The TV and radio schedules have been full of the obligatory “Review of 2012” programmes, reminding us of all the things we have almost forgotten about the year just gone. At the end of our first full calendar year of blogging, this is Isonomia’s chance to get in on the act with our own seasonal look back at a year in which we’ve taken great strides towards establishing a place in the waste and energy world.
Our growing audience and reach is demonstrated by the fact that in terms of page views, visits and visitors, four of our five most successful months were those between September and December 2012. Peter Jones and Emma Gowing rounded off the year with their survey of festive recycling campaigns. However, it was Adam Baddeley and Chris Cullen who were “the daddies” last month, as the younger folk on the admin desk have been known to term it – achieved by submitting not just one, but two short pieces on the conclusions that can be drawn from Eunomia’s Residual Waste Infrastructure Review.
Adam Baddeley was also a close contender for most read article of the year, with his piece on the pros and cons of exporting waste for use as fuel coming desperately close to overtaking Steiner and Wiegel’s Reimagining greenhouse gases. Both were just a few page views ahead of Chris Sherrington’s hit from early in the year, Canning the Carbon. However, no-one could catch 2012’s most read man, Phillip Ward, who has managed to be as perceptive as he is prolific throughout the year. So confident was he of his lead that he didn’t submit a new piece in December – instead his late November contribution on the impact of DCLG’s Weekly Collection Support Scheme and other policies on local authority finances picked up enough readers to cement his position. Can anyone challenge him in 2013?
Our Christmas special meant that we picked up another cohort of e-mail subscribers, as well as a goodly number of new Twitter followers, so our audience continues to widen. There has never been a better time for a budding blogger to reach a wider audience through our site, so we hope that some of the industry experts and interested observers in our readership will have felt inspired to make blogging for us one of their New Year’s resolutions.
We have one new author lined up for this month, with Jonathon Johns about to offer some thoughts on changes to the CRC energy efficiency scheme, and another fresh face will be writing about textile recycling. Chris Sherrington was, we believe, too busy finding enough littered aluminium cans to offset a journey to Australia to be able to finish his two papers on wood burners before Christmas, but they are in the offing for January 2013.
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 our widespread readers, be it from Madrid or Milton Keynes, Cardiff or Copenhagen. 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.
Enjoy the site, tell us what you think, tell your friends and keep coming back for more in 2013.
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