THE GREEN REVOLUTION

Jeremy Blake – Senior Partner & Head of SustainabilityPurcell Miller Tritton LLP

18 June 2011 – Newcastle University Convocation

Global Context

• CO2: increased year on year since 1958• Glaciers: receding worldwide• Global temperature: rising• Sea temperatures: record hurricanes and typhoons• Precipitation patterns: big time storms and floods• Evaporation increase: prolonged droughts• Arctic & Antarctic ice shelves: melting• Permafrost: reducing• Sea levels: rising• Population: booming

Global Context

• CO2: increased year on year since 1958• Glaciers: receding worldwide• Global temperature: rising• Sea temperatures: record hurricanes and typhoons• Precipitation patterns: big time storms and floods• Evaporation increase: prolonged droughts• Arctic & Antarctic ice shelves: melting• Permafrost: reducing• Sea levels: rising• Population: booming

Humanity already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical and industrial know-how to solve the carbon & climate problems

Science – 13 August 2004

Political will is a renewable source

An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore

Kyoto, Climategate & Legislation

Eden Project, Cornwall

Industrial Revolution

Oil Revolution

Post industrial & Oil Revolution Legacies

Alternative Technologies

Alternative Technologies

Water Conservation

Water Conservation

Water Power

Water Power

Cragside

RSPB Headquarters, Sandy Bedfordshire

Bowood Hotel Wiltshire

Athenaeum Hotel Piccadilly

St Pauls Cathedral

Hemp (Cannabis sativa)

Hemp Process

King James Bible

Magna Carta

Declaration of Independence

Hemp Fibre Clothing, Ropes & Sails

Elizabeth I

Man-made Fibres - Demise of Hemp

Hemp Fibre Ethnic Clothing & Bags

Hemp Fibre Body Shells, Door Panels & Brake Pads

Hemp Fibre Growing Mats & Hemp Seed Oil

Hemp Fibre Insulation & Boards

Hemp Dust – Drax Powerstation Fuel

Hemp Shiv – Animal Bedding

Hemp Shiv - Construction

Haverhill Hemp Housing

Haverhill Hemp Housing

Adnams Distribution Centre, Southwold Suffolk

Adnams Distribution Centre, Southwold Suffolk

Adnams Distribution Centre, Southwold Suffolk

Adnams Distribution Centre, Southwold Suffolk

Lime Technology Offices, Abingdon Oxfordshire

Coworth Park Spa, Ascot Berkshire

Coworth Park Spa, Ascot Berkshire

Coworth Park Spa, Ascot Berkshire

Coworth Park Spa, Ascot Berkshire

M & S Cheshire Oaks, South Wirral

The Roxburghe, Scottish Borders

EcoLife Resorts

Broadbottom Estate, St Helena

Broadbottom Estate, St Helena

Songjiang Project Shanghai

The Green Revolution – Cradle to Cradle