Book Review

For the book review, I chose 'Waste: Uncovering the global food scandal', by Tristram Stuart. The topic has always fascinated me, as food is very resource expensive to grow, harvest, refine, sort, package and transport to the supermaket, where it will be picked up, bought, brought home, stored in a refrigerator then cooked. The principle of simply throwing it away after it has made this epic journey is galling. There was a fairly recent (last few years) ad campaign in the UK that stated 'One in three bags of shopping will be thrown away.' This shocking statistic has motivated me to learn more about it so I can complain and rant intelligently to my housemates as they dump their newly bought but never eaten chinese stir-fry in the bin!

Introduction

Hi,
I'm Daniel Cadwallader. I have moved straight onto the MSc from the BSc that I completed last year here. So far, I have been focusing my degree on conservation, sustainability and renewable energy. These three topics are, in my opinion, key to the successful development of the human race over the next centuries. They are tightly intertwined, with no successful conservation project being fully effective unless it can incorporate the sustainable living of the people whose lives it will affect.
Sustainability has always been of interest to me. And I look forward to learning more about how it can be successfully implemented in society during the course.