Football pitch of rainforest lost every 6 seconds
News: In 2019, the Earth lost 3.8 million hectares of primary forest — equivalent to one football pitch of rainforest gone every six seconds.
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News: Making waves in ocean and marine conservation
News: Celebrating conservation and tackling overfishing, the winners of the Ocean Awards 2020 have been announced by BOAT International and BLUE.
Read moreNews: Crowdsourcing AI to fight deforestation
News: Innovative project launched to crowdsource knowledge from citizen scientists and harness power of AI to help fight deforestation in Amazon rainforest.
Read moreUp on the Roof: Birds, Bees & Biosolar
New writing… My latest piece for Eniday looks at the urban resilience opportunity to be found over our heads. Where clean meets green, it is as much about plant power as power plants and offers real-estate owners and property developers, architects and engineers, planners and ecologists the promise of smart-city biodiversity for the 21st-century. To learn more, read the full story of […]
Read moreRegeneration, Plastic and Fish in The Sunday Times
New writing… Pleased to say I have had a further trio of pieces published in The Sunday Times newspaper this week, as part of a special Raconteur report on Project Management. The first is a story of simple truths applied at scale and looks at how collaboration is critical to the success of a multi-stakeholder regeneration scheme such as Nine Elms. […]
Read moreGreen Hotels + Biophilia, to IoT + Modern Slavery
More of my journalism and blogging pieces have been published in the last few months and I have provided a brief update menu of Built Environment, Real Estate and Construction articles below, with links to original copy. (Additional writings on Environment, Energy and Education topics will follow.) Hotels Check in to Greener Thinking Summary: Enter a hotel room anywhere in the world and the […]
Read moreFrom farming and energy, to future cities
More of my journalism and blogging pieces have been published in the last few months and I have provided a brief update menu of articles below, with links to original copy. Fields of Thought and the Seeds of Time: GM Debate Reaches Deadlock Opinion on genetically modified foods remains divided, but can such agricultural technology help to avoid widespread and imminent famine? […]
Read moreUrban Greening: Nature is back in town
A version of this article first appeared in a Special Report on ‘Future Cities’, published in The Times, 26 March, 2013. According to received wisdom, it is not possible to put a price on Nature, however, to much debate, that is exactly what has been happening increasingly of late, as policymakers and markets strive to develop robust metrics to determine […]
Read moreSustainable farming futures: Fields of hope
A version of this article first appeared in a Special Report on ‘Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security’, published in The Times, 25 March, 2013. “The key statistic is that we are producing 260% more food with 2% less inputs versus 20 years ago”, declares Rich Kottmeyer, Global Agriculture and Food Production Leader at Accenture. “No other industry, I can think […]
Read morePortugal: The Harvest of the Cork
Nowhere on the planet is cork in more bountiful supply than Portugal, where the Alentejo Region is home to the largest proliferation of cork oak trees in the world. Ecologically, cork forests absorb carbon dioxide on a significant scale, assisting in reducing the impact of carbon emissions and other greenhouse gasses. Furthermore, the cultivation and management of these vast cork […]
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