‘THINKING GREEN’ Archives
GREEN HOLIDAY
INTERVIEW: JANET DICKINSON Still want to have a holiday, but want to do it in a eco-friendly way? Then dump the idea of rushing to your destination and go slow. Janet Dickinson is author of “Slow Travel and Tourism”.
CARBON BUSINESS
INTERVIEW: JANE BURSTON Carbon trading, carbon offsetting, buying and selling carbon – lots of possibilities but what do they mean? Jane Burston is from Carbon Retirement.
REDUCING FUEL CONSUMPTION
INTERVIEW: NEIL GREG If you want to be more environmentally friendly, but you can’t give up your car, there are still ways to reduce your fuel consumption, and therefore your CO2 emissions. Neil Greg is Director of Policy at the Institute of Advanced Motorists.
URBAN BIODIVERSITY
INTERVIEW: DAVE WAKELIN If we want to encourage biodiversity in our towns and cities is it a good idea to build on brown field sites? And if we do build on them can we encourage biodiversity onto the site. Dave Wakelin, Senior Sustainability Consultant at Hilson Moran.
NATURAL FIBRES
INTERVIEW: DR BRETT SUDDELL Natural fibres are becoming more and more common in very day items from cars to clothes to appliances. They can come from animals, from minerals and from plants and they have a wide rnge of environmental benefits according to Dr Brett Suddell from ADAS.
FERTILISER & THE ENVIRONMENT
INTERVIEW: PETE BLEZARD Every year we put millions of tonnes of fertiliser onto our soils and although it certainly helps plants to grow it is also damaging the environment. So why are these fossil fuel based nitrogen fertilisers such a problem? Pete Blezard is from Plant Impact Plc.
POPULATION AFTER 2050
INTERVIEW: PROF SIR DAVID KING Until the end of the 19th Century the earth’s population was relatively stable. We entered the 20th century with around 1.5 billion people. And although women were having a lot of babies the average survival rate was only 2.1 children per woman. But then conditions improved and Europe experienced a population [...]
MIRRORS IN THE DESERT
INTERVIEW: DR GERRY WOLF A large number of mirrors, in the desert, concentrating sunlight by focusing it all in place, can produce huge quantities of heat. This heat can then be used to heat water to produce steam which turns a turbine which produces electricity – from an entirely renewable resource. And its not science fiction, according to [...]
CARBON EMISSIONS
INTERVIEW: AUBREY MEYER We’re all being asked to cut our carbon emissions by a considerable amount, so how do we do that and keep it fair? Aubrey Meyer Director of the Global Commons Institute and he believes that Contraction and Convergence could hold the answer.
VEGAN ORGANIC FARMING
INTERVIEW: GRAHAM COLE The vegan organic movement is combining the concepts of organic and animal welfare and taking them to the next level. The idea is that all crops are grown not only using organic principles but also without any animal input – so no bone meal, blood or even manure is used. There are already 5 vegan organic registered [...]
