My Work

Projects

• My Analog Life
  Confessions of a luddite fighting screen addiction
• Plant Seeds
  https://plant-seeds.net Plant Seeds is a project that I have run between November 2023 and November 2025.… Read more: Plant Seeds
• Schneider Electric Sustainability Business
  In September 2023 I was hired by ‘EcoAct’, a Paris headquartered sustainability consultancy and carbon project… Read more: Schneider Electric Sustainability Business
• Liberton Northfield Parish Church
  Sustainability Planning in a Religious Context Through October to December 2021 I had the pleasure in… Read more: Liberton Northfield Parish Church
• Untitled Oats
  Untitled Oats was an oatmilk company that I, with the excellent Alex Baldwin, started in early… Read more: Untitled Oats

Essays

• Agroecology and Organic agriculture as sustainable food systems
  Callum McCadden – 3411 words … Critically examine the claims that agroecological and organic systems of agricultural production can contribute to creating more ecologically sustainable food systems, as well as for achieving food security and supporting the livelihoods of small-holder… Read more: Agroecology and Organic agriculture as sustainable food systems
• Do complementary currencies contribute towards sustainability goals?
  Continuing the trend of publishing my old essays. Here is one I wrote on complementary currencies. Overall I like the piece, but I feel the ending is a somewhat surface level analysis of crypto and full reserve banking. … A… Read more: Do complementary currencies contribute towards sustainability goals?
• How do the tastes of ‘meatiness’ in mock meats influence their consumption and the consumer’s dietary identity?
  By Callum McCadden – Word count: 1999 Introduction Animal agriculture has been increasingly implicated in having a primary role within the ecological and climate crisis (Garnett et al., 2017). As a response, plant-based diets have been assessed to be one… Read more: How do the tastes of ‘meatiness’ in mock meats influence their consumption and the consumer’s dietary identity?
• Resilience vs Vulnerability Analysis
  The following short answers were my response to a class assignment in late 2018. Short and sweet, I think it quickly illustrates the issues with ‘resilience’ and its apolitical nature. … From a resilience theory perspective, in what ways can… Read more: Resilience vs Vulnerability Analysis
• The geopolitics of shipworms
  CALLUM MCCADDEN – 2000 WORDS One of the greatest parasites in all human history is now forgotten. Naval museums are full of triumph of how we bested the oceans; from perilous expeditions to massive cargo ships that backbone the globalised… Read more: The geopolitics of shipworms
• The neo-colonial plunder of West African fisheries
  BY CALLUM MCCADDEN WORDS: 2047 It has been a few years since I originally wrote this piece. It was created and researched in 2018 as part of my university degree. I’m sad to report after a quick google it appears… Read more: The neo-colonial plunder of West African fisheries
• Towards an Explanatory Model for UK Food Security: Testing Veganism as a Variable
  My dissertation submitted in fulfilment for my degree in MSc: Risk, Disaster and Resilience at the Department (formerly Institute) of Risk and Disaster Reduction, University College London.