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Ran Boydell

@ranboydell.bsky.social
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Australian architect working in Aus+UK, pioneer of sustainable homes, built environment research, posts on #climatechange #netzero #architecture #housing #ecoart #leadership “Capacity is a state of mind.” David Schwartz www.ecohus.net #allmyownwork

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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"the Kimberley used between 6 and 13 TJ/day for power generation" Silly question, but wouldn'd solar be better for that power generation? I mean, the Kimberley gets more solar gain than pretty much anywhere in the world. map (c) www.solarchoice.net.au
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
some great architectural shots on this music video by Micha @spotifylyrics.bsky.social open.spotify.com/track/4iHyRY...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just started 'values-based innovation management' by Breuer + Ludeke-Freund and appreciate their insights but saying this diagram "relates the key concepts" is giving a triangle 🔺️ way too much metaphysical value.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just started reading The Common Good Economy by @mazzucatom.bsky.social and didn't even finish the first paragraph before feeling compelled to share. We all need this message. It's only once the reality of climate change is genuinely taken to heart that change will happen.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The smaller second headline is more important: offshore wind is booming. Just give them more exploration licenses for the North Sea, it will make no meaningfull difference to #gas £ or #carbon unlikely to be fully developed. Just go hard + consistent on #renewables + #netzero
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Looks like Lilliput but the story line is more like Laputa.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social nails it as usual... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
But then again, the water level in the Thames is inevitably going to rise due to climate change, with a serious risk the Houses of Parliament will be flooded. So maybe the politicians should decant now to higher ground?
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's all gone quiet at the moment but refurbishment of the Houses of Parliament is desperately needed but the politicians keep procrastinating because of the multi billion £ cost. But I'm an architect and we always enjoy a good design challenge... 1/
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"As a society and as individuals, our behaviour often fails to acknowledge the real threat of climate change." Enuma Okoro @financialtimes.com
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Really disappointed for you, was lucky to go last year when a friend dragged me along, its a wonder of nature, the edge of the world.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Advancing climate action through strategic urban transformation at #LCAW26 hosted by ARUP + @c40cities.bsky.social
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Note to politicians: you can just do stuff regular people actually need and want and it’s OK
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Any visit to the 'Spiral Jetty' [Robert Smithson, 1970] took on the character of a pilgrimage... One had already given more assent to it before seeing it than a sculpture in a more accessible place would normally get." Robert Hughes
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
"Art discovers its true social use, not on the ideological plane, but by opening the passage from feeling to memory... for those who want to try." Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"Since Joseph wanted the project to be an art, as well as being an environmental project, he accompanied each tree with a basalt stone." mjsymuleski.com/artofthemooc...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"vanguard art seems to have lost its political role..." The shock of the new, Robert Hughes 1980 Hughes was incredibly insightful about the role of art+architecture in society - crafting words like a sculptor carves complex forms from lumpen stone - an underrecognised Australian on the world stage.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
#FirstDog spot on as always... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just because... (turn the volume on) Jerusalem Creek Falls in the Barrington Tops National Park near Dungog, NSW Australia
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"Invention and start-up have tended to get most of the attention here, by policy makers and scholars alike. That's a big mistake, because invention and start-up without scale-up is immaterial in today's world. Scale-up is ultimately what matters, and, especially, superscaling." Flyvbjerg et al.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
"While Americans and Europeans have been repeating, like a mantra, that China cannot innovate, China invented the largest and fastest production and construction machine in history, right under their noses." Flyvbjerg, Budzier + Christodoulou
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is one of the reasons why #nuclear is a BAD idea > bottom of the pile for cost overrun, out-competed only by the olympics Flyvbjerg, Budzier + Christodoulou papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
We have enough roadmaps to a sustainable built environment to get lost with. We don’t need another roadmap... Anyway, we are already on the road and have made some good progress; we just need to pick up speed and commit to breaking a few of the established “best practice” road rules.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
No country has a plan to decarbonise it's buildings
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"The Government will limit negative gearing to new builds from 1 July 2027, to focus tax support on new supply."
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
"Investors in new builds will be able to choose the 50 per cent CGT discount or the new arrangements."
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
But there is a LEGO set!
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This is why (most) countries separate church and politics. All religions inevitably end up with some extremists who do weird shit like this, it's human nature, sadly. Politics and the rule of law is meant to protect everyone else from them.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Apple at 50: the roots of a tech revolution - www.ft.com/content/0800... via @financialtimes.com
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Apple at 50: how Asia fuelled its rise to the top - www.ft.com/content/95fd... via @financialtimes.com
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
From The Magic of Thinking Big by David J Schwartz 1959
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
“I think China is using it in a very, very geopolitically savvy way, taking advantage of America’s stupidity and regression back into a petrostate. China just wins. America has abrogated the playing field.” Tim Buckley
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
"The plan proceeds without resistance, not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out." > a lot of #net-zero #climate-change planning has this same problem
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
(C) Joel Pett
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
My favourite portrait is this one by Clifton Pugh of Gough Whitlam, former Australian PM, it absolutely captures his personality despite the abstract composition. It's hanging in St Pauls College at Sydney Uni where Gough was a student.
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"Can you imagine if all these groups were connected?" Robyn Gulliver
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
We are in a 'poly-crisis' with many things going wrong. Robyn Gulliver
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
"People have to know there's an issue." Robyn Gulliver @smhaustralia.nzcow.com 14 Feb 2026
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
And to end on a positive note, the majority of people are betting on #EV being more than 30% of the new car market within 5 years...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Largest share of primary energy by 2030? You have to scroll right down to see renewables at 8% and wind on zero...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Will global warming pass 2C by 2050? Ouch, the crowd says yes...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The US meeting it's climate goals?
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Arctic sea ice this winter...
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Buildings account for nearly 1/3 final energy use globally and our houses are 70% of that. > we can't decarbonise PRIMARY energy supplies without also thinking about how our buildings dictate FINAL energy use
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Ran Boydell @ranboydell.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Great article about Mike Hewson in current edition of Winning Magazine... "To offer a glass of water in a gallery required a whole infrastructure: plumbing, drainage and waste systems... So we built it all."
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