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Upsetting the Offset
battle to gain planning permission for his own off-grid community in Somerset.
mhannis@ukonline.co.uk
Chris Land is a lapsed biketivist who now lives shackled to a desk at the
University of Essex where he writes about activism instead of actually doing
anything. He wonders whether his cynical mockery of the paradox captured in
Gerard Winstanley’s words – ‘words and writings were all nothing, and must
die, for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act thou dost nothing’ – is
enough to reconcile him to his keyboard-bound existence. cland@essex.ac.uk
Chris Lang is an activist and researcher. He has worked for many years with
the World Rainforest Movement, mainly focussing on the expansion of the pulp
and paper industry in the global South. In addition to regular articles in the
WRM Bulletin, he has written several books and reports, including ‘Plantations,
poverty and power: Europe’s role in the expansion of the pulp industry in the South’, ‘Banks,
Pulp & People: A Primer on Upcoming International Pulp Projects’, ‘“A funny place to
store carbon”: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon national
park, Uganda’ and ‘Genetically modified trees: The ultimate threat to forests’. He is
currently working on a website (www.redd-monitor.org) looking at the rapid
developments in the world of ‘avoided deforestation’.
reddmonitor@googlemail.com
Larry Lohmann works with The Corner House, a UK-based research and
advocacy organization. His books include Pulping the South: Industrial Tree
Plantations in the Global Paper Economy (with Ricardo Carrere) (Zed, 1996) and the
edited volume Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change,
Privatization and Power (Dag Hammarskjold Foundation, 2006). He is a founding
member of the Durban Group for Climate Justice and his articles have appeared
in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Asian Survey;
Carbon & Climate Law Review; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars; Race &
Class; International Journal of Environment and Pollution; Development; New
Scientist; Development and Change and Science as Culture.
larrylohmann@gn.apc.org
Vito De Lucia is an independent researcher with a background in Law from
the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’. He is a founding member of the research
network Eco Pax Mundi, and research associate of the Centro Internazionale
per La Cultura e i Diritti dell’Uomo. His research focuses primarily on
ecological and climate policy, theories of (climate) justice, post-global social and
legal theory and critical approaches to international law. vitodelucia@gmailcom
Nishant Mate teaches in a college in Nagpur, (Mahastrasta), India. He is
also a social activist associated with National Forum of Forest People and
Forest Workers (NFFPFW). He investigated the impacts of several CDM
projects in India. nishant24@gmail.com
Larch Maxey has been practising and researching sustainability since 1986.
l.maxey@swan.ac.uk
Sunita Narain, has been with the Centre for Science and Environment
(CSE) from 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre and the director of
the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly
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