Open plan offices

I’ve been confused by a bunch of articles my friends have been quoting, which talk about how bad open plan work spaces are for productivity, and haven’t really understood their problem. I really love the noises that people in a group make.  As a 4 year old...

Weeding

A long time ago I set up a wiki for the company I was working for.  We used it to record our processes and included links to the documents we used every day.  It was really handy for Green Star references, but we also had a couple of fun pages including reviews of...

Woot! That’s my project!

Kathmandu have finally announced to the world that they’ve signed up for Green Star and now I can tell you (with bonus fizzes of sparklers and fireworks) that I’m their ESD consultant. It’s pretty exciting and has been for about 6 months as we did...

Bicycle Parking

This morning I lodged an objection to a planning application for a change of use to a gymnasium at my local shopping centre.  Wow!  The planning scheme only requires that the gym have 2 bike parking spaces for visitors and 2 for employees, even though the peak usage...

Transport privilege

I’m procrastinating about a fee proposal, so have a blog post instead; I live in the inner city.  I walk or ride a tricycle (my own) to do the local market and supermarket shopping (truthfully, my husband mostly does it).  I also ride the Food Know How tricycle...

Personal sustainability and back breaking fun

One of the reasons I began working for myself is that a full time job with a consultancy didn’t give me the time to work on all of the interesting projects that are out there in the world.  I like what I do, but I want to do other things too.  Here’s what...