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Description
This lecture is about the journey to the Staff Sustainability Excellence Award, what Brenda did, why she did it, and why she continues to try to promote a different way of thinking about every day actions.
Speaker Bios
Brenda and Robert Vale are architects and academics who wrote their first book on sustainable design in 1975. Following their design of award-winning commercial buildings in the UK they built the UK’s first autonomous house in 1993 and the first zero-emissions settlement in 1998. They have received international awards, including those from the United Nations and European Solar Energy Society for their work. They developed the Australian government’s National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) which has now been put into operation. More recently they have been researching and writing on the ecological footprint and its relationship to the built environment, including a book on fair earth share ecological footprints with contributions from many of their former and existing postgraduate students.