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Southwark Council commissioned rehabdesign to produce a brochure to be used by council representatives when they attend conferences across the country. The document will be used to share best practice on community cohesion. Over the years Southwark has achieved much in making our communities stronger and more resilient. They are especially proud of their partnership work with their residents, the voluntary, community sector, the police, the PCT and local agencies.

Community cohesion means working towards a society in which there is a common vision and sense of belonging by all communities, a society in which the diversity of people’s backgrounds and circumstances is appreciated and valued, a society in which similar life opportunities are available to all and a society in which strong and positive relationships exist and continue to be developed in the workplace, in schools and in the wider community.

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We have just completed work on a site map for the new Brentwood Community Hospital.

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Edgar Muller is at the cutting edge of 3D street art, also known as pavement art. His creations transform everyday locations into fantastical scenes: sharks erupting from pavements, chasms bisecting suburban streets and rivers cascading through towns. Above Lava Burst transformed a typical German street into a scene from the apocalypse for the 30th anniversary of the international competition of street painters in Geldern.

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Happy new year and welcome to the International Year of the Potato

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rehabdesign have just completed another book for Quid Publishing. Ideal for any nature-lover or backyard biologist, What Shat That? is an original and insightful survey of the substance that, like it or not, unites every living creature, from your pet dog to the African elephant.

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A gigantic, life-like statue of a man swimming through the grass has been unveiled on the bank of the River Thames. The statue, complete with tattoo, was commissioned by The Discovery Channel to advertise its new reality show, London Ink.

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Google learnt that if they had a black screen, taking into account the huge number of page views, according to calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved. In response they created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle. It has the exact same functions as the white version, but with obviously lower energy consumption.

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

Google believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly they feel that seeing Blackle every time you load your web browser it reminds you that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.

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Since the Live Earth concert at the weekend, everything has changed. In the few days since the concert the environment has apparently regenerated up to 68% of the damage done by humans because of the sheer quality of the music played by the likes of David Gray, the Black Eyed Peas and Genesis. When Madonna played, the ozone layer hole actually sealed up, probably to keep the great music from leaking out into space! Most amazingly of all though, I woke up this morning to find 3 new fully grown trees in my back garden with a note from James Blunt which read,’I'm planting trees in your area for the environment, stay beautiful’. How good is that?

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As part of the local government performance framework, DEFRA have set up a number of National Indicators for local authorities. The London borough of Southwark must reduce carbon emissions by 8.5% by 2011.

rehabdesign have been commissioned by Southwark to design all communication materials for The Big Switch Off. The latest project has involved the design and production of a 3D house detailing where energy, and therefore money, can be saved around the home.

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