LOCATION
NAME
AUDIENCE
AVAILABILITY

AREA /
DISTANCE

TALK TOPICS

BACKGROUND / CONTACT

Barnet

Richard Cutting

Any audience except primary schools.
Day/evening

10 miles around M25 Junction 23

General climate change.

"2ºC or 6ºC - it's up to us!".

Green Party member - stood at local elections. "Normal working guy who wishes to breathe richer air".

email: cutting.richard@googlemail.com
tel: 07930 369 439

Barnet

Nigel Farren

Any audience
Day/evening

Within 20 miles

Microgeneration, energy efficiency, Feed in Tariffs, Renewable Heat Incentive and the Green Deal.

How homeowners, schools, churches, SMEs etc, can benefit from generating their own energy and by insulating their homes and buildings, funded by the Green Deal.

Member of government’s microgeneration strategy working group; DECC’s Community Energy Roundtable; DECC / EEPH workshops related to energy efficiency/Green Deal, the Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group and Zero Carbon Hub’s consumer marketing steering group.
Member of the management committee, Low Carbon Communities Network.
Chair and speaker at various ‘green’ events. Known to most environmental stakeholders from Association for the Conservation of Energy to WHICH? http://www.energisebarnet.org.uk

email: nigel@energisebarnet.org.uk

tel: 020 8441 6599; 07531 591739

Berkhamsted

Bruce Nixon

Any audience
Day/evening

Herts, Beds, Bucks, London area. Will consider further afield.

Peak Oil, Climate Change and Sustainability inc. creating a fairer, more sustainable and less violent world, creating sustainable workplaces, creating a happier, more balanced way of life. Discussion encouraged.

"Making sense of peak oil, climate change and sustainability", "Making sense of globalisation".

A veteran "change agent", author, facilitator, speaker, business school teacher, activist, researcher and mentor. Wide corporate experience.
Has written many articles and his latest book "A Better world is possible – what needs to be done and how we can make it happen" is available as a free PDF at: www.brucenixon.com/betterworld.html
and is published by O-Books as a book and E-book.

email: brucenixon@waitrose.com
tel: 01442 863424

Central

Anthony Day

Business gatherings - professional fee required.

Day/evening

All UK for business audiences

Climate change, energy security, peak oil.

 

FCMA - speaker, broadcaster and author of book “Will climate change your life?”. Specialises in energy and climate change issues.
website at www.anthony-day.com
Writes blogs at: http://anthonyday.blogspot.com/
Sustainable business podcast at: www.susbiz.biz

email: mail@anthony-day.co.uk
tel: 01904 654986; 07803 616877

Central

Dave Hampton

Any audience
inc. business
Day/evening

100 mile radius of Marlow, inc. all London area.

The Carbon Story, The Big Picture.
Where does all the CO2 come from?
How can we get off our addiction to fossil fuel?

A positive approach, leaving people with a feel-good factor.

"Dave's delight is helping the world come off its addiction to fossil fuel...one by one...one on one. A Cambridge engineer and former international rower (1982/83), Dave is a well known public speaker. Also provides life-style coaching - helping influential individuals trim their 'home' carbon dioxide bubble - saving cash - while enhancing personal reputation and leadership potential".
www.carboncoach.com

email: dave@carboncoach.com
tel: 07768 806 451

Central

Polly Higgins

Any audience
Day/evening

London, UK, abroad

Making Ecocide a Crime and Earth Rights.

Polly is an expert on Earth Law and speaks on local as well as national and international platforms. She is the award-winning author of 'Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of our Planet' which won the People's Book Prize for non-fiction in 2011.

www.eradicatingecocide.com www.pollyhiggins.com

email: pollyhiggins@mac.com
tel: 07515 389 066

Central

Tamsin Omond

Any audience
Day/evening

Reasonable distance

Involvement in the campaigns Climate Rush, Plane Stupid and Climate Camp.

The role of the media in dealing with climate change.

Founder member of the Climate Rush women-led activist group that takes inspiration from the Suffragettes.
Active in Plane Stupid's campaigns (dropped banners off Parliament roofs).
Has a unique relationship with the media to draw attention to the climate crisis.
Her first book, 'Rush: the Making of an Activist', is due out in October 2009.

email: tamsinomond@googlemail.com
tel: 07878 535968

Central

Matthew McLuckie

Any audience Day/evening

London area, also 20 miles from Caterham.

Carbon offsetting and the relationship between the developed and developing world. ie. how climate change affects us all.

"Climate change is the opportunity to make a difference".

Charcoal markets Africa: Dependency on a diminishing resource and the alternative opportunities. The importance of micro finance and off grid energy solutions in combating climate change in Africa.

Carbon Africa, sustainable or sensationalist?

Director and founder of Sustainable Carbon Solutions, developing environmental efficiency projects in South & Eastern Africa and in South America.
MA Hons in Geography from University of Edinburgh. Focused on climate change. 

email: matthew@sustainablecarbonsolutions.com
tel: 07738 985 604

Central

Paul Williams

Adult groups, sixth forms
Day/evening

London, Reading, Oxford, or reasonable distance by train
 

All aspects of climate change.

Can speak authoritatively and accessibly on all aspects of climate science:

'Climate science from a climate scientist'.
 

Research fellow and lecturer in climate science at Reading University. Oxford graduate with a first-class physics degree and PhD in atmospheric and oceanic physics.  Has published widely in scientific literature; recently lead author of a climate change report commissioned by the European Parliament. Recently described in Sunday Times as "one of the best young scientists working in Britain today".
www.met.reading.ac.uk/~williams

email: p.d.williams@reading.ac.uk
tel: 0118 378 8424 (work)

Enfield

Douglas Coker

Any audience
Day/evening

Reasonable distance; public transport preferred.

Aspects of climate change: background, the politics, the psychology. Also peak oil.

The need to debate the pursuit of traditional "business as usual" economic growth.

Fifteen years lecturing in Further Education. Long experience with public speaking. Active in Enfield Green Party.

email: douglasfcoker@blueyonder.co.uk
tel: 020 8351 7975; 07973 506288

Greenwich

Nathan Allen

Any audience
Day/evening

London, South-east, anywhere by train in reach of London or Cambridge

The Arctic (or Antarctic), polar expeditions, the science of climate change, melting icecaps & glaciers, what you can do.

Tales of polar bear attacks, crashing an icebreaker, swimming in the Arctic Ocean – showing the effects of climate change in a novel and intriguing manner.

In 2009, 19-year old Nathan completed an epic trek to the North Pole, raising environmental awareness, money for charity, and inspiring young people.

He speaks about the challenges facing both himself and the environment, with a unique message.

e-mail: nathan@nathan-allen.com

Hertford

Piper Terrett

Business audiences,
adult groups,sixth forms & secondary schools.

Day/evening

London & Herts

Coping with and adapting to climate change – the risks & opportunities.

Communities and climate change.

A financial journalist and green living blogger, Piper writes the Frugal Life blog for MSN.co.uk and is the Energy Saving Trust’s Green Voice of the UK. Experienced at interviewing company executives as a City journalist and speaking to MPs in her Green Voice role, along with TV appearances.
Piper is a member of the Billericay Greening Campaign committee. www.piperterrett.co.uk

email: piperterrett@googlemail.com
tel: 01992 538442; 07815 053240

Southwark

Veronica Broomes

Adult groups, inc.businesses, schools, charities and social enterprises
Day/evening

Southwark, Greenwich, Lewisham, Tower Hamlets and other boroughs in Central, South, East London

Talks to businesses and schools to help reduce operating costs by increasing efficiency of resource use (energy, water, waste, travel), improving waste management, promoting sustainable procurement and being more eco-friendly.

Consultant on environment and sustainability issues.
Promotes sustainability and eco-friendly living for businesses, schools and charities.

e-mail: ver412@hotmail.com
tel: 0208 469 3293; 0783 470 4259