Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Green Economics Institute, Mansfield College, Oxford.
Copenhagen 2009: last chance saloon
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Author Archives: mayerhillman
Carbon offsetting – enabling device or conscience opiate
Paper presented at the meeting Carbon Reduction and Health, organised by the BMJ, the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health and the Faculty of Public Health.
Healthy environments for children
Panelist at this seminar held at the Smith Institute.
Debate on carbon offsetting
Debate in Brussels as part of European Green Week with Tanguy de Monceau, managing co-founder of CO2logic, a firm helping companies go ‘carbon-neutral’.
Carbon currency
Live one-hour interview on National Public Radio on the subject of carbon currency, broadcast in Austin, Texas.
Paperback edition of How We Can Save the Planet
The US paperback edition of How We Can Save the Planet: Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe (with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan) was published by Thomas Dunne Books/St Martin’s Press. ISBN 13: 978-0-312-35206-6.
BBC Radio 4’s PM and on BBC News 24
Inteviews on the dangers of exaggerating the environmental benefits of discouraging the use of plastic bags.
TES interview with Mayer Hillman
Mayer Hillman is an eminent academic whose inspired number-crunching 40 years ago predicted today’s cotton-wool culture. This week, he was due to speak on the topic of school journeys at the Royal Geographical Society conference in London. Continue reading
Limiting climate change: the changing role of public transport
Paper presented at the ATCO Summer Conference ‘Why public transport? Why ATCO?’, Llandudno, Wales, 14 -15 June 2007.
A realistic future for any aspect of policy cannot be determined without reference to key factors that could substantially limit or enlarge its scope. The future role of transport is an obvious case in point. Consider the implications of the key factor that is now being widely recognised as the most pressing issue of our time, that is the one stemming from the near-consensus in the scientific community that global warming is occurring. Greenhouse gas emissions from human activity are relentlessly accelerating global climate change. Mountain glaciers are retreating, sea levels rising, and weather patterns, especially temperatures, altering alarmingly. A very real threat to life on earth is in prospect as the planet has only a finite capacity to absorb greenhouse gas emissions without serious, probably irreversible damage.
Camden should stick to its guns
The attractions for parents of being free to choose the school they wish their child to attend are obvious, not least in the hope of advancing the child’s academic prospects. However, as their decision usually leads to the selection of a more distant school that can only be conveniently reached by car, regard must be paid to the wider social and environmental effects. Recognition of these largely explains why, four years ago, Camden, with all-party support, adopted its policy of aiming to discourage car use on the school run. State schools deliberately prioritise admission in favour of local children who can walk to them. Continue reading
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