Living Sustainably - is it possible?

James Ellson


Regions:
North West, East Midlands, Staffordshire, South Yorkshire
Notice Period:
Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
Type:
Writer, Speaker, Smallholder
Fee:
Paid: £75 plus mileage
Category:
Nature
Updated:
6th October 2021

We’re all familiar with the bleak environmental outlook, climate change and the pressure on resources. Most of us are trying to do something about it. In this talk, I look at what sustainability is, and how better to achieve it with our food, and our day-to-day living. It’s something I believe passionately about. I will draw on my experience of managing our smallholding . . . we are now just about self-sufficient in fruit and vegetables. We have solar panels, a wood pellet boiler, and are zero sum users of electricity. And we try to follow the mantra of reduce, reuse, recycle. This talk will give everyone at least a few ideas how to live more sustainably.

Any size audience, 1 hour

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About James Ellson

I was a police officer for 15 years, starting in London and finishing as a Detective Inspector at Moss Side in Manchester. I now wear three hats of writer, smallholder, and speaker.

My debut novel The Trail was published in 2020, and the sequel Cold Dawn in 2022. Both were longlisted for the Boardman Tasker award. Cold Summer concludes the Nepal Trilogy. Base Line is the fourth book in the DCI Castle series.

I live on a smallholding in the Peak District, which includes bees and an orchard. I'm a keen mountaineer.

Website: jamesellson.com


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