One of the tough things about doing VentnorBlog is finding the time to prepare content that has been recorded, readying it for publication. This has led us to having a whole lot of interesting recorded interviews that we haven’t yet Podcast to you yet.
This quiet period between Christmas and New Year gives us the chance to give these still-relevant interviews a proper airing.
First up is the oldest – back from April 2008, a week after the high of the Eco-Island conference.
We had a call from Shuba and Mark at the then-Bonchurch Manor Hotel that Andrew Simms, Policy Director of the new economics foundation (nef), was staying with them and was up for a chat about Eco issues would impact people’s living patterns in the coming years.
We spent just over an hour together, with a lot of information and ideas being delivered.
Things spoke about
Here are some triggers of the things that were spoken about –
- environmental change happens naturally, but change is happening now very quickly;
- Rise of oil prices – on the verge of or living through Peak Oil;
- the methods of Heating homes, growing food, travelling will change and need to be looked at;
- the upcoming changes are similar to the changes that happened to UK society during war time;
- there are positive benefits such as health improves;
- the Isle of Wight provides a potential to run an experiment as to how well and how quickly those changes could be made;
- One Planet Living;
- how the IW could be a model for eco living with its strong agricultural base;
- watching TV produces similar brain patterns to clinical depression;
- that society has been living beyond its means financially – led to same environmentally;
- Happy Planet index;
- Green wash – how to measure it;
- the Sustainable Communities Act
Split into three sections
We’ve split the session into three separate recording, to aid you in listening to them.
Hope you enjoy it. [audio:http://otw-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/andrew-simms-new-economics-foundation-Apr.2008-1.mp3] [audio:http://otw-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/andrew-simms-new-economics-foundation-Apr.2008-2.mp3] [audio:http://otw-audio.s3.amazonaws.com/andrew-simms-new-economics-foundation-Apr.2008-3.mp3]
Background
Andrew Simms at nef
Andrew Simms’ writings in the Guardian
