Peter Taylor
PETER TAYLOR has two Oxford degrees but left academia in 1978 and – ‘blessed with companions of a similar mind’ – set up operations to clean the oceans and atmosphere. His organization – the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group (1976–1992) worked for citizens’ initiatives against dangerous developments – some were stopped, like the Plutonium Economy, the dumping of nuclear waste at sea and Acid Rain. Other toxic policies were transformed through the instigation of Clean Production...
