The Edge Debate

The Edge is a campaigning built and natural environment think tank and network. It is multi-disciplinary in a landscape remarkable for its abundance of single-discipline institutions. The Edge Debate is a process of thinking about how the built and natural environment could be better. It involves the ‘why’, ‘what’, and ‘where’ questions. WHERE are we headed as an economy, as a society and as a polity and does our built and natural environment help us or hinder us? WHAT can we afford to build with the ever-diminishing amounts of carbon to which we are entitled? WHY haven’t we been able to improve the built and natural environment in the ways we know we should have: such as energy performance, simplified building and planning regulations, inter-institutional working, appropriate R&D investment and dealing with waste?