My Boiler’s Older Than Some of These Green Towers
The boiler coughed again last night. One of those deep, metallic clunks that makes you hold your breath to see if it’s going to finish the cycle or die on the spot. It’s been doing that since I moved into this flat, and every time I hear it I wonder if tonight’s the night I […]
Looking Back at WSB14: Did Sustainable Building Deliver?
I didn’t go inside WSB14. Couldn’t afford it at the time, and honestly the idea of sitting through another PowerPoint about “resilient urban ecosystems” made my stomach knot. But I was in Barcelona that week in 2014, wandering with nowhere much to be, and you couldn’t miss it. Posters plastered across the metro, curling at […]