Who is this young radical? - he's taking no prisoners

Greetings from the sweltering London night! Don't know about you, but it's been hard to get up to much over this weekend, the heat is oppressive. I'm pretty sure my brain has melted - but if I type very slowly I'm just about able to think...

But I promised this committed young man from Glasgow who is taking on the establishment that I would send word of his work out to you all - and I made that promise because the work is impressive and important.

He has started his own rebel architecture school "The Anthropocene Architecture School" to change the way architects, planners, councils and all of us think about construction in these times - and I've invited him to run a session for us in due course.

"All through university I learned all I could about building as sustainably as possible from materials that didn’t harm us or the Earth - writing my undergraduate dissertation on them - but could not get the fact that construction is known as the 40% industry (because of its share of carbon emissions ) out of my head, and it troubled me that it didn’t seem to alarm anyone teaching or learning alongside me, nor did feature often at all in our lectures."

But right now he needs our help, as he wants to invite some visiting professors and philosophers to his school, and to create a fund for them - so far it's all been on a shoestring and so he's set up a crowdfunder - it's so close to reaching its goal.

Me and Hilary have pledged our support - and if you'd like to have a look at what he's up to, read more and possibly back him, the link is here;