…that’s newly sprung in June. And the Admin desk certainly has a bit of a spring in its step after some excellent and well received articles in the month of May, covering as wide a range of topics as ever. The challenge is on to keep up the variety and the high standard through the months ahead.
It was great to be able to support a really positive event in Bristol last month by putting out Tristram Stuart’s piece on the Feeding the 5000 campaign. The event was really successful, with thousands of people turning up to enjoy curry in the sunshine, and fittingly the article was May’s most read item on Isonomia. But it was closely followed by the work of another new contributor, as Emma Gowing’s misgivings about Big Society Capital’s potential to aid environmental social enterprises also picked up healthy readership.
Phillip Ward maintained his position as our most read author with his discussion of the EU Eco-label – admirable not least for finding potential in a brand that research showed has less recognition than something completely made up. But his readership was also bolstered by a resurgence of interest in an article on SME waste management from back in November 2011, as a discussion on the LinkedIn Waste Management and Recycling Professionals forum caught light again in May.
Indeed, the Admin team finds it fascinating the way that some of our articles keep on picking up readers for months after publication (yes, we should get out more). Thomas Vergunst’s piece on the unsustainability of consumerism continues to clock up readers, as does “Reimagining Greenhouse Gases”. And the travails of PHS Wastetech last month brought readers back to James Fulford’s article on the sharks of the waste market.
London and Reading both overtook Bristol this month as the places where our greatest number of visits came from. Our Scottish audience remains strong – hello in Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh, all in our top 10 locations last month! It is really cheering also to see places so varied as Auckland, Dublin, Melbourne and Paris in the top 20. Oh, and hello too in Palo Alto, glad you came to visit us!
You may already have noticed that this month we have addressed the great cookie challenge, and introduced a tool to give readers the choice as to whether to accept Isonomia’s cookies in their browser. We only use cookies for stats and analysis, so there’s nothing to fear!
Looking ahead, the Admin desk has received intimations from Joe Papineschi and Dominic Hogg that articles will be forthcoming in June – but there’s always room for more informed comment. If you’d like to offer an intelligent 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. We’d be glad to hear from you. 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 – and you’re very welcome to join in.
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