This half hour programme looks at how some people are responding the the threat of climate
change as we approach the Copenhagen summit in December 2009. It includes interviews with
schoolchilcren participating in the Generation Green
youth tank, including comments from Julia, as their expert green guide.
Organised by South Somerset District Council the Zero-Som Sustainability
event included an exhibition with lots of green stall-holders and with me as the key note
speaker. My main message was that we can all do something and that what we do does make a
difference even if on its own it feels trivial.
The North West
Regional event of thePrince of Wales May Day
Summit was held in the Concorde Hangar at
Manchester Airport. And I had rather mixed feelings about sharing the room with
the world's most polluting aircraft. I made a keynote presentation encouraging
individual and corporate action rather than waiting for either government or indeed
technological progress to come up with the solution to climate change.
JULIA
HAILES TALKS TO GREENVOICE ABOUT HER WORK - Feb09
Julia Hailes is a leading opinion former, freelance consultant and speaker on
social, environmental and ethical issues. Her work includes environmental reviews,
management briefings and advising companies on policy, strategy and communications.
In this video, she talks about her work to Greenvoice, a small web networking site which aims to get people
involved in green discussions on a range of topics.
RADIO 2 - THE JEREMY VINE SHOW ON FOOD WASTE
- Jun 09
Listen to fierce debate with Julia Hailes about the merits of 'slop bins'
or garbage pails as I prefer to call them. I'm being challenged by a chap who didn't
impress me much with his views on food waste, recycling and climate change.
M&S took a lead in charging for carrier bags and have subsequently
reduced the amount handed out by a staggering 80%. My view is that this is a good
initiative but that the issue of carrier bags has been given far too much attention,
given the relatively small impact they have.
SOLVING SUSTAINABILITY: MORE SPEED, LESS HASTE -
Jun08
"Former BT futurologist Ian Pearson recently joined a futures
consultancy with a bang when he put out the provocative report Achieving CO2 reductions in
the UK by using technology instead of muddled thinking. The report suggests, among
other things, that the rush to save the world from dwindling energy reserves, global
warming etc. is forcing policy makers and other stakeholders to make poor decisions.
Sustainability consultant and author Julia Hailes MBE kindly agreed to put Ian on the spot
in this quickfire conversation to discuss Ian’s analysis. As expected, the two don’t agree
on much, but there is some common ground."
Julia Hailes MBE, Sustainability consultant, and author, The New Green
Consumer Guide
