Sustainababble
Keep it cool!
One of our passions is supporting the work of the Lewes Retrofit Forum (LRF). In this post, Deeper Green’s founder, Ian McKay summarises some key points from a talk for LRF with a focus on the energy efficiency upgrades you may need to do to your home to help ensure a successful heat pump installation.
Let’s get moving!
In this post, we celebrate a recent project which Deeper Green’s founder, Ian McKay has been involved with at a local campaigning organisation called Cycle Lewes.
In 2026 Ian, and a few like-minded colleagues within Cycle Lewes, decided to produce a series of posters advocating the health and well-being benefits of ‘active travel’ (walking, cycling and wheeling). With compelling statistics and engaging illustrations, the case is made for exploiting wider economic benefits through investment in active travel infrastructure and why a healthier and less sedate community can help us reduce pressures on our overstretched health and social care sectors.
Cosy home ❤️ heat pump
One of our passions is supporting the work of the Lewes Retrofit Forum (LRF). In this post, Deeper Green’s founder, Ian McKay summarises some key points from a talk for LRF with a focus on the energy efficiency upgrades you may need to do to your home to help ensure a successful heat pump installation.
The power of an image
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I have always found that nebulous and complex issues, which are difficult to convey in words, can be more easily and immediately grasped through the medium of a strong image. I am working on a book about our ‘existential predicament’ and the intention of this work is to combine strong communicative images with well researched and argued writing. In this post, I wanted to share some of the new illustrations I have been working on.
Lewes Home Retrofit Guide
Deeper Green are thrilled to have been involved in the making of this retrofit guide. We provided the illustrations and contributions to the text for this free download publication which was produced in conjunction with Nevill 2030 and the Lewes Climate Hub. The lead authors were Suzy Nelson and Ann Link.
Well, should I get a heat pump?
Ian McKay gives a talk for the Lewes Climate Hub looking in detail at some of the measures you might need to carry out to your property as well as outlines the pitfalls and opportunities of eco-retrofit and heat pump technologies.
The importance of ventilation
We need to breathe decent air in our homes. Unfortunately, many of us do not. In this article we look at why we need ventilation, what can go wrong when we do not have enough of it and some of the ways in which it can be provided.
Governance
To ensure we have a reliable trajectory towards a steady state existence on the planet, we need systems of governance which are fit for purpose in so far as they can create and maintain a framework for this momentous transition to take place. This new order and capability will have to tame the rapacious tendencies of free enterprise and kerb the misinformation potential of power-hungry candidates on the campaign trail. It will also have to win back confidence in the validity and fairness of the system itself.
Teleworking Cities of To-Morrow
An idea who's time has come
During the early stages of the Coronavirus lock-down, the RIBA Journal decided to launch a competition posing the question of how do we live with this virus going forward? The competition was called, 'Rethink: 2025 – Design for life after Covid-19'. In the run-up to launching Deeper Green, founder Ian McKay decided to dust off an idea he originally mooted in the late 1990's through his former practice, BBM Sustainable Design. In its original guise, the idea was known as the Comstation and it was an idea targeted at helping society reduce its dependancy on commuting with view to lowering carbon emissions. Twenty odd years on, it would appear society just was not ready for it. Perhaps with the enforced working from home regime of the first half of 2020, its time has come. In its updated format, now called The Node, the proposition thinks through issues around living with the Covid-19 pandemic.