Rina Jones is East Midlands Co-ordinator and was seconded from the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Local Authorities Energy Partnership (LAEP) in June 2009. She has co-ordinated the partnership's activities over the last three years and prior to this worked in local government as a policy officer and communications consultant for 9 years.

Professional Interests: I am particularly interested in carbon footprinting and how it forms the baseline from which target setting, action planning and monitoring can be developed. I am inspired by the transition movement and set up Transition Matlock with a friend in 2008.

Qualifications: PhD and Hons Degree in Earth Sciences; I also did a post-doc at UEA studying the effect of sea level rise in Norfolk since the ice-age.

Skills: Project initiation and management, research, facilitation, training, public consultation and participation processes, co-ordinating large networks.

Where I've come from: I grew up in Llandudno, North Wales (no-one has ever guessed this from my ‘accent'!), went to college in Cardiff and Liverpool and then worked in Glasgow, Norwich, London, Sheffield and now Matlock Derbyshire.

I like:  Spending time on my allotment, trekking in hot places, eating great food, as local as possible, taking my two young daughters out walking, and really getting to know my local area and how it's changed over the last few hundred years.

A moral I live my life by:  Waste not, want not

How I'm trying to live more sustainably: We stopped flying in 2006; I walk, and scooter with the children to school most days; I've been reading our meters for the last 3+ years and keeping our energy consumption low; we teach our children about sustainability, nature and climate change; I reuse, mend and swap loads of stuff, especially kids stuff.

I believe the greatest threat to our current society and environment is:  Indifference; it makes me think of the frog boiling to death in the pan of water as it heats up.

My 'dirty secret':  I used to work for BP as a oil exploration geologist

It may surprise you to know but . . . I've spent 8 weeks on an oil rig

If things had turned out differently I might have been . . . still there!