The UN has reported that the international target to halve the number of people who do not have access to safe drinking water has been met, five years before the 2015 deadline, 89% of the world’s population – 6.1 billion people – now use improved …
As part of my PhD research, I have just produced two ‘Transition Framework’ documents presenting long-term plans for more sustainable personal washing and home heating practices in Irish households. These have arisen out of my research on sustaina…
A paper that I co-authored with Anna Davies and Jessica Pape, ‘Future Visioning for Sustainable Household Practices: Spaces for Sustainability Learning?’ has been published in Area and has now been made freely available as part of a Virtual Issue …
This is a short video of me explaining our WaterWise exhibit that was part of the Science Gallery Surface Tension exhibition. Designed by myself and Anna Davies of the Trinity Geography Department, it aimed to provoke people to think about how our…
What do you think? The Journal have launched an online poll to gather public opinion on paying for water. So far 62% have said their against! (n=2,380)http://www.thejournal.ie/poll-are-you-in-favour-of-water-charges-328843-Jan2012/?voted=1
This is an interesting campaign launched by Thames Water aiming to get people to think about where their water comes from. This strategy of encouraging people to re-establish a connection with the natural resources they use (energy, water, food) e…
Check out a blog entry that I wrote with Professor Anna Davies on the subject of our most recent publication examining the power of visioning exercises and their relationship with social learning. “In 2009 the UK Chief Scientific Advisor Sir John …
Video reporting findings from a Unilever study shows that the average shower in the UK is 8 minutes long. Typically people think of baths as being very resource intensive. However, a power shower for 8 minutes will use twice as much energy and wat…
Water use has been growing at more than twice the rate of population increase in the last century. Freshwater only makes 2.5% of the total volume of the world’s water (c. 35 million km3). But considering 70% of that freshwater is in the form of ic…
The future of water is the subject of tension. Water is both disposable and sacred, a muse for artists and a necessity for life – a source of healing and of conflict. The earth has abundant water, but only a very small proportion is available for …
