Category: circular-economy
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Brilliant Beehive Biochar and Barbequed Black Soldier Fly
My interactions with Biochar go back a long way, starting with a 2010 test run with EWB members building a Iwasaki style charcoal dust maker for Coed Hills Art Space. This was for a green tech day, and it straddled the line between representing fuel production from dry waste in Nepal and carbon sequestration in…
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Dry wall + wet soil = damp soil?
Dry wall, is of course the American name for plasterboard, but the pun fits the title so well I couldn’t resist. Do you know what else I can’t resist? Smashing interests together. In this case – clay chemistry, vegetable gardens, climate change mitigation and construction waste. More specifically – flocculation, drainage and plasterboard. The smashing…
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7 Net Zero Cardiff Stadium seed ideas.
In this post, I’ll set the context for a new Cardiff stadium Cardiff has a lot of stadiums (and they keep changing names). We have the huge Millennium/Principality Stadium, located in the city centre, by the river and Central Train Station. We have medium sized Cardiff City Stadium / Ninian Park, located a little further…
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The architecture of necrobricomancy
This post is inspired by the idea that when a building is demolished, quite a lot of it can, and possibly should be reclaimed and reused in new build construction. In particular, the more modular, energy dense and commonly used an element is, the stronger the argument for its reuse becomes. In the UK, top…