Why aren’t restaurants more sustainable? (Oct11)
Bluefin tuna is one of the most endangered species on the planet but it’s still being served in London restaurants. Monkfish is not very sustainable either – if it’s on the menu, ask the restaurant about their sustainable fish policies The Hive Beach Cafe in Burton Bradstock is one of the first […]
Nappy recycling makes sense! (Oct11)Babycare
Bronwen Jameson and Paul Richardson from Knowaste The smell wasn’t very noticeable until I went into the building. Then it hit me like a wall. I remember from visiting a sewage farm that the trick is not to breathe through your nose. And after a few minutes it wasn’t quite so bad. My Knowaste […]
Inspiring E-Waste Company Leads on Re-use (Sept11)
Sean Feeney from EnvironCom standing on fridge foam bits Washing machines being tested I’m rather surprised to discover that there are quite a few people who don’t know what E-Waste is. I mentioned our E-Waste Campaign, when I was speaking to a large audience last week – and someone asked me to clarify. That […]
E bikes are brilliant (Sept11)
We’ve had great fun with our E-bikes. I’ve been lent a couple for the Summer holidays from Just E Bikes. One’s a mountain bike – Haibike – which my teenage boys like the best. And the other is a Koga, which I prefer because it’s more comfortable, although not quite as powerful. The bikes […]
We need more computer re-use (Aug11)
We travelled up to Arnos Grove – an area of London I’d never been to before. My companion was Melinda Watson, who has set up the E-Waste Campaign with me. We’d arranged to look round the office and depot of Computer Aid. The factory floor was piled high with computer parts – hard drives, circuit […]
Walking into Slovenia (Jul11)
We walked over the mountains from Italy into Slovenia. At the top the view was blue – we could see mountain ridges into the distance. No-one else was there. We didn’t come across any other walkers all day. The first person we saw was an elderly farmer scything grass in a meadow. The other striking […]
Haller in the Horn of Africa (Jul11)
I got a very encouraging email this week. It was from Louise Piper, director of Haller – an organisation I helped to set up nearly 10 years ago. As follows: “In light of the extensive media coverage on the drought faced in the Horn of Africa, and some very harrowing footage of barren landscapes in Northern […]
National Trust – Forever for Everyone Sustainable Business Workshop (Jul11)
What a brilliant slogan – Forever For Everyone. I was one of two outside speakers at the National Trust’s sustainability workshop, which was looking at how to make this slogan mean something across the whole organisation. Whilst the Trust has superb examples of sustainability in practice, they’re looking at what they might do across the whole […]
Interface Carpets – Tomorrow’s Natural Business (Jul11)
Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface Carpets radically changed his approach to business in 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawkens. I went to a workshop at Interface hosted by Andy Middleton from Tyf. Entitled ‘Tomorrow’s Natural Business’, the workshop aimed to show how biomimicry could be used as a template for creating organisations fit for a different […]
Writing for the Financial Times (Jun12)
I’ve started writing for FT House & Home. My first article, co-written with Fiona Harvey in March 2011 was about Feed in Tariffs. The second piece, published in June 2011 was ‘Eco-technologies at home – Electric Green‘ And the most recent article published on Saturday 21st April 2012, was about eco-renovating my London flat ‘It’s Not Easy Being […]
