50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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Companies with links to government are devastating vast areas of Indonesia and southeast Asia to grow palm oil to supply Europe's cars and kitchens with biofuel and cooking oils, and Saragih is one of the few people standing in their path. Salomon, 47, says that by 2010, at least 10% of all the energy consumed in Freiburg will come from renewables. Ma Jun, 39, became an environmentalist in 1997 after hearing Chinese engineers boast that the Yellow River was a model of water management, even though he knew it was so over-dammed and exploited that it failed to reach the sea on more than 200 days each year.

But Petrini, an Italian leftie of the old school, has a far more serious purpose than saving the pilchard or Parma ham. Paternoster Chop House gives off a sophisticated vibe with its bright red tiling and emerald chairs, and the menu is up to scratch too with classic dishes cooked on Josper grills over charcoal. It is a thought experiment that imagines a world without a biosphere, and shows that everything we value depends on the ecosystem.

And once the rains eventually came, not only did it fill to the brim, but a nearby long-dry well began flowing again. He's working with the Pentagon, which spends nearly a third of its vast budget on moving troops and equipment around. Ngongo, 36, is a biology academic from Goma, who has travelled the country investigating the corrupt timber industry and taken his findings to London, Washington and Brussels.

Larger parties should check out private hire of the whole venue, which opens up all the unique spaces from top to bottom of the townhouse, as well as giving you a huge range of food options. One of Venter's more controversial suggestions for tackling environmental problems involves a synthetic lifeform.A mix of modern technology and villagers simply neglecting traditional ways of conserving water had led to an ecological disaster.

Despite the tight controls imposed on independent organisations by the Communist party, there are now 3,000 registered green NGOs, up from fewer than 50 five years ago.I showed him pictures of surfing hippos, gorillas in clearings, elephants in the forest and gorillas and chimpanzees caressing their young. No one can doubt the persuasive powers of Wangari Maathai, Nobel peace prize-winner and 67-year-old former assistant minister of the environment in Kenya. The banks are seen as an insurance against changing conditions, such as climate, new pests or consumer demand. Apart from collecting and storing seeds from all over the country, Devi is teaching farmers, distributing seeds and experimenting with them. Evidently stung by the criticism, in 1998 DiCaprio established the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, which has since collaborated with the likes of the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Oceana, the Natural Resources Defence Council and the Dian Fossey Foundation to raise awareness, particularly among children, of environmental issues.