Orlando Hughes
Since his arrival at Brook Lyndhurst, Orlando has been involved in assessing the impact of NESTA's Big Green Challenge Plus programme. The 17 projects supported by the fund are attempting to reduce carbon emissions through innovative community-based approaches. Orlando's work on the evaluation has included site visits and interviews. Other work at Brook Lyndhurst has included support for our exploration of consumer understanding of green terms for Defra and for our evaluation of Defra's Greener Living Fund.
Orlando has a background in relief work and the NGO sector. Before joining Brook Lyndhurst in September 2009, he worked with Médecins Sans Frontières as a logistician in the Ivory Coast running a mobile clinic and hospital project. He also worked with RedR, an organisation involved with the training and placement of humanitarian workers, both in London as an office manager and in Sri Lanka helping to establish a training & learning project.
Most recently he has been involved with Disaster Waste Recovery, a new NGO which deals with the management of waste after emergencies worldwide. Additionally, over the past year he has worked as a writer, much of which involved research into climate change and its impacts, and has been involved with a number of community projects in London, from a city farm to a bicycle recycling project.
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Brook Lyndhurst Blog
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Dear Sir/Madam
I reacted badly this week when, in response to a tender document I’d prepared, I received an email saying “Thank you for your submission, but I regret to inform you that you have been unsuccessful in your application…” It wasn’t the No that upset me - it’s an occupational hazard of competitive tendering, after all, and [...]
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Time to buy the Sustainable Development Commission?
News that the government has decided to withdraw its funding for the Sustainable Development Commission is prompting comment in a number of locations. I particularly enjoyed George Monbiot’s observation that the £1.9mn being saved is no more than ‘a rounding error’ on the Trident missile invoice. Having once been a Commissioner on the London Sustainable Development [...]
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Marketing to the marketers will be key for green claims guidance
Our research for Defra on the prevalence and content of green claims was published recently. The study – along with our work on consumer understanding of green terms – is feeding into a revision of Defra’s green claims guidance for marketers, the consultation for which closed in June. While researching a possible follow up story, one [...]