Chatting about our First Thursday post and our top read from South Devon College this week, plus the colours of the rainbow—including green, of course.

May is here and our new Green Edge Digest update is out. How do we do it?—listen in and we’ll tell you! Plus a great Green Skills Map that has just caught our eye.

Back from our Easter breather, we’re chatting about our special podcast episode on Clarion Housing Group this week. Next week—Digest update!

Britain’s 1,500 or so housing associations own and manage over 2.5 million homes. When it comes to retrofitting, they face—in bulk—exactly the kind of technical, social and financial challenges the country as a whole must navigate. But when they act at scale, they also hold one of the keys to solving at least some of these challenges.

In this special episode, we talk to Dave Bussey and Daniel Archard of the largest housing association in the UK, Clarion Housing Association.

Follow the conversation by clicking the Transcript button.

In an extended (slightly) episode of our weekly podcast, we focus on a recent keynote address by The Rt Hon Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, to The Institute for Government.

The whole speech with Q&A can be found here and the IFG’s flagship podcast Inside Briefing is here.

In a week that included both a Fool’s Day and a Liberation Day, we’ll avoid the obvious snide remarks and talk about our First Thursday post and the Circular Economy Taskforce instead.

We finally have the Project Willow report to talk about this week, huzzah! Plus a new funding package for construction skills, a new GCSE for Natural History, and a quick look at the Net Zero Council.

Following on from this week’s special podcast, a few further thoughts on just transition from ourselves and Prof Dave Reay. Plus new homes in Nottingham—solar, anyone?