I’m trying to make my flat a SuperHome – a network of exemplar, old dwellings which have undergone an energy-efficiency retrofit. This means I have to improve its energy efficiency by over
There was a lot of talk about de-coupling. But they weren’t referring to what people get up to in laybys. It was a Unilever inspired session on sustainable consumption, which
Our boots, shoes and tennis rackets were all wet. They were stored underneath the hot water tank. When the boiler man came he said that it wasn’t actually the tank
This was the fourth Expert Advisory Panel on detergents and cleaning products and the second time for batteries. Held in Geneva, there were only a couple of us who had been at
The first meeting of the Fabric & Homecare expert advisory committee took place in March 2007, at a splendid location outside of Brussels. The idea is to provide an external
Procter & Gamble are printing 20,000 copies of their leaflet advising consumers on dishwashing – both by hand and by machine. I’ve written four pages in the leaflet on green
When people buy a dishwasher, they still hand wash many of their dishwashers – in fact they only reduce their use of washing up liquid by 25%. So when you’re
The Jeremy Vine Show wanted me to have a pair of scissors ready for my interview. The idea was to record me, Blue Peter style, cutting up my Christmas cards
“With her somewhat challenging lateral thinking and, ‘out of the box’ approach, Julia Hailes has brought to our audience and our industry the useful element of destabilisation it needed to
P&G are members of numerous trade associations. A couple of them asked me to speak at their annual conferences. In June 2008, AISE – the European Soaps & Detergents
