Jeremy Williams

Welcome

In writing on September 14, 2008 at 6:22 pm

I am a freelance writer based in Luton.

I specialise in news and features on consumerism, development, poverty, the environment, climate change and conservation.

My main project is Make Wealth History, which deals with all of the above. I am on the steering group of Transition St Albans, and I also contribute regularly to climate change website Celsias.

Recent work

Article on Celsias, What costs 300,000 lives and $125 billion every year?; New website for Breathe; Posters and Flyers for Dignity, Luton; Waking from the consumer dream, for EA’s Slipstream; Flyer design for Breathe Conference 09; Book review for No Sweat Belching out the Devil, by Mark Thomas; article for Celsias, Biodiversity, climate change and Henry David Thoreau ; news for AirportWatch I demand action on aviation emissions (from someone else)

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Launching a transition initiative

In transition on June 7, 2009 at 10:29 am

Transition St Albans began in January, and as it’s my home town, I’ve been helping out. I’ve been tracking our progress in a series of articles, which began here and continues here.

We held our first public meeting last week, which went very well. Here’s my flyer.

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Ask not what bees can do for you…

In writing on April 27, 2009 at 1:23 pm

As you may be aware, bee populations across the world have been in freefall over the last couple of years. The West Coast of the US has lost 70% of its bees, the East Coast 60%. British bees succumbed a little later, and last year 1 in 3 bees vanished.

The disappearances are known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), and it is a mysterious phenomenon – bees just disappear, sometimes overnight, leaving the queen bee and the larvae alone. The worker bees are gone, and nobody is sure where they go or why.

Read on at Make Wealth History

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