Environmental action call
July 2009
Tom Flood says why it is high time rainforests stopped being a long way from here
In 2001, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report entitled Rainforests are a Long Way from Here [1]. The study found that the general public was ‘unfamiliar with the language of environmentalism’, and that ‘environmental organisations were largely seen as important though little was known about them beyond media stereotypes’.
Author: Tom Flood
Tom Flood is a board member of ACEVO and chair of ACEVO’s sustainability special interest group. Tom is also chief executive of BTCV. He was recently appointed as one of the 16 members of Defra's new Third Sector Task Force on climate change, the environment and sustainable development.
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