LOCATION
NAME
AUDIENCE
AVAILABILITY

AREA /
DISTANCE

TALK TOPICS

BACKGROUND / CONTACT

Leicester

Zoe Fleming

Any audience
Day/evening

Leicestershire or train to nearby towns

Climate change, measuring greenhouse gas emissions, environmental field work including Arctic and Antarctica.

Greener lifestyles, local climate change initiatives and the causes and effects of climate change.

Researcher at De Montfort university in the communication of climate change. Calculates local sources of carbon emissions. Previously carried out atmospheric chemistry research, with field work in polar regions. Worked for Greenpeace, doing media research.

e-mail: zf5@le.ac.uk
tel: 0116 257 7970 (work); 0781 4922387

Leicester

Richard Holmes

Adult audiences
Day/evening

Reasonable distance

Climate change general.
Energy efficiency and carbon management in buildings and organisations - providing advice.

"Turning concerns into actions".
"Keeping Climate Change in Perspective".

Has worked in Carbon Management since the early 1990s; provides an advisory service for individuals and organisations with regard to Climate Change - web site: www.third-stone.co.uk

Has travelled the UK and EU running presentations & seminars. Low Carbon Consultant, Member of the Energy Institute and IEMA, Chartered Environmentalist.

email: Richard.Holmes@Third-Stone.co.uk
tel: 0116 2875588; 07977 965321

Leicester

Andrew Reeves

Adult audiences, sixth forms
Day/evening

Leicestershire or nearby

Carbon footprinting, personal carbon allowances, Friends of the Earth's Big Ask campaign, Carbon Rationing Action Groups.

Researcher at De Montfort University in carbon emissions from housing. Climate campaigner for Leicester Friends of the Earth and member of Leicester Carbon Rationing Action Group.

e-mail: reevesie@gmail.com
tel: 0116 2531649

Lutterworth
Leics

Pippa Stone

Any audience
Day/evening
 

Reasonable distance with the East Midlands

Youth perspective on climate change.

Pippa is the Defra Climate Change Champion for the East Midlands, as announced by the Prime Minister in February 2008. She is available to speak at regional events across the East Midlands. Please make contact via Adam Nethersole at Defra:
email:adam.nethersole@defra.gsi.gov.uk
tel: 0207 238 3392; 07740 948284

Nottingham

Rosamund Aubrey

Adult audiences
Evenings

Reasonable distance

Overview of climate change issues.

Rosamund is a writer on sustainable development and previously managed sustainable development research.


email: rosamund@phonecoop.coop
tel: 0115 965 3533 (home); 0115 848 8207 (work)

Ripley
(Derbys)

Robert Pick

Any audience
Day/evening

Reasonable distance, mainly within East Midlands

Overall climate change topics.

Planning, business and sustainable development consultant. Environmentalist. 28 years in local government inc. Head of Service (waste, energy, green transport, biodiversity, trees, environmental issues). Sustainable Development adviser at Nottingham Trent University, Ofsted Lay Inspector of Schools.

e-mail: bob.pick@ic24.net
tel: 01773 745274; 07866 496294