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Hazel J Hill linking Cardiff to Kuwait and Middle East
It has often been said that problems are challenges to be seized and opportunities for innovation and progress, and this must surely be true of the issues facing both the world’s economy and ecology in the 21st century.
The inexorable shift from dependence upon oil is upon us. It will be all but gone by the end of the 21st century, we are told. In addition, the release of so much carbon - ‘stored sunlight’ - is affecting the planet’s ecosystems. Everywhere, articles are written, programmes made, films released and pleas made by individuals and organisations pledged to raise awareness of the seriousness of the situation, in the hope of changing not just hearts and minds, but policies and behaviours from the top to the bottom, governments to individuals.
No one can ignore the impact of oil – or the prospect of the lack of it. From food to machinery, transportation and travel, most mass-use products and services are somewhere dependent upon energy and infrastructure powered by oil.
It is clear that the message has been heard and alternatives adopted by major Middle East companies building new cities and large infrastructure projects. The embedding of ‘alternative’ technologies – although for quite how long they will be called ‘alternative’ is debatable – is evident.
Continuing innovation in this sector is essential, and collaboration with the new technology companies around the world is a successful model, reminding us of the old adage about something coming together successfully being ‘greater than the sum of its parts’.
Advances in energy production often bring changes in the landscape. The need for more electricity brought hydro-electric power into focus and with it the construction of the iconic Hoover Dam in the US. Completed in 1935, it was both the world's largest electric-power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. Now, immense wind turbines populate lonely hillsides and coastlines in many parts of Europe, dividing the population into ‘love them’ or ‘hate them’ groups.
Access to solar energy is now possible for individuals and businesses, as additions to existing buildings, and as part of a growing toolkit for new, environmentally friendly, ecologically sustainable buildings, cities and industrial complexes. Organisations commissioning such projects realise that they have the power to shape the future as well as the responsibility to make meaningful changes, impacting on a whole raft of issues from construction materials and methods to waste management and future energy consumption.
The world of faith might look to a higher power for wisdom. The perfection of the natural order, its harmony and balance, teach mankind the lesson of working with the forces of nature rather than fighting the earth for its resources, endangering the very natural order so necessary for the preservation of life. Indeed, it could be said that all mankind wonders at the beauty of the earth, regardless of their religious affiliation.
Hazel Hill, Founder and Managing Director of Hazel Young Ltd, is committed to supporting projects that further the development and implementation of technologies that impact on clean energy production, reduce pollution and make a contribution to future stability in meeting the growing demand for energy in the developing and developed world.
The current financial crisis presents us with a unique opportunity to begin the transition to a low carbon economy. It will provide space to question the short-term thinking that has plagued the world at large for decades and to invest in real change. This will bring with it challenges to sustain the economy, demanding unprecedented leadership, robust policies, decisive action and a new way of thinking, from Government to CEOs, across the world.
Recently, on this theme, Professor Tim Jackson, economics commissioner for the Sustainable Development Commission, launched a report calling on the UK government to tackle the economic crisis through low carbon recovery measures. Here, he suggests a new way of thinking to meet the challenges that lie ahead. This year is likely to be seen as a defining moment in economic history. The combination of the severest economic recession since the 1930s; increasingly stark warnings about the risk of accelerating climate change; worsening environmental problems and resource shortages, and the threat of widespread social disruption all leave no room for business-as-usual thinking. (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales 06/04/09/)
The importance of implementing new and existing technologies in traditional energy industries is critical – including the treatment of polluted water generated by the oil production process; solar energy generation on a much larger scale; new developments in the transfer of solar energy generated in space, to earth-based distribution points, a strategy for energy generation that has been waiting for decades for the technology to make it possible. Hazel’s company, Hazel Young Ltd, has been involved in a number of strategic developments in the Middle East, including a major project with the Gulf Tanker Company, who are at the forefront of implementing environmentally friendly technology for new projects in the Middle East, including new and existing oil refineries.
Hazel Hill has a passion for networking! But this is networking on a global scale. With a background in accountancy and enterprise development, Hazel has always had a flair for bringing people together where a business opportunity exists. In 2005, Hazel found herself with a need to change her way of working and, as a result, took this networking ability to the global market, using the power of the World Wide Web – truly worldwide in this case! Hazel has been working with a significant network in Europe, the US and the Middle East to bring together major players - innovators, entrepreneurs and fund holders - a ‘golden triangle’ of resources needed to bring projects to life, impacting on the future of clean and sustainable energy production.
Hazel’s interests currently include the development of oil refineries, major construction projects, and solar energy production on an unprecedented scale. Smaller projects are also under discussion – the creation of a new health resort in Turkey, an English school in North Africa, the provision of budget accommodation in Japan, and others. Hazel has demonstrated her credentials in the network and gained the trust of major fund holders, and is now in a position to bring the key elements of projects together.
The current physical and political developments in the Middle East, with the appointment of the first female Minister in the Saudi government, add a new flavour to the mix. As an example of a woman building an entrepreneurial network, Hazel is exploring the possibilities which now exist for discussion about female entrepreneurship and new business incubation, to both of which she is committed, building on the regeneration and enterprise support strategy adopted by the Welsh Assembly Government (devolved government within the United Kingdom) in response to the changing business landscape in Europe.
Based in Cardiff in the Principality of Wales, 150 miles west of London, UK, Hazel has built a reputation of trust in the network. Acting as a ‘broker’ and a catalyst, Hazel operates within open networks (LinkedIn and Ecademy), and closed, exclusive networks. These extensive relationships have developed over 3 years and bring CEOs, decision makers, government representatives, education institutions and entrepreneurs together. One of the things Hazel brings to the group is the ability to draw on the experience of the aftermath of a polluting industry in the Valleys of South Wales – a 100 year old legacy of coal mining and the visible scars of the waste products on the landscape. Seeing the investment needed from the UK and the European Union to mitigate the inheritance of 19th and 20th century wealth generating industries, Hazel has powerful reason to promote the newer, cleaner, technology-enhanced opportunities to create energy and prosperity.
South Wales is also well served by Higher and Further Education Institutions. The ‘third mission’ brief from the UK Government is to make the expertise in these institutions accessible to industry and commerce, and Hazel has links with the University of Glamorgan, based in the heartland of the once-thriving mining valleys of Wales. This University hosts the Centre of Excellence for Electronic Product Engineering (CEPE) as well as the largest Business School in Wales. Hazel has experience of the MSc Female Entrepreneurship at the University of Glamorgan, and also the facility which supports new and small businesses, called ‘GTi’. Cardiff University, University of Wales Institute Cardiff and University of Wales College Newport are other centres of academic expertise within a 20 mile radius.
Hazel is seeking new opportunities for partnership working - projects that need funding and joint ventures; as well as investors who are looking for major projects with long-term benefits based on clean and ethical technologies.
Hazel has located her business in Wales, with its vibrant capitol city, Cardiff. Cardiff’s greatest period of growth began in the 18th century with the development of the coal and iron industries in the South Wales Valleys. In the early 19th century a canal was built to transport the coal from the increasing number of coal mines in the Valleys, and then the Taff Vale Railway linked Merthyr Tydfil and the Rhondda Valleys with Cardiff - at the time the greatest iron and coal exporter in the world. Welsh coal powered the industrial revolution. The resultant growth in population and the immense wealth from coal that was invested in Cardiff helped it win city status in 1905. In the 19th century Coal Exchange, now a legacy of Victorian architecture itself in need of redevelopment, the first ever £1 million cheque was written! As the mining industry in Wales declined in the 20th century, Cardiff transformed itself from a port city into the administrative centre of Wales. In 1955, it was made Capital of Wales, and is now home to the devolved Welsh Assembly Government, and cultural icons such as the Millennium Stadium – home of Welsh Rugby, and the Wales Millennium Centre – home of the Welsh National Opera.
Cardiff is a city famous for its multicultural population and Tiger Bay is known internationally as the historical centre where the cultures met and mixed - 57 countries are represented here and continue to add to the rich diversity of this vibrant city. This part of the new Cardiff Bay is undergoing redevelopment and is demonstrates that communities can be at the heart of construction. The Bute town project is taking into consideration the needs of the wider community in its consideration for energy efficient buildings, the needs of the ageing population and those of people with disabilities. Green policies on waste management are high on the agenda of Cardiff City Council.
Hazel’s experience of living in this area has contributed to her understanding of the cultural nuances in business and enterprise, and drawn her closer to the multinational, multicultural community around her home and across her worldwide network. This knowledge and understanding has played a key role in the development of her international network of entrepreneurs. Bringing people together for collaboration and enterprise, finding projects, partners and funding, wherever the opportunity presents, is the core mission of Hazel Young Ltd.
It has been said that Wales is ‘a network of networks’, a place where collaboration is made easier by the history of close-knit mining communities influencing the present desire to work together for change. Hazel’s networking style reflects this, and so the vision of Hazel Young Ltd reflects Hazel’s own business ethos: to bring people together with the best technologies, a spirit of innovation and enterprise, and the right investment package for the project. Working with agents and partners across the Middle East, Hazel Hill welcomes enquiries about projects and funding.
For more information about Cardiff ad South Wales: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/cardiff/somethingforeveryone/index.html
Author: Hazel J Hill April 2009
It has often been said that problems are challenges to be seized and opportunities for innovation and progress, and this must surely be true of the issues facing both the world’s economy and ecology in the 21st century.
The inexorable shift from dependence upon oil is upon us. It will be all but gone by the end of the 21st century, we are told. In addition, the release of so much carbon - ‘stored sunlight’ - is affecting the planet’s ecosystems. Everywhere, articles are written, programmes made, films released and pleas made by individuals and organisations pledged to raise awareness of the seriousness of the situation, in the hope of changing not just hearts and minds, but policies and behaviours from the top to the bottom, governments to individuals.
No one can ignore the impact of oil – or the prospect of the lack of it. From food to machinery, transportation and travel, most mass-use products and services are somewhere dependent upon energy and infrastructure powered by oil.
It is clear that the message has been heard and alternatives adopted by major Middle East companies building new cities and large infrastructure projects. The embedding of ‘alternative’ technologies – although for quite how long they will be called ‘alternative’ is debatable – is evident.
Continuing innovation in this sector is essential, and collaboration with the new technology companies around the world is a successful model, reminding us of the old adage about something coming together successfully being ‘greater than the sum of its parts’.
Advances in energy production often bring changes in the landscape. The need for more electricity brought hydro-electric power into focus and with it the construction of the iconic Hoover Dam in the US. Completed in 1935, it was both the world's largest electric-power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure. Now, immense wind turbines populate lonely hillsides and coastlines in many parts of Europe, dividing the population into ‘love them’ or ‘hate them’ groups.
Access to solar energy is now possible for individuals and businesses, as additions to existing buildings, and as part of a growing toolkit for new, environmentally friendly, ecologically sustainable buildings, cities and industrial complexes. Organisations commissioning such projects realise that they have the power to shape the future as well as the responsibility to make meaningful changes, impacting on a whole raft of issues from construction materials and methods to waste management and future energy consumption.
The world of faith might look to a higher power for wisdom. The perfection of the natural order, its harmony and balance, teach mankind the lesson of working with the forces of nature rather than fighting the earth for its resources, endangering the very natural order so necessary for the preservation of life. Indeed, it could be said that all mankind wonders at the beauty of the earth, regardless of their religious affiliation.
Hazel Hill, Founder and Managing Director of Hazel Young Ltd, is committed to supporting projects that further the development and implementation of technologies that impact on clean energy production, reduce pollution and make a contribution to future stability in meeting the growing demand for energy in the developing and developed world.
The current financial crisis presents us with a unique opportunity to begin the transition to a low carbon economy. It will provide space to question the short-term thinking that has plagued the world at large for decades and to invest in real change. This will bring with it challenges to sustain the economy, demanding unprecedented leadership, robust policies, decisive action and a new way of thinking, from Government to CEOs, across the world.
Recently, on this theme, Professor Tim Jackson, economics commissioner for the Sustainable Development Commission, launched a report calling on the UK government to tackle the economic crisis through low carbon recovery measures. Here, he suggests a new way of thinking to meet the challenges that lie ahead. This year is likely to be seen as a defining moment in economic history. The combination of the severest economic recession since the 1930s; increasingly stark warnings about the risk of accelerating climate change; worsening environmental problems and resource shortages, and the threat of widespread social disruption all leave no room for business-as-usual thinking. (http://www.walesonline.co.uk/business-in-wales 06/04/09/)
The importance of implementing new and existing technologies in traditional energy industries is critical – including the treatment of polluted water generated by the oil production process; solar energy generation on a much larger scale; new developments in the transfer of solar energy generated in space, to earth-based distribution points, a strategy for energy generation that has been waiting for decades for the technology to make it possible. Hazel’s company, Hazel Young Ltd, has been involved in a number of strategic developments in the Middle East, including a major project with the Gulf Tanker Company, who are at the forefront of implementing environmentally friendly technology for new projects in the Middle East, including new and existing oil refineries.
Hazel Hill has a passion for networking! But this is networking on a global scale. With a background in accountancy and enterprise development, Hazel has always had a flair for bringing people together where a business opportunity exists. In 2005, Hazel found herself with a need to change her way of working and, as a result, took this networking ability to the global market, using the power of the World Wide Web – truly worldwide in this case! Hazel has been working with a significant network in Europe, the US and the Middle East to bring together major players - innovators, entrepreneurs and fund holders - a ‘golden triangle’ of resources needed to bring projects to life, impacting on the future of clean and sustainable energy production.
Hazel’s interests currently include the development of oil refineries, major construction projects, and solar energy production on an unprecedented scale. Smaller projects are also under discussion – the creation of a new health resort in Turkey, an English school in North Africa, the provision of budget accommodation in Japan, and others. Hazel has demonstrated her credentials in the network and gained the trust of major fund holders, and is now in a position to bring the key elements of projects together.
The current physical and political developments in the Middle East, with the appointment of the first female Minister in the Saudi government, add a new flavour to the mix. As an example of a woman building an entrepreneurial network, Hazel is exploring the possibilities which now exist for discussion about female entrepreneurship and new business incubation, to both of which she is committed, building on the regeneration and enterprise support strategy adopted by the Welsh Assembly Government (devolved government within the United Kingdom) in response to the changing business landscape in Europe.
Based in Cardiff in the Principality of Wales, 150 miles west of London, UK, Hazel has built a reputation of trust in the network. Acting as a ‘broker’ and a catalyst, Hazel operates within open networks (LinkedIn and Ecademy), and closed, exclusive networks. These extensive relationships have developed over 3 years and bring CEOs, decision makers, government representatives, education institutions and entrepreneurs together. One of the things Hazel brings to the group is the ability to draw on the experience of the aftermath of a polluting industry in the Valleys of South Wales – a 100 year old legacy of coal mining and the visible scars of the waste products on the landscape. Seeing the investment needed from the UK and the European Union to mitigate the inheritance of 19th and 20th century wealth generating industries, Hazel has powerful reason to promote the newer, cleaner, technology-enhanced opportunities to create energy and prosperity.
South Wales is also well served by Higher and Further Education Institutions. The ‘third mission’ brief from the UK Government is to make the expertise in these institutions accessible to industry and commerce, and Hazel has links with the University of Glamorgan, based in the heartland of the once-thriving mining valleys of Wales. This University hosts the Centre of Excellence for Electronic Product Engineering (CEPE) as well as the largest Business School in Wales. Hazel has experience of the MSc Female Entrepreneurship at the University of Glamorgan, and also the facility which supports new and small businesses, called ‘GTi’. Cardiff University, University of Wales Institute Cardiff and University of Wales College Newport are other centres of academic expertise within a 20 mile radius.
Hazel is seeking new opportunities for partnership working - projects that need funding and joint ventures; as well as investors who are looking for major projects with long-term benefits based on clean and ethical technologies.
Hazel has located her business in Wales, with its vibrant capitol city, Cardiff. Cardiff’s greatest period of growth began in the 18th century with the development of the coal and iron industries in the South Wales Valleys. In the early 19th century a canal was built to transport the coal from the increasing number of coal mines in the Valleys, and then the Taff Vale Railway linked Merthyr Tydfil and the Rhondda Valleys with Cardiff - at the time the greatest iron and coal exporter in the world. Welsh coal powered the industrial revolution. The resultant growth in population and the immense wealth from coal that was invested in Cardiff helped it win city status in 1905. In the 19th century Coal Exchange, now a legacy of Victorian architecture itself in need of redevelopment, the first ever £1 million cheque was written! As the mining industry in Wales declined in the 20th century, Cardiff transformed itself from a port city into the administrative centre of Wales. In 1955, it was made Capital of Wales, and is now home to the devolved Welsh Assembly Government, and cultural icons such as the Millennium Stadium – home of Welsh Rugby, and the Wales Millennium Centre – home of the Welsh National Opera.
Cardiff is a city famous for its multicultural population and Tiger Bay is known internationally as the historical centre where the cultures met and mixed - 57 countries are represented here and continue to add to the rich diversity of this vibrant city. This part of the new Cardiff Bay is undergoing redevelopment and is demonstrates that communities can be at the heart of construction. The Bute town project is taking into consideration the needs of the wider community in its consideration for energy efficient buildings, the needs of the ageing population and those of people with disabilities. Green policies on waste management are high on the agenda of Cardiff City Council.
Hazel’s experience of living in this area has contributed to her understanding of the cultural nuances in business and enterprise, and drawn her closer to the multinational, multicultural community around her home and across her worldwide network. This knowledge and understanding has played a key role in the development of her international network of entrepreneurs. Bringing people together for collaboration and enterprise, finding projects, partners and funding, wherever the opportunity presents, is the core mission of Hazel Young Ltd.
It has been said that Wales is ‘a network of networks’, a place where collaboration is made easier by the history of close-knit mining communities influencing the present desire to work together for change. Hazel’s networking style reflects this, and so the vision of Hazel Young Ltd reflects Hazel’s own business ethos: to bring people together with the best technologies, a spirit of innovation and enterprise, and the right investment package for the project. Working with agents and partners across the Middle East, Hazel Hill welcomes enquiries about projects and funding.
For more information about Cardiff ad South Wales: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/about/cardiff/somethingforeveryone/index.html
Author: Hazel J Hill April 2009
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Comment by Hazel J Hill on May 11, 2009 at 12:29pm
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Hi Amanda
I have not thought of that webinar. I will have to look into that and how i can do this. this is an editorial that is being published in middle east that is why there is a theme in it for the publisher. It was challenging in writing it, but I pray that I get work from it as well. I was honoured to get invited to do this as well. i did have other heading title one like one woman viw of the world from the vallies of Wales, like In my networking that worked for me. perhaps I should write a few more like this to help people.
do you know much about webinar and how this works and how to set up one.
kind regards
Hazel
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Comment by Amanda Carlin on May 11, 2009 at 11:49am -
Hi Hazel,
You have formed some remarkable contacts, very impressive. Have you thought about running a webinar on networking? If you did, I would be very interested in logging in.
Kind Regards,
Amanda.
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