50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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Our panel included scientists - former World Bank chief scientist and now the British government's scientific adviser on climate change, Bob Watson, Indian physicist and ecologist Vandana Shiva, Kenyan biologist and Nobel prize-winner Wangari Maathai; activists - Guardian columnist George Monbiot and head of Greenpeace International Gerd Leipold; politicians - Green party co-leader and MEP Caroline Lucas, and London mayor Ken Livingstone; sustainable development commissioner for the UK government Jonathon Porritt and novelist Philip Pullman. But over time they realised how the soil was retaining its fertility, how the crop was free from diseases and pests. But he may play a much greater role in the global environment debate as chairman of Eskom, the state-owned power company that runs South Africa's only nuclear plant and, starting in 2008, is hoping to build dozens of fourth-generation small-scale nuclear stations. However, he was nominated here by Jonathon Porritt, for being "instrumental in shaping the Australian Labour party's climate change and environment policies".

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has a fantastic reputation for wine, offering a huge range of great wine by the glass, carafe or bottle, as well as a ‘Collector’s List’ full of rare vintages. The 18th century, Grade-I listed home of the Lord Mayor of the City of London features a few larger spaces for private dinners, including the magnificent Old Ballroom, which fits up to 80 seated guests under its arched ceiling. 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. Arputham has pioneered a way to help the poor negotiate with city authorities to secure land ownership - the greatest barrier to improving slums.

Next up, says Tesla, is a mass-market family sedan that could be fuelled by solar panels on the garage roof. He's working with the Pentagon, which spends nearly a third of its vast budget on moving troops and equipment around.He has so far helped to build more than 8,600 johads and other structures to collect water for the dry seasons.

It's beginning to work, he says: four years ago, more than one in three Londoners used their cars every day; now few er than one in five do.She made a name for herself in 1979 as the 19-year-old revolutionary student who became chief interpreter in the 444-day US embassy siege in Tehran. Elon Musk, 36, struck gold with PayPal (a system for paying bills online) during the 90s dot com boom and the South African wunderkind is now the major investor and chair of the board at Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley electric car startup. In 2004, the Dane made his name as a green contrarian with his bestselling book The Skeptical Environmentalist, and outraged scientists and green groups around the world by arguing that many claims about global warming, overpopulation, energy resources, deforestation, species loss and water shortages are not supported by analysis.