50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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Floor-to-ceiling windows and a highrise view over London make Shangri-La The Shard an intriguing prospect for an event. In the tropics especially, high-rises are traditionally the most unecological of all buildings, often wasting up to 30% more energy than lower structures built with the same materials. Venter has put his army of bugs to work on everything from renewable supplies of energy-rich gases such as methane, to advanced biofuels that don't threaten food production and could be used to fuel aeroplanes. Last year in the US Supreme Court, he defeated the Bush administration's policy of refusing to regulate global warming. He works for Norwegian oil company Statoil which, rather than pay a carbon tax on the 1m tonnes of CO2 it produces a year, has learned to compress it into liquid form, transport it by pipeline out to sea and then inject it into deep, porous rocks, instead of releasing it into the atmosphere.And some got on the list because they were considered the driving forces behind the decision-makers. You can hire the whole space out for up to 120 seated guests, or for smaller events there’s always the basement private dining room which seats 48 and is completely soundproof, boasting an LCD projector and screen. The Garden Room is particularly lovely, offering a private bar and lots of natural light for private dinners of up to 60 people. The speed at which Germany under Merkel is pursuing climate change policies is embarrassing the UK and other countries, which talk up the need for action, but deliver little. But what I've made work really well is massively parallel processes [a system of linked computers tackling problems on a super scale].

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. You can hire the main dining room if you choose, but the best seat in the house is the River View semi-private area, where 50 guests can enjoy sumptuous modern British cooking with views out across the river.An iconic restaurant at Royal Festival Hall, Skylon’s stunning views and soaring art deco ceilings have made it a popular private dining destination for decades. 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. 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.