I co-ordinated and managed all marketing elements of the London Festival of Architecture where Arup was involved. These boards were part of the street gallery that was on display in 4 prominent locations in London during the festival. Arup was a major sponsor of the festival and also hosted a number of talks and other events that I managed.

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Global climate change and dwindling Between 2000 and 2004, production of The UN says that as many as 50M people
natural resources are combining to passenger cars in China jumped from could be considered environmental
increase the likelihood of violent conflict 605 000 to 2.33M. More people are refugees by 2010 due to deforestation,
over land, water and energy. driving cars, and the number of motor sea-level rise, expanding deserts, and
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vehicles other than two-wheelers in the catastrophic weather events.
world is expected to double in the next Source: Food and Agriculture Organisation of the
15 years to 1.3bn. United Nations www.fao.org/worldfoodsummit
Source: www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=627
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By replacing 219km of faulty pipes in Global bottled water consumption reached Recent estimates suggest that climate
London Thames Water will save an 154bn litres in 2004, up 57% from the 98bn change will account for about 20% of the
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estimated 30M litres of water every litres consumed five years earlier. increase in global water scarcity. By mid-
24 hours. century, estimates range from 2bn people
in 48 countries being short of water, up to
7bn people in 60 countries.
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In 1950 the average Briton travelled 5 In the winter of 2003 21 500 people over Some 1.6bn people – one-quarter of the
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miles a day; today it’s more than 30 miles the age of 65 died as a direct result of the world population – have no access to
and forecast to double again in the next cold in England and Wales. electricity.
two decades. Source: http://www.britishgassafety.co.uk/News. Source: The International Energy Agency and Africa, 2003
Source: Clipping Our Wings? BBC Radio 4’s Analysis, aspx?cid=133team, 28 April 2006 www.iea.org/textbase/papers/2003/african_energy.pdf
1 March 2007 www.news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/
analysis/6389415.stm
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explore the implications for society in key issues associated with: energy,
the future. waste, climate change, water,
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The average fleece jacket may contain the The average plastic bag takes 1 second In his or her lifetime a child born in a
re-used material from around 25 plastic to manufacture, is 20 minutes in use and developed country will consume as much
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drinks bottles. takes 100- 400 years to degrade naturally. as 30 - 50 children living in a developing
Source: Rob Bowden, Sustainable World – Waste, 2004 Source: UN Environment Programme, Vital Waste country.
graphics 2, 2006 Source: UN Environment Programme, Resource kit on
sustainable consumption and production, 2006
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explore the implications for society in key issues associated with: energy,
the future. waste, climate change, water,
demographics and urbanisation.
It is estimated that the energy needs of Temperatures in the Arctic have been “In the next 24 hours, deforestation will
developing countries will increase by over rising at twice the global average. The release as much CO2 into the atmosphere
230% by 2050. Arctic summer sea on current trends will as 8 million people flying from London to
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be almost gone by 2050. New York”.
Source: Daniel Howden, Deforestation: the hidden cause
of global warming, The Independent, 14 May 2007 http://
commondreams.org/archive/2007/05/14/1175/
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the future. waste, climate change, water,
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One-third of the world’s urban population Cities house half of the world’s population Five years ago in Nigeria, there were
lives in what are defined by the UN as but consume three-quarters of the world’s 370 000 people with mobile phones. Just
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slum conditions. resources and produce three-quarters of four years later, mobile phone users in the
Source: UN-HABITAT State of the World’s the world’s pollution. country topped 16.8M.
Cities 2006/7 Source: H Girardet, Cities People Planet, 2004 Source: http://web.worldbank.org/uk
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