Julia Hailes MBE

Sustainability Pioneer

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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

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Baby care products (Jun11)

I first got involved in the debate about disposable nappies vs re-usables in the early 1990s. The comparisons were being made in eco-labelling research and I was sitting on the

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Incredible Edible was amazing (May11)

They’ve planted corn on the cob outside the police station. They’re lettuces in rose beds. And tomatoes on waste land.  There’s even vegetables planted by school children in the graveyard.  Incredible

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Eco-scrutiny of my Eco-renovation

My London flat must be the most rigorously scrutinised property on the planet – in terms of its eco-performance. I’ve spent the last few months researching and specifying what eco-renovations

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Eco-building expansion (Mar11)

When Ecobuild started 5 years ago less than 200 people attended. This year they were expecting 50,000 but over 80,000 had registered before the event had even started. I’m not

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