50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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One of Venter's more controversial suggestions for tackling environmental problems involves a synthetic lifeform. In 2005, renewables produced one sixth of the world's total electricity and a third of new electricity. 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. But over time they realised how the soil was retaining its fertility, how the crop was free from diseases and pests. One of the worst was the attempted sidelining of the man who has done more than anyone to secure that promise.

It won't save the planet, but it offers a perfect example of the simple steps that can make a difference. The most unsettling periods of my own life have been when I made a major career change, whether that involved quitting medical school to pursue a career in business, relocating from San Francisco to London, or leaving the corporate world to start my own career consultancy. 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. Last year ended with the incongruous image of 10,000 politicians, businessmen, activists and scientists from 190 countries emitting vast quantities of greenhouse gases as they flew home from Bali clutching the bare bones of a global agreement on climate change. 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.

How this struggle plays out in the next 20 years will determine whether there is any rainforest left intact south-east Asia in 50 years' time, and possibly the political future of many developing countries. It's not a definitive list and there are no rankings, but these 50 names give a sense of the vast well of people who represent the stirrings of a remarkable scientific and social revolution, and give us hope as we enter 2008. The expected rains between 21st and 24th of November … may cause more flooding which could cause death and destruction.

However, he was nominated here by Jonathon Porritt, for being "instrumental in shaping the Australian Labour party's climate change and environment policies". 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.She's not so popular with Greens, who accuse her of being a lackey to nuclear power and a friend of Bush, but they accept that she gets things done.