The Edge discusses the James Review

This week, I sat in on The Edge monthly meeting hosted by Robin Nicholson at our office. First on the agenda was the James (Schools Capital) Review which was hotly debated amongst the members. Although the call for POE was welcomed along with a National Database for the Condition of Schools ( work abandoned by the last government in 2005), the 10-15% target of energy reduction seemed wholly inadequate with no mention of CRC. Several members of the Edge sat on the Zero Carbon Schools Task Force which adopted Bill Bordass' mantra "Halve the demand, double the efficiency and halve the carbon in the supply and you are down to one eighth of the emissions" but Mr Gove has abandoned the whole ZC programme. So much for Osborne's promise to become the “greenest ever” Government. The Edge has a programme of debates coming up which are then published on the Edge website www.edgedebate.com The next is on the future of Research with the Carbon Trust on April 20th - speak to Robin if you are interested in going.