50 People Who Buggered Up Britain

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Whenever a major flaw is pointed out in the global consensus on climate change, or new evidence is discovered to blame it on the sun, it is always worth checking RealClimate. Last year the company announced it would build its own windfarms to help meet its mammoth demand for electricity, and published a set of ambitious targets which include reductions in the carbon footprints of its employees. More force of nature than wooden presidential candidate now, Al Gore's reinvention as Mr Climate Change is based on a long-standing passion for the environment.

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. He began with gigs outside Exxon offices and protests at the Sydney Olympics about Aboriginal rights, and found himself labelled a turncoat by some at the election.Henry Saragih is a small farmer who has hardly seen his wife and children in 15 years since taking on the Indonesian government and the palm oil barons of Sumatra and Kalimantan. Both the Dining Room and the Courtyard at The Crown Chiswick are big enough to host private dinners of up to 50 guests, and the latter particularly is a lovely al fresco space perfect for long summer lunches and evening dinners. One of London’s more unique private dining spaces, 3 Henrietta Street is a townhouse in Covent Garden that boasts spaces and restaurants across multiple floors.

Glamorous Park Chinois takes inspiration from 1930s Shanghai, and whilst some of the private dining spaces are on the cosy side, you can hire the Salon de Chine or the Club Chinoir for up to 110 or 120 people respectively. Bunker Roy, 62, set up the Barefoot College in India, the only school in the world known to be open only to people without any formal education.Some people made it to the final 50 not just because of their work but because - like the man who has found a simple way to save energy in a refrigerator, or the boy who collects impressive amounts of money for the protection of tigers - they represented a significant grassroots technological or social movement. Last year 1,500 companies were raided and one million cubic metres of illegally felled timber were confiscated. She has worked as a farmer since the age of seven, never went to school and has never heard the words "wheat" or "turnip".