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Jul 02 2008

New E3G Office: Visitor Directions

By Meera Shah

Our transition from our old home in the Science Museum is now almost complete, and right now we’re busily unpacking boxes at our new office in Borough High Street.

Attached here in pdf format for download are our updated directions for visitors.

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E3G Office: Visitor Directions

Visiting E3G

The new E3G office is located at 210 Borough High Street, just 20 metres

Jun 25 2008

E3G Office Move – 1st to 3rd July 2008

By Meera Shah

E3G is moving!

After 3 years in the Science Museum, we’ve grown to such an extent that we need more room.

So, our long-awaiting office move is now imminent. Painters and carpet-layers are currently preparing our new space, and we’ll be migrating en masse next week to our new location on Borough High Street.

The days of Monday 1st to 3rd July will be the key moving days, and there may

Apr 09 2008

Nick Mabey joins Eco-Towns Challenge Panel

By E3G Admin

E3G Chief Executive Nick Mabey is one of 12 experts who will provide advice on the development of a series of new eco-towns in the UK.

The panel’s role will be to recommend potential improvements to each developer for their eco-town proposals. The panel will not be responsible for assessing proposals or judging their relative merits. The Government will be responsible for assessing the

Oct 30 2007

New arrivals, new adverts, and a goodbye

By Chris Littlecott

Our batch of job adverts back in August resulted in a huge response - we received over 100 applicants for the researcher position alone. We’ve now completed hiring for those positions, and new staff members will be joining us shortly, starting later this week. Biographies will follow just as soon as the new arrivals are through the door.

We’re also now starting recruitment on 2 programme

May 11 2007

Invitation: Tom Burke lecture on Nuclear Power

By Victor Aguilera

The Environmental Law Foundation annual lecture for 2007 will be given by E3G Founding Director Tom Burke on Thursday 17 May at 6.00 pm.

The lecture will be entitled is ‘Nuclear inevitable? Policy and politics for a carbon constrained world’, and will take place at the Law Society, 113 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1PL.

The evening will be an important opportunity to examine the issues

Mar 27 2007

Jobs at Chatham House: Energy and Climate Security Project

By Chris Littlecott

Chatham House is an independent London-based foreign policy think-tank and one of the world’s leading organisations for the analysis of international issues.

Chatham House’s Energy, Environment and Development Programme, in co-operation with E3G, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Chinese Energy Research Centre, is embarking on a major programme of research on the

Mar 09 2007

E3G Staff News Update

By Chris Littlecott

Over the last couple of months the E3G team has had a few more arrivals and departures.

Firstly, the departures...

We’d like to wish our former researcher Diana Parusheva all the best as she gets settled into her new role at AEA Group (Energy and Environment). Thanks for all your input to our work on Europe and Climate over the last 18 months.

From our intern intake of late 2006 Joana

Jan 08 2007

The perils of a short distance cyclist

By Chris Littlecott

The scene:
Milton Keynes, the most cycle-friendly city in the UK. A quiet road, no traffic.

Characters:
Chas Middlecroft, a young website editor on his first day in a new city;
his new green bicycle;
er, that’s it.

ACT I

(Enter Chas on bicycle)

(Chas pulls the front brake before the back one and flies over handlebars)

Chas: “Ow!”

THE END

Apologies for the slow start to the

Dec 20 2006

A year in review: E3G in 2006

By Martin Rands

And so, as another generation of over-fed turkeys while away their time, wondering what all the excitement is about and hoping they don’t miss out on the fun, it’s time to look back on another eventful E3G year.

Spring – arrivals and departures

Kicking off the year in the appropriate manner, three of our first batch of interns, Marina Brutinel, Diana Parusheva and Simon McSweeney,

Oct 17 2006

New interns join E3G

By Chris Littlecott

We’re delighted to announce the arrival of 3 new interns to the E3G team. They’ll be working with us until Christmas, and will be contributing in particular to our work on Europe in the World and Climate and Energy Security.

Here’s a quick introduction to our new colleagues:

Victor Aguilera

Víctor has a BSc in Environmental Science from the University of Alcalá de Henares (UAH) Madrid. He

Sep 07 2006

Jennifer Morgan joins E3G

By Chris Littlecott

Jennifer Morgan, Director of WWF’s Global Climate Change Program, will join E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) on October 1st as Climate Change Programme Director. In her new post, she will focus her work on efforts to deliver a step-change in the international response to climate change – with a clear link to energy security and foreign policy.

Ms Morgan joins E3G in this new

Sep 06 2006

New E3G website launched

By Chris Littlecott

Welcome to E3G’s new website.

E3G may not be a thinktank, but we do invest heavily in shared thinking. We want our website to be a hub for information exchange, discussion and collaboration for the wider community of third generation environmentalists.

Articles, reports and comment

We’ve begun the process of posting articles and event reports from the back catalogue we’ve built up over the

Jun 28 2006

John Ashton’s new appointment: Global Media Response

By Chris Littlecott

The announcement earlier this month that E3G Chief Executive John Ashton is to join the UK Foreign and Commonwealth office as Special Representative for Climate Change has been picked up around the world.

The story was first reported by BBC news online, and made the webpages of The Mirror as ‘DIPLOMAT ON GLOBAL WARMING’.

The Reuters report has been published by both Gulfnews.com and The

Jun 08 2006

John Ashton appointed UK Special Representative for Climate Change

By Chris Littlecott

John Ashton, Chief Executive of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism), has been appointed as the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office announced today.

John Ashton will support Mrs Beckett and UK Ministers in helping to build a stronger political foundation for international action on climate change. He will work closely