The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Mark Wakeford is a Director of the National Federation of Builders, Strategy Director of the Global Solar Council and Chair of the West Midlands Solar Taskforce. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain.
Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college.
The Building Podcast aims to provide 'CPD on the go'. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry!
The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Global warming and civil society – What are the impacts on us all?
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Lt. General Richard Nugee CB, CVO, CBE is one of the ten experts who present peer reviewed papers as part of the National Emergency Briefing. His experiences as a soldier inform his views on the implications of national security within the UK and his opinions carry weight. On this podcast Richard explains the purpose of the National Emergency briefing and the reasons why the film version is aimed at local group, to give them agency and the ability to come together as a community to identify ways to solve the problems.
Listen to this podcast to hear the consequences of failed farming around the world, the population movements that this will create and the pressure on all communities as “non-state actors” vie for control of dwindling resources and the consequences for the United Kingdom. Listen to hear Richard’s real world stories that demonstrated that consequences of global warming and the break-down of civil society.
Hear Richard’s call to arms for businesses to imagine life without fossil fuels and to assess their supply networks (not chains) and the resilience measures that they would develop if temperatures increased further, food and water became scarcer and rain was more intermittent and much heavier when it fell. Image the scenarios, but then recognise that action is needed now!
Listen to the podcast to understand why Richard is optimistic, and the opportunities that need to be grasped now to maintain this optimism.
Richard Nugee CB CVO CBE | LinkedIn
National Emergency Briefing: Overview | LinkedIn