50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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Nearly one in five of those listed comes from the US, and one in three is from a developing country, suggesting that grassroots resourcefulness will be as important as money and technology in the future. The Horn of Africa region is experiencing heavy downpours and floods linked to the El Nino weather phenomenon, killing dozens of people and causing large-scale displacement, including in Somalia, where the rains have destroyed bridges and inundated residential areas.

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.Procedures likely to be introduced will include gadgets that ensure you can't leave a running tap, baths that hold less water, gutters that collect water, systems for using waste water for gardens.

Nearly one in three of the people chosen has a scientific background, even if not all practice what they studied. The soft-spoken Englishman, a director of Arup and one of the world's leading bridge builders, is now the master planner of the world's first true eco city. His latest book, The Assault On Reason, takes swipes at the media, cowardly politicians and the Bush administration. Bartholomew, 67, is now heavily influencing the Pope and has shared a green stage with him several times in Rome. Not content with setting existing microbes to work, he wants to create an artificial bacterium, with genes, traits and abilities introduced from beyond nature's catalogue.She was nominated here by Jonathon Porritt: "She is the most inspiring politician the Green party has had since its inception - honest, articulate, passionate. One of London’s most respected Spanish restaurants, Sagardi serves up Basque delights across a spacious dining room in East London. The long years of single-minded lobbying mean that Meyer's idea now has some powerful backers, including, in Britain, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; 180 MPs have supported it in an early day motion, and the government, equivocal so far, is moving towards a version of it. The menu, meanwhile, is staunchly classic pub grub, but brilliantly executed - get ready to eat your weight in scotch eggs, pies, and sticky toffee puddings. It is also the playground of architect Rolf Disch, who builds houses that need to be heated for only a week each year and whose cost is paid for by the electricity generated by the panels on their roofs.

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.We’ve done the legwork for you and rounded-up some of the best private dining spaces in London for 50 guests, so you don’t have to spend a ton of time trawling the internet for room capacities. 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. Then the Guardian's science, environment and economics correspondents met to add their own nominations and establish a final 50.

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. Paul Watson, 57, is the man Japanese whalers, Canadian seal hunters and illegal fishermen everywhere fear the most. But the climate stakes have risen with every new scientific report, and the politicians and environment groups have moved on.The first steps were really to talk to women," she explains, "and to convince them that we could do something about their environment. In south-east England, there is barely enough rainfall now, let alone for the expected population within 20 years. At 2am at the 2002 Earth Summit , he made one of the most impassioned speeches heard at a global meeting.