Julia Hailes MBE

Sustainability Pioneer

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Food waste
Julia Hailes

M&S Plan A (Mar09)

M&S launched their Plan A scheme in 2006.  CEO, Stuart Rose heads the team and they have a very impressive list of actions and initiatives covering issues across the board

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Shopping Trauma (Feb09)

I don’t really like shopping – particularly when it entails actually going out of the house. I do most of my shopping on the internet. Earlier this week, I went

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BBC
Julia Hailes

Snow crash (Feb09)

I would have abandoned the idea of school if I hadn’t run out of oil. I’ve been lasting a year on one tank – and I lasted a bit too

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Carbon footprint
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Bee in my bonnet about fuel efficiency (Jan09)

Green expert Julia Hailes tries out an ‘environmentally friendly’ BMW. How does the new BMW perform as a green family car? I’ve got a bit of a bee in my bonnet about the fuel efficiency of cars. I can’t understand why they’re not a whole lot better than they are. Article originally written for Telegraph online.

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Conservation
Julia Hailes

Yo Sushi is Wasteful (Dec08)

It’s a shame there’s not a Yo Sushi at Waterloo because that’s my regular train station and I’m a fan. If I’m going through Paddington I often perch on one

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Carbon footprint
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Wasting heat through open doors (Nov08)

This week I had a meeting with the Carbon Trust, a government-funded organisation that helps businesses move towards a low carbon economy. They offer advice on saving energy, so I

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Media
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Quantumly awful (Nov08)

I’m not planning see a James Bond film again unless it’s radically different from Quantum of Solace. It was awful from beginning to end, starting with a car chase that

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