Philobiblon

I spent half of yesterday at a conference on Sustainable Schools, which was as such things usually are a mixture of fascinating stuff and some very bad Powerpoint presentations.

One figure that really struck me: on the average building site 20 per cent of the goods delivered to the site go off it again as rubbish – usually straight into a skip and into landfill. That’s a good measure of our throwaway society, when you think about it.

Also interesting that schools consume a 15% of public sector energy and emit about 6% of all UK emissions – so trying to deal with their issues is not trivial, or a case of educating future generations about sustainability, although that’s certainly important.