Elon Musk, 36, struck gold with PayPal (a system for paying bills online) during the 90s dot com boom and the South African wunderkind is now the major investor and chair of the board at Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley electric car startup. One of London’s most respected Spanish restaurants, Sagardi serves up Basque delights across a spacious dining room in East London. It had looked certain that the world's politicians would back a US proposal giving the World Trade Organisation the power to override international environment treaties, but he shamed the ministers into voting it down. Aqua Shard combines those stunning views with sophisticated modern British cooking, and offers two semi-private wings - The Tea Wing and The Gin Wing - for groups of 150 and 200 respectively.

Arguably, the best news of 2007 was a promise by China, the world's biggest polluter, to blaze a greener path of development rather than follow in our filthy footsteps.Bolton’s simple, unfussy Italian cooking has made it a roaring success since it opened in the 80s, and there are a couple of areas for groups of 50 plus, including the 100-seater main restaurant, and the Front Area which seats up to 56.

Gavin Schmidt, 38 and British, is a climate modeller at the Nasa Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York. Thanks to his massive celebrity status DiCaprio could be a crucial figure in persuading and leading the next generation. Rather than the two decades or so it can take to bring a drug to market, he envisages his modified micro-organisms producing commercial fuels within just a few years. Some were optimistic that a start had been made; some said that the earth's ecological situation was in a far more perilous state than had been thought.Hard Rock Cafe started right here at Piccadilly Circus, and the rock-star inspired interiors and American diner classics make this an easy choice for a big party. The Lumley Library seats up to 80 guests, and the venue handles all the catering in-house across multiple menus that champion British produce. Women and children then had to spend up to 10 hours a day fetching firewood and water, and the shrinking labour force sapped people's will to maintain the old johads.

Chris Tuppen, BT's head of sustainable development, wrote the company's first environmental report in 1992. Make no mistake, career pivots involve more friction, disruption, and risk than simply staying on a more linear, traditional career path. The author of three influential books, he came up with the phrase "zero waste" - the idea that people can mimic biology and produce, consume and recycle everything without throwing anything away. It secures survival by correcting both fatal poverty and fatal climate change in the same arrangement.The following clarification was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday January 26 2008. Its advantage is that it is far simpler and fairer than the Kyoto agreement, which applied only to a few rich countries," Meyer says. If I have learned one thing," she says, "it is that humans are only part of this ecosystem - when we destroy the ecosystem, we destroy ourselves, for on its survival depends our own. Ken Livingstone, 62, has dragged the capital to the top of the major world cities' environment league. But then the musician, who had played with the LPO and had written for the Royal Ballet, went further.

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. His brief from the Shanghai city authorities may have been simple, but in building and design terms it was the equivalent of a moonshot: to build on an island at the mouth of the Yangtze a city for 500,000 people that can lead the world's fastest growing economy out of the industrial age into the ecological one. 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.Last year ended with the incongruous image of 10,000 politicians, businessmen, activists and scientists from 190 countries emitting vast quantities of greenhouse gases as they flew home from Bali clutching the bare bones of a global agreement on climate change. An iconic London restaurant famous for generous fruit de mer platters and gorgeous marble-decked interiors, Bentley’s also has a hidden gem of a private dining area - the Swallow Street Rooms - which boast a private street level entrance, private bar, piano, state-of-the-art sound system and room for 100 standing guests. British charity Save the Children on Thursday said more than 100 people, including 16 children, had died and hundreds of thousands were forced from their homes in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia due to flash flooding. The work is backed by Dr Debal Deb, an ecologist who has established the only gene bank of indigenous rice in India. Throw in mixologists who know how to make a good cocktail, and TSQ is ideal for fun parties where you want to impress your guests with something a bit different.