The Association for Environment Conscious Building

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I have just got back from the Annual Conference and AGM of the AECB at the University of Bradford where I met Adam1 once again. Did I meet any lurkers or any who's identity remains hidden I wonder!

This wonderful organisation consists of people who are at the forefront of sustainable building and renovation and sustainable energy provision and use. There are also those who wish to learn from them. Every year we have our conference at a venue which is of interest with sustainable buildings which can offer inspiration. We have two days of networking and workshops which also inspire and rejuvenate us in our travails against a system which supports mediocrity in the supply of new housing and workplaces. We can be ordinary people having ordinary conversations for two days instead of being seen as nerds talking boring and unintelligible gobbledegook.

The AECB needs more members, people who are interested in sustainable construction and renovation and renewable energy, who can support its battle with TPTB to improve standards of building in this country. We need people who want to spread the word that we have the technology now to build and renovate wonderful, sustainable, cheap to run, low energy buildings.

Anybody reading this who is interested can go to www.aecb.net for more information or PM Adam1 or me.

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We need people who want to spread the word that we have the technology now to build and renovate wonderful, sustainable, cheap to run, low energy buildings.

No, no, no, no, saving energy or other resources does not increase GDP,and that is all politicians are interested in.

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We have to convince politicians that the economists that they listen too are a bunch of tossers who don't know how the world actually runs and that energy is the basis of all activities and we are running out of the concentrated forms of that which have enabled all the economic growth that the world has suffered. Growth cannot continue for much longer because, like yeast, we are about to poison the bottle in which we live.