50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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If it invested in really energy-efficient goals, in the same way as, say, it invested in the internet, GPS and chips, Lovins says it would shift the entire global energy landscape. There are something like 200,000 people benefiting from 34 similar community seed banks set up in 13 states across the country. Now this Georgian townhouse can be home to your event, with a host of medium to large spaces that are perfect for private dinners, meetings, drinks receptions and more. It was a defining moment in the American debate and forced Bush to regulate carbon dioxide pollution from motor vehicles under the Clean Air Act. Global urbanisation is inevitable, and these new federations will have more and more ecological influence.Gavin Schmidt, 38 and British, is a climate modeller at the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

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In so doing, he has won the ear of the PM and president, whose political mantra of "scientific development" emphasises the need for sustainable, not just rapid, growth, and has helped set ambitious energy efficiency and pollution controls targets. Hosking has clearly tapped into a new public mood and has found that there is no need to wait for governments to effect change. Dozens of other new urban groups are working in 70 countries and hundreds of thousands of people have benefited. Ten years ago, she shocked people when she said Germany should aim to raise the proportion of its electricity generated from renewable energy to 50% by 2050.