Building Sustainability Podcast

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This week I'm joined by Flora Arbuthnott from www.plantsandcolour.co.uk.

Having met Flora a few years ago, I was keen for her to be a guest on the podcast. We discuss the many similarities between her practices of creating colour from plants and my practice of building homes, from plants. Flora also goes through the process of extracting some colour from a flower so that you can try it at home.   

Flora's Bio: I make dyes, inks, and paints out of plants for drawing, painting, printing, and dyeing textiles and paper. I explore wild and cultivated plants to produce a variety of vibrant colours. Observing and learning from the plants that grow around us, I came to this practice through a desire to connect with the land where I live. Plants such as meadowsweet and buddleia flowers, oak galls, and dock roots, or growing dye plants in my garden such as madder, woad, and coreopsis.

Links

• Building Sustainability Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/buildingsustainability
• Plants and colour - https://plantsandcolour.co.uk/
• Plants and colour Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/plants_and_colour/
• Emma Colville (Sculpture) - https://www.instagram.com/emmajeankemp/
• Spoon Carving course - Winterbourne Barn - https://www.winterbournebarn.org.uk/event/spoon-carving-workshop/

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Flo Hamer talks to us about women in the workshop, drawing on her personal experiences.

Flo was my guest on our most popular Building Sustainability episode - BS010 - Building a Tiny house  https://www.buildingsustainabilitypodcast.com/building-a-tiny-house-flo-hamer/
It's a real pleasure to have her back!

Links to badass women in workshops:

• Flo Hamer - https://www.instagram.com/flohamer/
• Emma Appleton - https://www.instagram.com/emma_builder_joiner/
• Kirsty Cassels - https://www.instagram.com/building_cassels/
• Indira Esser-Dunbar - https://www.instagram.com/indiraed/
• Amy Leak - https://www.instagram.com/woodmungler/
• Raleigh Klotzek - https://www.instagram.com/morganraleigh.c/
• Lydia Latham - https://www.instagram.com/lydia_latham/
• Maggie Jo - https://www.instagram.com/maggiejodesign/
• Danielle Rose Byrd - https://www.instagram.com/danielle_rose_byrd/
• Tammy Crawford-Rolt - https://www.instagram.com/tammycr/
• Lorna Singleton - https://www.instagram.com/lornaweavesoak/

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Martin Brown joins me to discuss how we can make regenerative buildings. We discuss Martin's 'Zoom Regenerative' which was alongside Building Sustainability in the ASBP 2021 Awards final. We also discuss The Living Building Challenge to find out what it is and how it works.

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Links

• Martin's website - https://fairsnape.com/
• Regen Notes (Newsletter) - https://fairsnape.substack.com/
• Building Sustainability Website - https://www.buildingsustainabilitypodcast.com/
• Zoom Regenerative - https://fairsnape.com/zoom-regen/
• Architects Declare - https://www.architectsdeclare.com/
• Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) - https://www.architectscan.org/
• Anthropocene Architecture School - https://linktr.ee/AnthropoceneArchitectureSchool (See also BS029 - https://www.buildingsustainabilitypodcast.com/the-rebel-architect-scott-mcaulay/)
• The London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI) - https://www.leti.london/
• Ayurvedic Architecture - http://www.vediccityplanning.com/
• RESTORE - https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA16114/#tabs|Name:overview
• Living Building Challenge - https://living-future.org/lbc/
• Living Building Challenge Standard - https://www2.living-future.org/LBC4.0?RD_Scheduler=LBC4
• Living Futures Institute - https://living-future.org/
• Cuerden Valley (UK Living building challenge) - https://asbp.org.uk/awards-shortlist/cuerden-valley-park-visitor-centre-and-cafe
• Bullitt centre Seattle - https://bullittcenter.org/
• RIBA Sustainability outcomes guide - https://www.architecture.com/knowledge-and-resources/resources-landing-page/sustainable-outcomes-guide

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This is part 2 of Rowland Keable of Earth Building UK & Ireland (EBUKI) & Rammed Earth Consulting giving us a byte size delve into the magic that is clay. 

Clay truly is a magic material and it continues to surprise me all the time. This substance that sticks to the soles of our boots that the peasants used to build with.... Surely we can do better than that as a building material? Well, as it turns out, this hugely versatile material is actually hugely beneficial for our health when we live around it. It's also readily available, reusable and can make up part of a highly efficient home. 

Hooray for clay! 

Now for the science bit... take it away Rowland!

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Chris Magwood not only has a huge wealth of experience building straw bale homes, but has the building science Masters degree to back up his experience.  We discuss how the built environment can go from being the worst offender for climate change, to every building being a carbon store, so actively reversing climate change. 

Links

• Chris Magwood website - https://www.chrismagwood.ca/
• Endeavour Centre website - https://endeavourcentre.org/
• Canada's Greenest Home - https://endeavourcentre.org/project/canadas-greenest-home/
• Living Building Challenge - https://living-future.org/lbc/
• Video showing waste water heat recovery - https://youtu.be/QuFF_U2YW3o?t=419
• Encyclopedia of sustainable materials - https://endeavourcentre.org/resources/sustainable-building-encyclopedia/
• Building Emissions Accounting for Materials (BEAM) - https://www.buildersforclimateaction.org/beam-calculator.html
• Low-Rise Buildings as a
  Climate Change Solution (Whitepaper) - https://www.buildersforclimateaction.org/whitepaper1.html
• University of Bath Embodied energy and carbon in construction - https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/embodied-energy-and-carbon-in-construction-materials
• Gramitherm (Grass insulation) - https://gramitherm.ch/?lang=en
• Lloyd Alter - Rename embodied carbon to upfront carbon - https://www.treehugger.com/lets-rename-embodied-carbon-upfront-carbon-emissions-4855487

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Rowland Keable of Earth Building UK & Ireland (EBUKI) & Rammed Earth Consulting gives us a byte size delve into the magic that is clay. 

Clay truly is a magic material and it continues to surprise me all the time. This substance that sticks to the soles of our boots that the peasants used to build with.... Surely we can do better than that as a building material? Well, as it turns out, this hugely versatile material is actually hugely beneficial for our health when we live around it. It's also readily available, reusable and can make up part of a highly efficient home. 

Hooray for clay! 

Now for the science bit... take it away Rowland!

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I'm very pleased to welcome Wibbs Coulson of Mandukya Yoga back on the podcast. This time we are talking about breathing, and how you've probably been breathing wrong your entire life! 

I occasionally feature episodes on what I call the 'sustainability of self' - I see it again and again, that professionals in the sustainability profession burn out. When you see the need to fix the problem as so crucial that the human race depends on it... you tend to forget about your own needs. So with this in mind, I wanted to look at how we are breathing, how we can be doing it so much better and what benefits that will have to our health. 

This episode came from a bout of anxiety I experienced at the end of 2020 and start of 2021. Anxiety is a relatively common thing in the UK, in 2013, there were 8.2 million cases of anxiety disorder recorded. 

I had heard that breath could help, so I got together with Wibbs to see what his work in that area could teach us. 

Links

• James Nester - Breath - https://tinyurl.com/2y88m7xo
• Wibbs Instagram
• Terra Byte MC bandcamp

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Welcome to this first episode of Byte Size Building Sustainability.... BSBS?

I have heard a lot that people sometimes find it hard to find a hour to listen to podcasts, so these byte size episodes will run to a maximum of 10 minutes. It means you can get a little nugget of sustainability ponderings from my wonderful guests.

Being as it's the first one, I thought I'd open the proceedings myself, with a little chat based on some advice I received from the Oregon based cob builder, Ianto Evans. I'm in the process of actioning that advice and there are some exciting changes going on for me! 

Links

• Tiny House Conference Discount Link 

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This week I am joined by Ben Kerslake from Carrington Lime.

As well as a general geek out about lime, we mostly talk about how to solve damp problems in homes with some simple observation and materials choices.

We discuss why the modern conventional approach of 'tanking' a building is usually fixing a symptom, rather than dealing with the problem.

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Links from Episode 42

• Breathability Info & Here
• More info about lime
• Peter Ward
• http://www.carringtonlime.co.uk/

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