Beyond Flying: Rethinking air travel in a globally connected world

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Chris Watson is an architect specialising in user-friendliness of buildings. He usually assists large organisations with large property portfolios or special buildings to ensure that their functionality supports organisations' objectives.


Chris co-edited Enhancing Building Performance (2012) and has published various conference papers and journal articles on the evaluation of buildings/architecture. He grew up in an airline family, giving him an interest in aviation which, combined with his passion for eco-friendly design, has inspired him to also write about personal emissions management.

Chris Brazier started his journalistic career at the rock music weekly Melody Maker in the late 1970s. Since 1984 he has been a co-editor at New Internationalist Publications, working on its monthly magazine about global justice issues as well as on its books. He writes regularly for UNICEF's State of the World's Children report and has authored books on topics as wide-ranging as The No-Nonsense Guide to World History and Trigger Issues: Football.

Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Town Totnes and of the Transition Network. His achievements include setting up a permaculture course at Kinsale Further Education College, and coordinating the first eco-village development in Ireland to be granted planning permission. He is author of The Transition Handbook and The Transition Companion, among other publications.

Rob is the winner of the 2008 Schumacher Award, is an Ashoka Fellow and a Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute. He previously served as a Soil Association Trustee, and was named by the Independent as one of the UK's top 100 environmentalists. Rob is the winner of the 2009 Observer Ethical Award in the Grassroots Campaigner category, and was voted the Energy Saving Trust / Guardian's 'Green Community Hero'. He has completed a PhD on Transition and Resilience at Plymouth University.

Saci Lloyd is a children's writer and teacher. She was born in Manchester and raised in Anglesey, Wales. After leaving university for a life of glamour, she has worked at various times as a very bad cartoonist, toured the USA in a straightedge band, run an interactive media team at an advertising agency, co-founded a film company and finally wound up as head of media at a sixth form college in east London. Lloyd's first novels, the Carbon Diaries series, met with critical acclaim. She is the author of Momentum and Quantum Drop.

John Stewart has been an environmental campaigner for over thirty years, specialising
in transport and noise. In 2008 he was voted by the Independent on Sunday newspaper as the UK's 'most effective environmentalist'. He is the author of Why Noise Matters, published in 2011 by Earthscan. He chaired the coalition that defeated plans for a third runway at London's Heathrow Airport. He chairs the UK Noise Association and for many years chaired the UK's leading transport NGO, the Campaign for Better Transport.