Who Are We

Herbie Girardet B.Sc. Econ. (L.S.E.) is an environmental consultant, writer and filmmaker. A recipient of a UN 'Global 500 Award for Outstanding Environmental Achievements', the main focus of his work is the urgent need to create a sustainable relationship between People and Planet. Since the 1980s he has written extensively in the national and international press. He frequently lectures to diverse audiences in the UK and at conferences around the world.

His most recent book is A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality, co-written with Miguel Mendonca, described by Bill 

McKibben as "... the book we've been waiting for: a thorough, up-to-date and above all, proportionate response to our climatic 

predicament."

Lorna Howarth is Development Director of Artists Project Earth and a member of the Advisory Board. She is also Contributing Writer & Editor at Resurgence, the UK's longest-running environmental magazine, where she writes the regular 'Frontline' feature. Most recently she contributed to a new book on eco-tourism, called Green Places to Stay.

Before joining APE, Lorna was co-editor of Resurgence for eight years, and prior to that, Editor of Positive News and Living Lightly magazine - all publications that reflect on humanity's impact on the planet and alternative lifestyles that are more sustainable, healthy and joyful. She also worked at Green Books, Schumacher Society UK and taught IT at The Small School, an independent secondary school offering a holistic approach to education.

Lorna worked with APE Founder, Kenny Young at Earth Love Fund during the mid-90s, promoting fund-raising album releases on behalf of the charity Earth Love Fund which advocated the conservation of tropical rainforests and indigenous peoples' rights.

Lorna is passionate about the natural world spending as much time as possible gardening and walking in nature. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and runs a small publishing company, The Write Factor, in her spare time.

Following a period assisting on documentary films in the United States in 1987 and 1988, Caspar Henderson worked in Uganda on aid projects, becoming a specialist in environment, development and human rights. From 1992 to 1994 he was the first coordinator of the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy and Understanding at Oxford University. The Centre worked to bridge the gap between science and politics on climate change, biodiversity and related issues. 

In 1995 and 1996 he was a producer and reporter for Costing the Earth, the flagship environment programme on BBC Radio 4 (a UK national network). From 1996 to 2002 Caspar wrote, broadcast and edited articles and stories about energy, environment and human rights. He worked for The Financial Times, The Independent, New Scientist, The New Statesman, The Ecologist, Environmental Finance, Green Futures (as senior correspondent), BBC World Service Radio and others. In 1999 he won an IUCN-Reuters award for best environmental writing in western and central Europe. 

Also from 1996 to 2002 he was also an occasional consultant, analyst and advisor for governmental, commercial and non-profit organizations including: The European Commission, The Environment Select Committee of the House of Commons, BP, Anglian Water, Oxfam and Greenpeace. From 2002 to 2005 he was globalization editor of openDemocracy.net, a project for open global politics, where he commissioned, edited and contributed to analysis and debate on a wide range issues. In 2005 he conceived, organized and edited a global online debate on the politics of climate change, working with prominent scientists, authors and artists from more than a dozen countries. 

Caspar has worked as a trainer and speaker with the BBC, the British Council and other organizations in the UK, the US, Poland, Ireland and Malaysia. His recent books include: Debating Globalization (Polity, 2005), and Fragile Earth: the Beauty of a Planet under Pressure (New Internationalist, 2005). 

At present he is writing a book on the future of the world's coral reefs. He is also commissioning and editing a special on UK climate and energy policy for New Statesman magazine, and preparing a blog on nuclear power for the Institute of Physics. He continues to contribute to other publications internationally and to speak internationally. He is Director of Grains of Sand Ltd, a communications company. He writes two blogs: Grains of Sand and Coral Bones.

Caspar Henderson has an MA from Cambridge University. He speaks some Spanish, French and German. He is a British subject but would prefer to be a British citizen.