Jeremy Leggett, a geologist by training, began his career as a consultant for the oil industry, while teaching at the Royal School of Mines . His research on earth history was funded by oil companies BP and Shell, among others. He later became an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace, before evolving into a social entrepreneur and author.

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  • Jeremy Leggett, a geologist by training, began his career as a consultant for the oil industry, while teaching at the Royal School of Mines . His research on earth history was funded by oil companies BP and Shell, among others. He later became an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace, before evolving into a social entrepreneur and author. He has written several books including Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis and The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era (Penguin, 1999). These books examined the issues of oil depletion and global warming. He spent the 1980s in the service of Big Oil, as a geologist and faculty member of the Royal School of Mines in London, and the 1990s as top campaigner for Greenpeace International. Jeremy Leggett later became the founder and is currently executive chairman of Solarcentury the UK’s largest independent solar electric company. Leggett is one of a number of entrepreneurs who have started a renewable energy business. Other successful self-starters in the sector include Shi Zhengrong, Tom Dinwoodie and Tom Lerner. He also serves as a founding director of the world's first private equity fund for renewable energy. From 2002 to 2006, Leggett was a member of the UK Government Renewables advisory board. He was a campaigner on climate change for Greenpeace International from 1989 to 1996. He was the recipient of the President's Award of the Geological Society, and in 1987 the Geological Society's Lyell Fund. He has called for a mass withdrawal from fossil fuels and advocates that coal should be left in the ground. Leggett has been critical of the lack of reporting by the British mainstream media on the economic imperatives of climate change abatement. Leggett is known for his support of microgeneration technology in the fight to abate global warming. Since 2007 Leggett has been a regular columnist for Sublime Magazine - the world's first international sustainable lifestyle magazine. Sublime is a portrait format, glossy publication aimed at the main stream market.
  • Jeremy Leggett je britský geolog, spisovatel, podnikatel a bývalý ekologický aktivista. Vystudoval geologii a v 80. letech 20. století působil jako konzultant významných ropných firem. Později však spolupracoval s ekologickými organizacemi a v letech 1989 až 1996 byl vedoucím klimatické kampaně Greenpeace International. Později se Leggett stal zakladatelem a výkonným ředitel největší britské nezávislé firmy v oblasti solární energetiky Solarcentury. V letech 2002 až 2006 byl členem britské vládní Rady pro obnovitelné zdroje energie (Renewables advisory board).
  • Jeremy Leggett geológiatanár, olajszakértő, társadalmi aktivista, két könyv szerzője, a Solar Century vállalat vezérigazgatója.
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  • Leggett at public discussion and book signing, August 2007
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  • Jeremy Leggett, a geologist by training, began his career as a consultant for the oil industry, while teaching at the Royal School of Mines . His research on earth history was funded by oil companies BP and Shell, among others. He later became an environmental campaigner for Greenpeace, before evolving into a social entrepreneur and author.
  • Jeremy Leggett je britský geolog, spisovatel, podnikatel a bývalý ekologický aktivista. Vystudoval geologii a v 80. letech 20. století působil jako konzultant významných ropných firem. Později však spolupracoval s ekologickými organizacemi a v letech 1989 až 1996 byl vedoucím klimatické kampaně Greenpeace International. Později se Leggett stal zakladatelem a výkonným ředitel největší britské nezávislé firmy v oblasti solární energetiky Solarcentury.
  • Jeremy Leggett geológiatanár, olajszakértő, társadalmi aktivista, két könyv szerzője, a Solar Century vállalat vezérigazgatója.
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