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Last year, in 2011, the environmental campaigning organization Friends of the Earth UK celebrated
its 40th anniversary. From July 1972 to June 1978 I was on the full-time staff of the then
newly fledged FOE UK, becoming their first 'energy campaigner'. My 'London Letter',
a lighthearted column for Not Man Apart, the monthly newspaper of US FOE, gives a flavour of those hectic Poland Street days.
In 1984, in The Environmental Crisis, edited by Des Wilson, I contributed a brisk history of the first ten years of FOE UK, entitled
'A Decade Of Friendship'.
In the 1970s I contributed frequent
columns to the US magazine
Environment. In 1974, in the Canadian
magazine Science Forum, I discussed Helping the public judge contentious issues involving science.
In 1982 I revisited the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972.
In
February 1989 I surveyed the
government way with energy and environment. In November 1989
I talked to Oxford students about 'Environmental
Troublemaking'. In 1991 I wondered 'Are we throwing away the planet's future?'.
In 1992 I reflected on 'The commercialization of new technologies'.
Since 1998 I've contributed columns
to Modern
Power Systems.
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