‘The One Planet Life - A Blueprint for the Future’
David Thorpe
Available from Routledge
Paperback: £26.99
A significant book The One Planet Life has been published that is being billed as a successor to John Seymour’s ‘Self Sufficiency’, in that it comprehensively and practically tells people how to reduce their impact upon the environment. At the same time it is an appeal for governments and planners to have a new attitude to development, planning and land management to take into account the full environmental impact of human activities. Pooran Desai said: “This thought-provoking book summarises some of the approaches which can help us on the journey - so please read, learn, practise and share. There are many already on the journey and we can, together, cocreate a better future.”
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Research News
There are 2 new research papers now available on the Lammas website:
Connecting with the land, knowledge and skill at Tir y Gafel
Dawn Elizabeth Sheridan:
The focus of this dissertation is on the lives of residents at Tir y Gafel. It demonstrates that the residents are not concerned with economic development, in the same way as the Welsh Assembly and international community are but are concerned with creating a lifestyle that enables them to add to the resources within the environment that sustain their lives on the land.
Investigating the application of building regulations at Lammas
Ian McIver
This dissertation focuses on the application of Building Regulations to low impact construction with particular emphasis on the relevance of the Approved Documents to assist in the assessment of unconventional building techniques.
Following an initial investigation into a litigious dispute between Pembrokeshire County Council’s Building Control department and the residents of a Lammas, concern was raised that the Approved Documents were being misapplied to low impact construction.
The aim of the dissertation is to ascertain to what extent these claims and concerns are valid in order to establish if it was the approach to applying Building Regulations that is the cause of this dispute or whether a more fundamental incompatibility between the Building Regulations and low impact development exists.
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Opportunity in West Wales:
