Author Profile: Oliver Tickell

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Sensible Solutions - Natural Frugality • Oliver Tickell

Issue 257 • November/December 2009 • Resilience & Climate Change > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

The practice of natural frugality creates a quiet but abiding satisfaction all of its own.

Review - Vuzpegs • Oliver Tickell

Issue 253 • March/April 2009 • Economics of Place > Web Exclusives > Review

Studying, protecting and befriending hedgehogs.

Exit Strategy • Oliver Tickell

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Reviews

The shift to a low-carbon future.

Sensible Solutions - Time to Change • Oliver Tickell

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

Pictures Paint A Thousand Words • Oliver Tickell

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Reviews

Earth Then and Now

Sensible Solutions - BIOFUELS • Oliver Tickell

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 • The Moral Economy > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

Palm-oil production is a major cause of deforestation in the Far East. We need to halt the headlong rush towards biofuels at any cost.

Sensible Solutions - The Car Inefficiency Levy • Oliver Tickell

Issue 244 • September/October 2007 • The Green Imperative > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

Until we hold car manufacturers accountable for the pollution their products cause, we will not begin to address their impact on climate change and ecosystems.

Perspectives - Plastic Bags • Oliver Tickell

Issue 244 • September/October 2007 • The Green Imperative > Regulars > Perspectives

The environmental impact of our profligate lifestyles has far more to do with what we put into our shopping bags than with the bags themselves.

Sensible Solutions - CLARIFYING CLIMATE CHAOS • Oliver Tickell

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 • Urban Ecology > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

Kyoto2 would control fossil fuels and greenhouse-gas emissions as close as possible to the point of production. An outline of the framework for a second climate change protocol.

PROACTIVE AND POSSIBLE • Oliver Tickell

Issue 241 • March/April 2007 • Urban Ecology > Reviews

Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning by George Monbiot. Cutting our greenhouse-gas emissions sufficiently for our survival will need a profound transformation of our society and economy.

Sensible Solutions - BUILDINGS AND BUSES • Oliver Tickell

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 • There is no wealth but life > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

New ideas to promote housing choice and smoother long-distance bus journeys in the UK.

Sensible Solutions - TIME FOR CHANGE • Oliver Tickell

Issue 236 • May/June 2006 • Animate Earth > Regulars > Sensible Solutions

Small ways to make a big difference: cars, trans fats, smart electricity meters, saving envelopes, water efficiency.