Sustainable Materials - with both eyes open

This book -- forthcoming media events and appearances

• Fri 4-Feb-2012 19:32 (podcast available after broadcast)
  BBC World Service radio -- One Planet Rare metals and smart lizards
  This week on One Planet we look at some precious metals - not silver and gold, but rare elements such as tungsten, cadmium and lithium.
  The Royal Society has warned that inefficient use of these scarce metals could cause us serious problems in the future - and urgent action is needed to preserve them. That's because these elements are essential for the electronic components which make up the modern wired world.
  On the show we speak to Professor Robert Ayres of the business school INSEAD who explains the problem, plus we visit the lab of Dr Julian Allwood at Cambridge University who is working on ways to recycle these rare metals much more efficiently.
• Thu 23-Feb-2012 Energy and Climate Change Fortnight,
  Oxford University Engineering Society Lecture
• Fri 24-Feb-2012 20:30 Oxford Union
  ''This house believes that reducing the risk of
  climate change is not a technological issue'
  Energy and Climate Change Fortnight - The Big energy Debates
  Oxford University Engineering society

Recent

• Wed 1-Feb-2012 Cambridge, Distinguished Lecture Series
  Engineering for Sustainable Development,
  Lecture Theatre 0, Department of Engineering,
  Trumpington Street, Cambridge, UK. 18:00-1930
• Royal Society, London
  Mon 30-Jan-2012 09:00 - Tue 31-Jan-2012 17:00
  Material efficiency: providing material services with less material production
• Tue 6-Dec-2011 Breathing Buildings
• Tue 13-Dec-2011 Laing O'Rourke Masters class
• Thu 24-Nov-2011 Centre for Environmental Strategy,University of Surrey