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As a writer, I focus on projects which will benefit as many people as possible and all life on Earth.
Current project
Meaningful action on climate change is possible. This book explains how you can be part of the solution. Receive step-by-step guidance to help save you money while reducing emissions. Also, discover how to influence and compel corporations and government to reduce emissions in line with the best scientific advice.
CLIMATE CRISIS PLAN Review
Booklife by Publisher's Weekly
Publishers Weekly's November BookLife supplement published on November 14, 2022
With much of the country experiencing record-high temperatures, natural disasters, or other unusual weather events, talking about how to mitigate climate change seems not only timely but essential. In this hands-on, encouraging book, Kent-Hughes (Career Crisis Plan) describes how individuals and organizations can take action to make meaningful progress toward solving the climate crisis. He starts by outlining the severity of the problem, but he doesn’t dwell on doom— instead he offers positive examples showing that when people take action, real change can occur. “Positive change never comes from submission, resignation, or despair. By acting now, we can be less worried about the future and know that we are playing our part in making the world a better place.”
When it comes to solutions, Kent-Hughes offers suggestions that are achievable for most people, which is important in an overtaxing world where everyone is already overwhelmed. Mobilizing a team, for instance, starts simply by having open and honest conversations with family, friends, and neighbors about climate change and reducing emissions. The action items are also broken down into digestible categories—food, production and consumption, energy, and transportation—allowing people to consider their role in the problem and create specific goals. To streamline this process even more, Kent-Hughes provides easy-to-understand graphs, charts, and to-do lists and encourages evaluation of objectives based on the SMART criteria.
For those interested in diving deeper into climate change causes and solutions, Kent-Hughes offers several appendices with more information, as well as the lengthy list of sources he consulted for this book. Sections detailing what he personally has done to change his lifestyle demonstrate that making a difference doesn’t require perfection or grand gestures. It simply necessitates a sustained commitment to doing better and small changes that help make a huge problem seem more manageable.
Takeaway: An encouraging action plan for individuals and organizations in the face of the climate crisis.
Link: https://booklife.com/project/climate-crisis-plan-79969
Past project
Career Crisis Plan was written to help people who have lost their job due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In writing this book, Philip uses his knowledge of emergency and crisis management principles, as well as his experience in interviewing and hiring staff. He also shares his personal experiences of being made redundant.
CAREER CRISIS PLAN Review
Booklife by Publisher's Weekly
Publishers Weekly's November BookLife supplement published on November 23, 2020
"In this timely and informative volume, Australian author Philip Kent-Hughes lays out a sensible roadmap for the newly unemployed reeling from the Covid-19 pandemic and its accompanying economic downturn. Kent-Hughes himself lost his job as a result of the pandemic—and given that it wasn’t his first time being made redundant, he decided to leverage his expertise in writing crisis management plans for large organizations to provide a blueprint for the newly unemployed. Aiming to give shell-shocked readers the ability to take a deep breath and plunge back into job hunting,
Kent-Hughes methodically explains how to explore new career options if the reader’s current industry is devastated, ways to manage finances and inevitable stressors while job seeking, and methods for filling resumés with keywords that will entice prospective employers (and make it past automated screening systems). Kent-Hughes organizes his book in an easy-to-understand format, assisting readers looking for a specific topic (such as emergency and crisis planning, interviews, creating resumes, and developing new career paths) to immediately find it. He also includes eminently practical tools, such as budgeting and application tracking templates, and lists career-minded websites (including Indeed and LinkedIn) designed to propel job leads.
Kent-Hughes’s empathetic tone will go a long way toward calming spooked readers who are worried about both their paychecks and the virus. Any reader trying to muscle through pandemic-related unemployment will find practical, plainspoken, and logical advice in Kent-Hughes’s well-written guide.
Takeaway: Kent-Hughes’s empowering counsel will give readers the confidence and the tools needed to seek new jobs and to overcome the anxiety of sudden unemployment.
Great for fans of: Richard Nelson Bolles’s What Color is Your Parachute?, Steve Dalton’s The Two-Hour Job Search, Jon Acuff’s Do Over."
About - Biography
Philip Kent-Hughes is an author who achieved a business degree and then worked in export and then the training industry. He then worked as a senior consultant in emergency, security, and crisis management for a diverse range of organizations including, education, hospitals, government, and others. In this work, he has written emergency and crisis management plans, and developed exercise scenarios that included responding to a cyber-attack, natural disaster, building collapse, active shooter, and even an escaped dangerous animal from a zoo.
Philip continues to write nonfiction about climate change and speculative fiction from his home in Melbourne, Australia.
