Julia Hailes MBE

Sustainability Pioneer

Cut flowers and newsagents (May07)

The lady sitting next to me on the upper deck of a bus from Hammersmith to Oxford Circus was clutching a bunch of lilies with a very powerful perfume. She was taking them as a thank you to someone who had helped with her accounts. I couldn’t help commenting that the website for my book […]

Aga saga (May07)

Probably the issue that got most response in both my interview and serialisation of The New Green Consumer Guide in the Telegraph, was about the aga. On the one hand a number of people have been critical of me for being an aga owner and having the nerve to preach about green issues. I agree. […]

EU Bureacratic nightmare… (May07)

It’s been a long time since I’ve done any work for the EU. I hope it will be even longer before I do it again. Having agreed to speak at a conference on ‘Climate Change and Civil Society’ in Brussels, I felt I couldn’t back out. But the administration required to claim back the modicum […]