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Tim Root is a local group co-ordinator for Friends of the Earth in London, UK. Tim’s work on climate campaigns has previously been published by the Ecologist, Left Foot Forward, Open Democracy, and other magazines. He is author of Love, Empowerment and Social Justice: Personal Relationships and Citizen Action (Open Gate Press, 2005), which has a preface by Oliver James.
