Who Eco-Inspires You?

A really nice article in today's Guardian on the top one hundred green campaigners of all time, compiled by the Environment Agency.

Number one is Rachel Carson, whose book Silent Spring in the 1950s focusing on the DDT pesticide, and credited with inspiring the beginning of the modern popular environmental movement.

Other familiar names (to me, at least):
#3 Jonathan Porritt, head of the UK's Sustainable Development Commission which advises the Government on its sustainable development plans and policy

#6 Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2004 for her work with the Kenyan Green Belt Movement - planting over ten million trees

#9 Al Gore - he may have shot to prominence recently with An Inconvienient Truth, but his environmental interests date back quite a while - read Earth in the Balance, written before he became Vice-President.

#23 George Monbiot - People and Planet's patron and Guardian columnist

#25 Ken Livingstone - Mayor of London who brought in the idea of the congestion charge on a large scale

#32 - Jim Hansen - NASA scientist who came out saying that his warnings to the US Government on climate change were being stifled for political reasons

#56 - Caroline Lucas MEP - Green party politician

#100 - Father Christmas - 'carbon-free delivery'