It has been an interesting 2013 so far for Isonomia – a flurry of excellent new articles has led to a 40% increase in readers compared with this time last year. We’ve launched a new way for you to view Isonomia’s output, and other material we think is interesting; and we have a new number one article that deserves a mention…
January 2013 was indeed a top month – perhaps the UK population being mainly indoors dodging snow, rain and high winds encourages the reading of environmental blogs. There was a great deal of variety in what we published, exemplified by our two most read pieces for the month Peter Jones OBE’s heartfelt personal piece about how Envirolink Northwest was forced into insolvency contrasted well with Clare Pitts-Tucker’s really informative exploration of what happens to our clothes when we send them for recycling.
At the start of the month we were pleased to welcome another new contributor, Jonathon Johns, who returned the blog to the energy sector for the first time in a few weeks and suggested grounds for optimism coming out of the reform of the Carbon Reduction Commitment. And we rounded off the month with more from Phillip Ward, who provocatively asked whether we have to change the role or character of work in order to achieve a more sustainable way of living.
Change at the top came mid-month when Adam Baddeley’s piece on the pros and cons of exporting waste for use as fuel overtook Steiner and Wiegel’s Reimagining greenhouse gases, despite both continuing to attract a steady stream of readers. Martin, Ulrich – clearly time for you to rise to the challenge! Peter Jones OBE has mounted a charge up our most read author chart, and is knocking on the door of the top five – but still has a long way to go to catch Phillip Ward.
We had more individual visitors than ever before, and a groundswell of referrals via Twitter. Next month we’re hoping to see readers coming from our new Paper.Li site, where you can see Isonomia’s articles, and other interesting material, gathered together in a newspaper format. Try it – you might like it!
February is already looking promising – Chris Sherrington’s long awaited opus on wood burners is back on track, and Dominic Hogg is working on a piece about what duties we have to follow the waste hierarchy. We might also see something on the well-publicised claims about how much food is wasted, and there’s a piece brewing about waste consultancy, the scientific method and the quest for certainty. Ambitious stuff!
Our aim is for Isonomia to provide a platform for a wide variety of views, and we hope to inspire our readers to become bloggers in turn. We try to provide an informed but accessible viewpoint on a wide range of environment issues, and your thoughts are very welcome. Whether it’s offsetting or outsourcing, solar power or skips – whatever’s on your mind, get in touch. We’d be glad to hear from you, be it from Makati or Mansfield, Innsbruck or Inverness. We’re striving to create a space where thoughts on topics from across the environment sector can be expressed and explored, enabling communication and cross fertilisation of ideas – and we’d be delighted if you joined in.
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