Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)

They have no front door.

I am doing this course on Construction, paid for by the DWP, who have a programme specifically designed to get homeless and people at risk of homelessness, into the construction workforce. This is not working for "a man and a van laying patios" it's to get people working for the big contractors who do these city-centre renovation projects. When I heard that I immediately thought of this building in St. Andrew's street for the very grand-sounding Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), so I checked their web site and I found out that The Built Environment is a thing. What sort of thing? It turns out it's the sort of thing that landowners, property developers, investors, town planners and building contractors do!

On that page I found this text:

Who we work with and why

Our multi-stakeholder approach engages influential individuals alongside businesses, governments, financial institutions and civil society representatives, focusing on their shared potential to rewire economic, social and environmental systems.

They have no plans to rewire the Built Environment thing though, because that's their source of funding, I guess. Or is it just that that's what civil society is?

See https://www.cisl.cam.ac.uk/education/graduate-study/idbe/sustainability-leadership-built-environment.

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