Building Sustainability: Recent Episodes
Jeffrey Hart
Interviews with designers, builders, makers, dreamers and doers. Exploring the wide world of sustainability in the built environment by talking to wonderful people who are doing excellent things.
I'm delighted to bring you a conversation with Alex Geldenhuys of New Dawn Traders - When I organised this recording, I thought the focus would be on the climate benefits of sailing vessels over conventional shipping methods. I was delighted to learn of the much deeper level of good this project is doing. By investing in the small producers who are connected to their land and doing best by it, not just for profit, but also for stewardship of this vital resource. New Dawn Traders have created a new way ensure the products you are buying are ethically and sustainably up to scratch. "NEW DAWN TRADERS is an experimental business. We trade in wild ideas and delicacies, working with sailing cargo vessels to import produce from across the Atlantic Ocean and along European coastlines pollution-free.Inspired by people, projects and businesses that promote resilience in local food systems, we have designed the Voyage COOP to apply this way of thinking to international trade. With our network of ships, producers and allies, we are building new models for supply chains that puts planet and people first.Through our products & events we are invigorating a new maritime culture around sail-powered cargo ships, the goods they carry & the communities they support. Our journey is a symbolic one, playing our part in the global movement to bringing food trade to a human scale & consumerism to a conscious level. In time we will add our own ship to the fleet!"Podcast LinksThe fair transport company - https://fairtransport.eu/Tres Hombres - https://fairtransport.eu/tres-hombres/Landworkers Alliance - https://landworkersalliance.org.uk/ The Open Food Network - https://www.openfoodnetwork.org.uk/Rose George TED talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/rose_george_inside_the_secret_shipping_industryEco Clipper - https://ecoclipper.org/Blue Schooner Company - https://blueschoonercompany.com/en/home/Sail Cargo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sailcargo/Thanks to our sponsor:Beavercraft Wood Tools Beavervcraft wood carving tools are great value and ideal for beginners and hobby carvers. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/buildingsustainability)
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.
Welcome to this first episode of Byte Size Building Sustainability.... BSBS? 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!
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.
This episode I'm talking with Caz Ingall, who is a willow coffin weaver. We talk, not just of the process of weaving a vessel to bury a loved one, but a lot to do with the disconnection our modern culture has with death and grief.
Today I'm talking with Alice and Gavin Munro from Full Grown about their exceptional work growing furniture from trees.