My work - environment | Duncan Fisher

My work - environment

June 26th, 2009

2007-present

I was involved in the creation of the Green Thing. Go there now and do the green thing! I am a Trustee of the Green Thing Trust.

I am helping out with Project Genie on a voluntary basis - a fantastic educational package on global warming for primary school children. Schools doing the programme end up saving loads of money on their energy bills and sorting out their parents too.

1994-2008

I created Action for Conservation through Tourism, later renamed the Travel Foundation, with Jimmy Skinner and Sue Hurdle. I was CEO, then a Trustee.

1989-1995

I created East West Environment, an information agency about environmental conditions in post-communist central and eastern Europe. I was studying east European politics and economics at the time, and managed one of the revolutions - I was in the streets when the Bulgarian Communist Government fell on 3 November 1989.

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Tom 04/26/2009 10:46 AM 1 point
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Would love to hear more about 'managing a revolution'! Any plans to tell some stories from your time there?

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Duncan 04/26/2009 12:59 PM 1 point
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Well, I managed to get to one of the revolutions - it was Bulgaria, 3 November 1989 (my birthday) I was attending an international governmental conference on the environment - one of those stage managed US-Soviet events at which everyone talked about world peace and hated each other. The clever illegal opposition in Bulgaria decided to adopt the environment as a hook for their protest and decided it would be clever to stage a revolution while the Americans and West Europeans were in town. It worked. The demonstrations came onto the street the moment the conference started and Zhivkov was gone within days. I recall two things in particular: attending the rallies in the local theatres - the most exciting human events I have ever been involved in - and having a long academic discussion in the middle of all the chaos about the nature of bureuacracy with one of the leaders of the opposition, the most surreal conversation of my life.

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