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What is the one website you couldn鈥檛 live without?

I subscribe to the Guardian newspaper (). That鈥檚 my favourite website鈥� but I don鈥檛 read it enough. The one I couldn鈥檛 live without is probably National Rail Enquiries.

What is your favourite gadget?

Probably my iPod, but there鈥檚 a lot of rubbish on there. I have a Blackberry 鈥� that is really useful.

What鈥檚 the most useful website you access for your work?

If I鈥檓 doing sums, . If I鈥檓 writing proposals, . I spend a lot of time on government sites 鈥� DECC, CLG, Defra, Environment Agency 鈥� the stuff is never where I want it to be.

What was your last album download?

Kings of Leon, Only by the Night.

The subject of the last email you received?

Re: 鈥楾arget Zero logo鈥�. It relates to a project I am working on, looking at how you design zero carbon commercial buildings. There is a press launch coming up. Maybe you should come to the press launch and do a nice little feature!

Social networking or face-to-face?

Face to face. I do have a Facebook page but I think I鈥檓 too old for it really.

Who is your favourite blogger?

I don鈥檛 do much blogging myself but the guys in the office are 鈥渢apped in鈥�. They are often talking about and are also into 鈥淗ouse 2.0鈥�. [George] Monbiot does a good blog at .

The best link you鈥檝e been sent?

- it鈥檚 not good, it鈥檚 scary. Everybody should see it. I was so taken by it that I helped organise a viewing for our clients.

What was the last thing you bought online?

More trainers 鈥� it鈥檚 an inconvenient truth.

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Guests on the BSD blog site include Dave Cheshire of Faber Maunsell on the drive towards zero carbon, Cal Bailey from NG Bailey warning the industry not to slip on sustainability in the face of the recession, and Anna Exley of HSS Hire talking about the company鈥檚 commitment to sustainability.

We like feedback

A bsdlive.co.uk news story headlined 鈥淐limate change irreversible, says NOAA鈥� inspired our favourite feedback this month.

Mark Britton commented:
鈥淲hat has happened to the phrase 鈥済lobal warming鈥�? It now seems this isn鈥檛 happening鈥� scientists have shifted wording to avoid the use of the phrase, as it shoots down their theories and doomsday scenarios. Yes, climate change is happening, sure we dump lots of bad things in the atmosphere鈥� but are we the cause of climate change, remains to be seen鈥� of course the effects are irreversible by anything we do, if we don't cause it in the first place.鈥�

John Henderson added:
鈥淗ave you been watching Top Gear again, Mark?鈥�

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Postscript

Ben Smith is associate director at Sustainable Development Group, Faber Maunsell