Pete Gaskell was in London yesterday (28th April) attending a Heritage Alliance ‘Audience Mapping’ workshop, which aimed to assist the development of a new strategic plan for The Heritage Alliance by mapping and prioritising its audiences to enable better understanding and engagement with them.
There is still time to book your place at 'Talking Rubbish', a key policy seminar on waste management and the circular economy which will be chaired by the well known British environmentalist and writer, Jonathon Porritt CBE.
Jane Mills and Chris Short co-authored a journal article that has just been published in Ecological Indicators. The paper has free access until 14th June, 2016.
A recent article in the Daily Telegraph highlighted the issue of visitor control during the peak Bluebell viewing season at a National Trust site in Hertfordshire. It noted that for the first time the Trust would be charging visitors coming to look at wild flowers. John Powell comments on managing a public good where high levels of 'use' will potentially cause damage.
Dan Keech is teaching a module called Sustainable Food and Food Security for 25 bachelor students at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, from 26th - 29th April, 2016. This is the third year that Dan has delivered this module, which is part of the University's Environmental Studies course, within the Faculty of Social Sciences.
Dan Keech will be speaking at an conference in Sidmouth, Devon, on 16th April at an event which is being organized by the East Devon Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, called ‘Orchards in the Landscape’. Dan’s presentation is called ‘New commercial models for old cultural landscapes – orchard conservation in Germany and England’.
Matt Reed reflects on our recent blog post 'Superfoods go to the roof!' and explores some of the arguments behind 'superfoods' in connection with the future of food and the future of food in cities.
Matt Reed has been walking the terraces of Cyprus where a team from The Cyprus Institute, as part of the RECARE project, are investigating the role of terraces in preserving the soil. In this blog, Matt talks about the traditions of cultivation of mountain terraces and the the challenge to produce and sell food in a way that develops livelihoods and sustains the environment. Matt was accompanied by Jane Mills.
Some of CCRI’s Mauro Vigani's research recently featured in an article in The Guardian in connection with the production of microalgae spirulina on the rooftop of the Novotel Hotel in Bangkok. Our blog article goes deeper into this fascinating subject as Mauro Vigani talks about the two main factors that can drive the growth of the microalgae sector for food: reducing production costs and improving consumer demand.