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Tuesday, 09 March 2010 |
 Despite a push for more sustainable lifestyles through green programmes such as those for energy efficiency a forthcoming special issue of the 'Building Research and Information' journal, researchers from the Carbon Reduction in Buildings (CaRB) Consortium present new evidence on how people use energy in buildings. It suggests that installing energy efficiency measures, such as double glazing, insulation and energy efficient boilers, seems to encourage householders to turn up the heat, leave the heating on for longer and heat more rooms.
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Friday, 05 March 2010 |
 Independent think-tank Reform Scotland has published a consultation document called Voluntary Power suggesting the role of the third sector in public service provision should be expanded. They claim the results of increased government control over, in particular, health and education have been disappointing and the great unwashed expect services comparable in quality to certain other nations (I think we all know who that means - those sinister types who want to exercise bend-control over our bananas and purloin our sovereignty). Reform Scotland reckon that greater independence, choice, flexibility, interaction and user-empowerment will drive up standards. The not-for-profit voluntary sector in particular is the logical agency of delivery to either provide or influence these outcomes.
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 As business might try to develop shareholder value the public sector can pursue a strategic Public Value management policy. In his seminal book Creating Public Value (1995) Mark H. Moore, of the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard, described Public Value as delivering services, achieving social outcomes and (crucially) maintaining the trust and legitimacy of an agency. In 2008 the Work Foundation published a paper by Colin Talbot exploring how this might be measured.
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 Yet again International delegates are poised to gather, this time in Bonn,
Germany as preliminary talks for November’s COP16 in Mexico will begin April 9 –
11. Officials will discuss how to build an effective agenda to accomplish what
Copenhagen could not: an internationally binding treaty with aims and methods to
keep climate change in check at 2 degrees Celsius increase and advance greater global sustainability.
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Monday, 01 March 2010 |
 All very unhelpful are the scandals surrounding the IPCC report, which
has fueled more scepticism over climate change science and damages any progress towards greater sustainability. Trouble began when a
misprint of a prediction about the Himalayan glaciers was found. The report
said the glaciers could melt by 2035 if climate change went unchecked, but it
should have stated 2350.
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