes
OPC is about creating better places to live evidence for example from BedZED that over 2/3rds of people report that they have a higher quality of life compared to where they lived previously Not about doing without or a ‘hairshirt’ existence – it is about how we will live in the 21 st century making the most of green technologies and the latest thinking in community development and placemaking
Concepts developed in 1997 as joint effort Bill Dunster Architects, Arup and BioRegional One Planet Living as an idea grew out of BioRegional’s monitoring of BedZED not everything has worked, but a lot has worked and many lessons learned was not financially successful (ultimately it was a prototype) but ‘2 nd generation’ projects like One Brighton have been built cost effectively
South facing residential units with conservatories North facing commercial units with skylights good to prevent office overheating Wind-driven ventilation cowls
Superinsulation has worked very well achieving Passivhaus levels Some overheating of sunspaces in summer – when have superinsulated building, passive solar gain for heating is less important
- Approximately half the electricity consumption of London average
Rainwater recycling worked well
Decommissioned and operates on demonstration membrane bioreactor operated by Thames Water Analysis shows conventional sewage treatment is a good environmental option anyway
Reduced parking from 160 to 100 Created car-free centre – Home Zone – where children can play safely and people can meet Introduced London’s first car club – now a London-wide network
- Gets close to One Planet footprint – recycles diligently, member of car club, buys local food
Steve still runs 2 cars so transport footprint large If lived in a conventional home would have 4 planet footprint Thinking of changing one of his cars to a low carbon vehcile which will save half a planet So choices will always be important ‘ hardware’ of sustainable infrastructure like energy, water, waste needs to be complement by ‘software’ of sustainable choices
Sense of community was valued most, 84% felt community facilities better than previous neighbourhoods, Residents know an average of 20 of their neighbours - local average is 8. People engaged in society are more likely to be happier and healthier (NHS, 2004)
Former Hewlett Packard data centre retrofitted with what was at the time California’s largest private PV array converted into a business centre and green incubator 650 jobs on-site - Will reuse a total 700,000 square feet of buildings creating a new town square
- New urbanist plan ensures every resident is no more than a five-minute walk to groceries, restaurants, day care and other amenities offering local, sustainable, and fair trade products and services. - Clustered around a new daily farmer's market Residential development will start when market improves - Will be sold with convenience of ‘5 minute living’ (commuting is often reported as the number cause of reducing quality of life)
Only when create sustainable lifestyle do we start getting the size of carbon savings we need - One Planet goes beyond conventional green rating systems as it looks at all impacts and absolute impacts, not just reducing carbon emissions
Backed by Quintain Estates and Development – London Stock Market listed company One Brighton built out in 50:50 joint venture with leading UK housebuilder, Crest Nicholson PLC 172 apartments and 2000m2 office and community space private car free – only car club and disabled-user spaces exceeds BedZED performance but within conventional over cost for city centre development of £ 190/sqft
Sales website not primarily about leading a green lifestyle Sold as high quality 21 st century lifestyle or which green living is one part hooks onto other trends – eg for local food which celeb chefs are telling us we should eat because it tastes better; and healthy living including walking and cycling more; and convenience of services such as the car club
Overall sold very well Smart modern apartments Whereas other development selling 1-2 apartments per week, we were selling 2-3 No green premium but increased sales velocity which is as valuable (as pay back bank loans quicker saving on interest payments) features like roof top allotments and communal sky gardens proved very popular
Charges comparable to other new home but green rather than brown Some customer resistance to high standing charge but low variable charge which is unconventional