The Admin desk has been deluged in April – not least by the incessant rain that has been with us in Bristol since drought was declared earlier in the month. With work for clients taking precedence over blogging for many of our contributors, we’ve had quite a quiet month on the Isonomia front, but articles new and old have continued to draw in plenty of visitors and there will be more new material in May to grab the interest of the internet.
- New authors are continuing to find their way to us – last month it was Wayne Hubbard of LWARB, whose piece about the role of revolving loan scheme in their efficiency programme was one of our most read articles in April. Steiner and Wiegel’s Reimagining Greenhouse Gases continued to be well read, but the top spot for last month is occupied by Claire Stonier and Peter Jones with their discussion of whether home based businesses produce commercial or household waste. The topic may hve been described by an unkind commentator as “estoteric” – but clearly that’s what Isonomia readers go for.
- Phillip Ward remains our most read author over all, and produced two excellent pieces in April looking at the coalition’s environmental policies – can any of our other contributors catch him? He’s already suggested the topic of his next contribution might be on consumers and eco labels, so they’ll have to keep up with his phenomenal rate of production.
- Our audience was much more international in April, with Stockholm, Auckland and Berlin appearing in our top 10, Ghent just outside, and a welcome range of visitors from India and the Middle East. It’s great when what we publish has that sort of wide appeal. The Desk would like to express its gratitude to Eunomia in New Zealand for promoting our blog there, and its hope that we’ll be able to publish some kiwi perspectives on waste and the environment soon.
- Emma Gowing has already got the ball rolling for May, with her article on Big Society Capital, and we have another new contributor, Tristram Stuart, lined up to talk about how a free lunch may help to tackle food waste: in advance of his article, the Desk is happy to give a plug to “Feeding the 5000” in Bristol on 12th May – if you can make it to College Green between 1pm and 5pm, come and find out how tasty food can be that might never otherwise have made it to the plate.
But there’s always room for more informed comment, and we’d be glad to hear from you. If you’d like to offer an informed but accessible viewpoint on any issue in the environment sector – whether it’s waste or water, enforcement or emissions – whatever’s on your mind, get in touch. Our goal is 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 – so feel free to join in.
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