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Donnachadh McCarthy
As a Southwark Councillor and a resident, Donnachadh participated and
implemented the local Unitary Development Plan for over 12 years, which
has led to a cutting edge eco-planning framework in the borough. He successfully
led many campaigns to save local open spaces and as a member of the council's
planning committee, he was instrumental in getting the council to be
the first to impose planning conditions requiring composting facilities
and rainwater storage.
He was elected to the Liberal Democrats Federal Executive for the years
1996-2004, and Deputy Chair of the party from 2002-4. He was instrumental
in introducing environmental auditing in 1997, greening the party's headquarters,
and served national level policy development committees, where he successfully
piloted through the adoption of many progressive environmental policies
Alongside his environmental and political campaigning, he has greened
his own lifestyle believing it essential that one should lead by example.
His house in Camberwell is the only one in the capital with all five
eco-technologies: solar water heating, photovoltaic electricity, catalytic
converter gas fire, wood –burner, wind-turbine and a rain-harvester.
His first book "Saving the Planet
Without Costing The Earth - 500 Simple Steps to a Greener Lifestyle" was published in 2004 and has been in the Amazon top ten environmental best-seller
list for the last 12 months. His environmental journalism has been published
widely and he has featured as eco-auditor BBC2's “It is not easy being
green”.
Donnachadh’s aim is to kickstart the entire non-environmental voluntary
sector into becoming environmentally sustainable, as urgently as possible. Visit
Donnachadh's website. |
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