50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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In just over a year, in one of the largest mobilisations of people for a cause since the Asian tsunami, 1. China is trying to use ecological efficiency to detach resource use from economic growth, the traditional development path. It has also been one of the cheapest regenerations of a region ever known - in Rajastan, villages have been brought back to life sometimes for just a few hundred pounds, far less than the cost of the single borehole that almost destroyed them. Hard Rock Cafe started right here at Piccadilly Circus, and the rock-star inspired interiors and American diner classics make this an easy choice for a big party.

Carlo Petrini, 58, is the only anti-McDonald's activist who has been welcomed to the offices of David Cameron, David Miliband, Prince Charles, Al Gore and Barack Obama. 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. Aqua Shard combines those stunning views with sophisticated modern British cooking, and offers two semi-private wings - The Tea Wing and The Gin Wing - for groups of 150 and 200 respectively. Within days of his taking office, Australia signed up to the Kyoto climate change treaty, and has broken with the obstructivist policies of President Bush. Bongo set up 13 new national parks, covering more than 10,000 sq miles, thus immediately protecting 10% of the country.Some were optimistic that a start had been made; some said that the earth's ecological situation was in a far more perilous state than had been thought. Today, Devi has farmers queueing up for seeds at her project's base, a 40-acre farm in the foothills of the Himalayas in Dehradun. Not only does he lead a union of several million agitated Indonesian peasants, but he also heads Via Campesina, the global movement of increasingly militant peasant farmers which campaigns for land reform in 80 countries. Swapping global rice supply to the GM version, the company says, would save the equivalent of 50 million tons of carbon dioxide each year.

Beyond its chic interiors and mouth watering menu, The Railway Pub in Putney also boasts space, and lots of it. Singh found that the villages no longer used small earth dams - or johads - to collect surface water but instead now relied on "modern" tube wells.The final edit of the interview itself was fairly soft in tone, but it did include questions that now seem ahead of their time - namely, about the science of climate change, the lobbying power of Big Oil, ways to decrease the use of SUVs and how vulnerable New Orleans was to sea-level rises. Hermann Scheer, 43, is the MP who persuaded the German government to get rid of nuclear power and invest heavily in renewables such as wind and solar power. 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.

During the filming of The Beach, the bestselling novel about backpackers seeking a shangri-la off the Thai coast, the production team was accused of damaging a pristine beach in a national marine park - in an attempt to make it look even more "perfect" for the cameras, some palm trees were temporarily planted and sand dunes moved. One of Venter's more controversial suggestions for tackling environmental problems involves a synthetic lifeform. Maathai has succeeded in putting deforestation high on the agenda in developing countries, just as Al Gore made people in rich countries aware of climate change. Riding House is well known for its easy-going all-day fare and epic brunch menus, and this Fitzrovia institution can be yours exclusively - the dining room at Riding House Fitzrovia is available for private hire and fits north of 50 guests, offering trendy, welcoming interiors and delicious food. Since then his lead has been followed by thousands of other companies, yet BT has managed to stay one step ahead.Countries have fallen over themselves to plant the most and be linked with Maathai: Indonesia planted 79m in a day; Turkey says it has planted 500m, Mexico 250m, and India says that it will replant six million hectares of degraded forest.

It won't save the planet, but it offers a perfect example of the simple steps that can make a difference. On Saturday, the United Nations humanitarian agency OCHA said the number of people displaced by heavy rains and floods in Somalia “has nearly doubled in one week”. She was in the US accepting an award when a businessman told her that his company was planning to plant a million trees.Pan Yue, 47, deputy director of the state environmental protection administration, has become a hero for his willingness to stand up to corporations and local governments that jeopardise public health in the rush for economic growth.