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New research project launched today As a Certified Social Enterprise, we have a strong social and environmental purpose, and reinvest our profits into education and research. As we emerge from […]
VeloCity collaborators at Green Sky Thinking’s Live Magazine 2018 VeloCity collaborators are taking part in a discussion panel that will bring different views on social networks, in the upcoming Green […]
VeloCity chosen for Oxford to Cambridge growth competition: new concept village centres on walking and cycling We are delighted that the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has announced our ‘VeloCity’ team […]
On Wednesday evening, Milton Keynes council formally adopted the recommendations of the MK Futures 2050 Commission. In an unprecedented unanimous vote, the Commission’s vision for the future and 6 key […]
A week on from Green Sky Thinking 2016, Carrie Behar reflects on her experience of this year’s events. At the Useful Simple Trust we are passionate about blazing a trail […]
We are living in the urban age; by 2050 75% of the world’s population will live in cities. Useful Simple Projects’ Director of Sustainability Dan Epstein shares his thoughts on […]
Back sometime early in 2014, the UK Green Building Council approached us with the idea of hosting a conference on cities. This was to be a different to the usual […]
USP Director Dan Epstein has been appointed by the Mayor of London to be one of the new London Sustainable Development Commission (LSDC) Commissioners. The LSDC was established in 2002 to advise […]
Over the last 18 months I have been working with the research team at Grosvenor on a piece of work to evaluate the resilience of 50 major global cities. The […]
Over the weekend of March 22nd-23rd Useful Simple had the privilege of working with ODI, Nesta and Bristol City Council on a very well organised “Innovation and Creation Weekend”. We […]
At the beginning of February, I was hugely privileged to be invited on the Technology Strategy Board funded mission to the US to share best practice in relation to the […]
The Energy Problem The UK faces huge challenges in the area of energy with social, environmental and economic consequences at individual, city and national levels. We are in an energy […]
