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Rivers of Sewage: Britain’s Failing Experiment

Chris Hall

It was the era of privatisation, and investment bankers were getting their heads around a lucrative new asset class: big state-owned infrastructure. Macquarie bought Thames Water back in 2006. But not water.” Thatcher’s great experiment The story of how England’s rivers came to be swimming with effluent begins in the 1980s.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation

In the early 2000s, a number of leaders within the American conservative evangelical community embraced climate change as a priority issue. This shift was initiated when a British climate scientist, who is also a devout Christian, attended a retreat where he met a prominent leader from the American Christian evangelical movement.

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