Julia Hailes MBE

Sustainability Pioneer

Carbon Trust Winter Lecture (Jan08)

Putin apparently joked that ‘climate change is good for Russians because they won’t have to wear fur coats’. But listening to Dr Pachauri, Chairman of IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) wasn’t very funny. His Winter Lecture, hosted by the Carbon Trust, was held, rather incongruously at Claridges. The theme was ‘business response to climate […]

Save the rainforests (Jun07)

South American travels Cool Earth has really hit the news this week. So much so that when I went to look at their website it had crashed from too much interest. To me that’s really good news (the popularity of the site rather than the technical problems) because the main aim of Cool Earth is […]

Walking in the woods (Apr07)

I haven’t seen much of the sunny Spring weather over Easter but did manage a lovely walk on Lewesden Hill, outside Stoke Abbott in Dorset. Wonderful beech trees – and one of the had a rope for Connor (my eldest son) and his friend Josh to swing out over the trees. It looked quite scary. […]