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The sustainability agenda

Posted on June 20, 2011 by mayerhillman
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Keynote talk at Cathedral Group Conference, Greenwich.

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Carbon rationing – the only adequate strategy in the face of climate change

Posted on September 24, 2010 by mayerhillman
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Keynote speaker at the Wild Law Annual Conference of the UK Environmental Law Association.

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The challenge of climate change: the need for multi-disciplinary collaboration

Posted on April 1, 2009 by mayerhillman
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Inaugural Lecture on the occasion of Policy Studies Institute being incorporated into the University of Westminster’s Faculty of the School of Architecture and the Built Environment..

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Climate change – urban change

Posted on October 17, 2008 by mayerhillman
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Keynote speech at Metrex Conference on Climate Change – Urban Change, City Hall, London.

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Ensuring future life on Earth: can we cut carbon emissions sufficiently?

Posted on October 16, 2008 by mayerhillman
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Keynote speech at the Great Carbon Crunch Summit on a United Industries Response to the Green Agenda in the Built Environment, Kings Place Conference Centre, London.

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Why public policy on seeking to match the rising demand for travel must be reversed

Posted on October 15, 2008 by mayerhillman
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Speaker at 32nd National Transport Conference, London, Conference on Developing and Delivering Transport Policy.

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Copenhagen 2009: last chance saloon

Posted on July 18, 2008 by mayerhillman
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Speaker at the Annual Conference of the Green Economics Institute, Mansfield College, Oxford.

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Carbon offsetting – enabling device or conscience opiate

Posted on June 30, 2008 by mayerhillman
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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.

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Healthy environments for children

Posted on June 24, 2008 by mayerhillman
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Panelist at this seminar held at the Smith Institute.

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Debate on carbon offsetting

Posted on June 4, 2008 by mayerhillman
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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’.

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About Mayer…

"One of the environmentalists I admire and fear most [is] a man called Mayer Hillman. I admire him because he says what he believes to be true and doesn’t care about the consequences. I fear him because his life is a mirror in which the rest of us see our hypocrisy." - George Monbiot

"He's a Jeremiah figure, lambasting those who will listen for their moral failure to adapt their lifestyle to reduce carbon emissions. For an audience no doubt contemplating their imminent summer holidays, his rage against the scandal of growing carbon emissions from cheap air flights, made for some awkward shifting in seats. He never flies. His message on transport is stark: travel less and best of all, don't travel at all." - Madelaine Bunting, The Guardian

"With the passion of an evangelist and the intellect of a first rate academic...he argued his proposition that carbon rationing is the only realistic way for the world's population to limit damage from climate change." Jane Chisholm, Cambridge Cycling Campaign

"I’d be the first to admit that no-one’s perfect. Well, one man is – the veteran climate campaigner Mayer Hillman." - Mark Lynas

"Being a town planner, social radical and iconoclast, Mayer Hillman has a way of getting to the heart of things. Twenty years ago, he pointed out that most journeys are made on foot - something transport planners had never considered. A decade ago, he turned our ideas about the freedom of the road on their heads by pointing out that our cars had driven our children off the streets of our cities. Now he wants to save the world."- Fred Pearce, New Scientist

"Here’s someone utterly at home with organised austerity. Wartime rationing, to him, is a heroic precedent, accepted by an embattled nation not as desirable, but as necessary, and above all as fair." - Roger East, Forum for the Future

"If Britain enters into a new relationship with the sun, it will be due to the work of one person who had an idea ahead of his time. [Mayer Hillman's] proposal is a social invention, which is as important as a technological one, though rarer. In fact, his case is almost too good to be true. It is a researcher’s dream that all the points in favour should come out like this. A referendum on the issue might well produce a vote in favour - even in Scotland." - The late Michael Young (Lord Young of Dartington)

Mayer Hillman is a brilliant and influential policy analyst. Think tanks may jostle to claim credit for the next idea from the Government or opposition, but Mayer has often been a generation ahead of mainstream thinking. He began worrying about the impact of the car on society and the environment in the 1950s. He started warning us about climate change in the 1980s.
Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive RSA

Mayer Hillman has a track record of speaking uncomfortable truths even before they become uncomfortable. In the late eighties, while the Department of Transport was congratulating itself on reducing pedestrian deaths, Hillman pointed out that death rates were falling because the roads were getting more dangerous—not less. He was right. Road danger was driving a massive decline in walking—so there were fewer pedestrians to be killed—and today's epidemic of fat kids is one of the direct consequences of this.” Ian Roberts, professor of epidemiology and population health

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Many of my publications are now available through this website, but if you should need to contact me, please e-mail me at mayer@mayerhillman.com and I will do my best to answer your query.

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