MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS

Telegraph:  6 part serialisation of The New Green Consumer Guide in May 2007, I wrote my blog for the Telegraph for several months and now write regular features primarily for Earth Telegraph.

Guardian:  Interviewed and wrote articles on green students and eco-renovation.

ITV News:  Judging Eco-heroes alongside Anita Roddick and Jeremy Leggett.

Gay Times:  Wrote a feature article including interviews with Peter Tatchell and Paul O-Grady.

Woman's Hour: My guide to greening your home was on six programmes between October 2007 and January 2008. 

Radio 5 Live:  Regular contributor to Radio 5 Live - most recently in a phone-in discussion on the perils of bottled water.

Podcasts:  I've recorded a number of podcasts which you can listen to. 

TELEGRAPH

The Telegraph serialised The New Green Consumer Guide over 6 days - see below.  And click here for links to recent articles I have written for Telegraph online.  

Weekend Telegraph -  Does your family pass the green test? (12may07)
Aga-owner Julia Hailes believes we all need to be more energy efficient reports Sandy Mitchell……

Telegraph – How to run a green home (part 1) (14may07)
The best green cleaning products      Washing, cooking and freezing      My top ten eco-gifts
       Nappies: reusable or disposable?      Should we believe the plastic bag bores?

Telegraph – How to save energy at home (part 2) (15may07)
  Insulation      Electricity      Home renewable energy      Greenhouse gas meter    Standby or turn off?        Making the switch        The great British battery scandal   

Telegraph – How to pick a supermarket (part 3) (16may07)
Food miles and seasonality      Pesticide residues and organics      Packaging and waste     Meat and poultry      Fish      Energy and climate change      10 resons to eat less meat      10 worst food-mile products    

Telegraph – How to be a green traveller  (part 4) (17may07)
If you really have to buy a new car      Which fuel technology is the greenest?     Least polluting cars
Top tips for eco-drivers   

How to live the green life (part 5) (18may07)
Is green the new black?       Green investment      Do's and don't's      10 green death tips   

Recent articles in Guardian Unlimited include: 

• An interview with me - 'I'm always learning new things about being green: It's 20 years since Julia Hailes co-wrote the Green Consumer Guide with fellow eco enthusiast John Elkington - a book which sold more than 1m copies around the world. After two decades of campaigning, this month she publishes a new version of the guide. I asked her how things have changed since the first publication - in the wider world, and her own life........ (23may07)
  
  
• Study in Green:  The typical student lifestyle isn't exactly eco-friendly, writes the New Green Consumer Guide's Julia Hailes, but universities are changing for the better. (21may07)
  
  
• Renovation Battle:  She may have written books about being green, but Julia Hailes found making her home environmentally sound wasn't quite as easy as she expected (22may07)
  

The Mail

• Why paper is not the answer to plastics - a short piece, including quotes from me about plastics vs paper.  Unfortunately it is not strictly accurate.  You may notice that the author says that paper bags take 6 times more energy to make and then quotes me as saying that the same amount of oil is needed to make a paper bag as a plastic ones.  
  
• Interview and article coming in the Weekend Mail - due on 15th March 2008.. 
  

The Times

• An article written by me:   Green green class of home - It does not cost much to eco-renovate your home and still keep the style. (18feb06)

Financial Times

Article covering my trip to Naples advising McDonalds: The Way We Live Now - Chips and Peace 

"First Ian Paisley and Gerry Adams. Now Julia Hailes and McDonald's. Hailes - co-author back in 1988 of The Green Consumer Guide, a book that has sold a million copies worldwide but nearly drew a lawsuit from the hamburger chain - was yesterday giving a pep talk to its senior European management team in her guise as an environmental consultant......."

Local Papers

• Western Daily Press - one page feature:  Julia Hailes has dedicated most of her adult life to helping the environment but Mervyn Hancock discovers that she has had more than a few adventures on the road to a brilliant writing career...... (4aug07)
  
• Western Gazette - one page feature:  Author urges others to help reduce waste.  Alison Butts talks to a soman who is working to make a positive difference in the fight against climate change.  (14feb08)  
  

GREEN FUTURES

Q: What’s in your wallet? A: Power...

GAY TIMES
I interviewed three prominent gay men for the Gay Times Eco Issue in September 2007 -  Peter Tatchell (campaigner), Paul O'Grady (comedian) and Kristian Digby (TV presenter).

  
Paul O-Grady and Peter Tatchell

At the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008 Woman's Hour ran a series of interviews with me about greening your home.  If you click on the links below you'll be able to listen to them - they're about 10 minutes each.

• Recycling 
  
• Green Fashion
  
• Water
  
• Lighting
  
• Laundry
  
• Electricity

Recent blogs or articles include a rant about street lights, the perils of bottled water, mountains of telephone directories and why plastic bags may not be as bad as you think.

• My first Podcast interview - about green consumerism and how they can be a force for change. Click her for link  (sep06)
  
• Video podcast on waste paper
  
• Say Yes to Green Interview - US (2007)