Confessions of a Radical Industrialist (Jan 11)
I’ve just finished reading Ray Anderson’s Confessions of a Radical Industrialist. It’s the inspirational story of how Ray turned his billion dollar company around to become one of the leading green corporations in the world. In 1994, when he had what he describes as an ‘epiphany’, he says that Interface was a company ‘so oil intensive you […]
Briefing paper on carbon footprinting and carbon labeling (Oct09)
Proctor & Gamble asked me to write a briefing paper on carbon footprinting, which I think is a good thing and carbon labeling which I don’t. There’s also a video of me talking about this issue. “Thanks for the excellent factsheet on carbon footprinting and labeling – it’s great work!” Ioannis Hatzopoulos, P&G – Dec08
M&S Packaging fact sheets for consumers (Dec08)
Public concern about over-packaging so often misses the point that we should be looking at how to reduce the environmental impact of producing, distributing, storing, selling and consuming food, rather than the amount of packaging waste we have to throw away. Consider the fact that overall the carbon emissions from wasted packaging is one tenth […]
Personal Carbon Allowances (May07)
In principle personal carbon allowances seem like a good idea. Everyone in the country would be allocated a certain amount of carbon that they could emit from their homes and for travel. If they exceed this limit they would have to pay someone else who has not used so much. This is called carbon trading. […]
Book fair, the Park and Chrome Radio (Apr07)
Earl’s Court Exhibition Centre is a nightmare. I went to the International Book Fair for a series of meetings with overseas publishers and agents. Had to queue about 5 times before finally getting to the right part. Even trickier was navigating between floors – it was surprisingly difficult to find the stairs. The whole set […]
