Two major industrial trends have cast a long shadow over the environment during my working lifetime. The first was the idea of built-in obsolescence which developed in the 1970s. More recently, this has been dubbed premature obsolescence. After the MAD […]
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Dr Graeme Pearce talks to Antoine Walter about the development of membrane bioreactors to treat waste water, the impact of MBRs in the water treatment market and their significance in a world where the stress on water supplies is increasing. […]
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In June 2017, I met someone from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) at a conference. She seemed somewhat bemused at the changes that were starting to be made at her agency following Trump’s election. Political ructions had happened plenty […]
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Covid is continuing to dominate our lives. I decided after the 1st UK lockdown that there was going to be a fundamental shift in teaching and it was not going to be possible to have face to face workshops any […]
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When Douglas Adams wrote the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Britain hadn’t long joined the EU. The book became a sensation and it gradually turned into a series. The author described his tardiness in producing the promised sequels with the […]
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