Golden Years
The latest issue of sustain' is the celebration 50th 'Jubilee' issue.
Back in the days of summer, 1999, armed with a note of the Bruntland definition, the image of a three-legged stool and a fresh-faced passion for publishing, we launched what was then not just a new magazine, but the only UK publication for Sustainability, Business & the Built Environment.
Come 2008, now in its tenth year, the mag has seen more than a few changes...
Since the end of the last Millennium, we have witnessed a variety of (un)natural disasters Ð from Foot and Mouth to flooding Ð and are now on our fourth Secretary of State for Environment, with current incumbent Hilary Benn following in the carbon footprints of Michael Meacher, Margaret Beckett and David Miliband. We have noted (if not always mourned) the passing of old Government departments such as DETR, ODPM and the DTI, working extensively now with the relatively middle-aged DEFRA, plus new kids on the Whitehall block DCLG and DBERR.
In policy terms, business and industry has been subjected to the actions of a whole host of forces for change (some of them good) over the course of 50 issues: experiencing the to and fro of legislation and regulation, from Contaminated Land Part IIA, the WEEE Directive and the Water Bill, through PPG3 and the Merton Rule, to arrival of Building Regs Part L and, this year's model, the Code for Sustainable Homes; plus, responding to the push and pull of financial and fiscal levers, ranging from imposition and increase of such as the Landfill Tax and the Congestion Charge, to the emergence of the FTSE4Good and Emissions Trading.
Onwards, ever onwards then, we race deeper into the (known) unknown of the 21st Century. Times are undoubtedly tricky at present. There are clear and present economic dangers, to which all of society is urgently being asked to respond. A challenging environment calls for strength of character and conviction - in effect, it signals an opportunity to stand up for the principles of Sustainability,
Sustain' Magazine - Sustainability is the Word | the Word is our Business
Check out some of the comment and opinion received from leading players in the world of Sustainable Development and the extended family and friends of sustain' magazine by hitting the names below...
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William Sankey, Research & Editorial Director, The Ethical Company
Richard Cooper, Head of Corporate Responsibility, Public Policy & Regulation, Llloyds TSB
Dave Hampton - the carbon coach
Sonny Masero, Founding, SPONGE Sustainability Network
Dr David Strong, Chief Executive, Inbuilt Ltd
Steve Hunt, CSR Manager, Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd
Anna Scothern, Director, National Centre for Excellence in Housing
Roger Budgeon, Chairman, Greenshop Group
Tom Nash, Partner, Cherokee Investment Partnership Fund
Dr Paul Toyne, Head of Sustainability, Bovis Lend Lease
Lorna Walker, Lorna Walker Consulting
Philip Sellwood, Chief Executive, Energy Saving Trusts
Sue Welland, Founder & Creative Director, The CarbonNeutral Company
Dusty Gedge, founder livingroofs.org
Nick Wood-Dow, Deputy Chairman, The Environment Council & Director, Chelgate Environment
Noel Morrin, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Skanska AB
Charles Trevor, Managing Director, wood for good limited
Peter Latham, Chairman of James Latham PLC and PEFC UK
Richard Ogden, Chairman, buildoffsite
Ian Goodfellow, Partner, Penoyre and Prasad
Peter Clegg, Feilden Clegg Bradley
Stuart Barlow, Director of Sustainability & Technology, 3DReid