Oliver Dudok van Heel

First and foremost I'm a Dad to Noah, Jaia & Sofia and husband to Sacha. We live in the Sussex countryside in the UK, where we enjoy the clean air and long walks and the occasional homegrown organic vegetable. Music is my oxygen and sport is my release.
Career wise, I spent most of my career advising multinationals on being more responsible but was disillusioned by the speed of change. Greenvoice gave me an opportunity to make a change by taking action and increasing the global consciousness around the urgency to tackle issues of environmental and social justice.

My environmental objectives: To leave behind a world my kids and ensuing generations can treasure.

People I admire: Sacha, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dalai Lama, Mohamed Yunus

Things I would like to change: Are there any I don't care about? My main areas of concern are climate change, peak oil, industrial agriculture (including GM) and the 6th global extinction.

Activities: Chief Operating Officer of Greenvoice.com, Member of the UKs Amnesty International Business Group, Tutor at the University of Cambridge’s Post-Graduate Certificate on Sustainable Business

Interests: Strumming my guitar - badly; most ball sports; growing organic vegetables; meditation, changing the world and last but foremost, spending quality time with my family.

Favourite music: Good singer-songwriters (Jackson Browne, Indigo Girls, Dylan, Springsteen); Blues (BB King, Clapton, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker).

Favourite films: Shawshank Redemption, Crash

Favourite TV shows: Don't watch much TV, but will happily make an exception for quality sports.

Favourite books: On The Road, Jack Kerouac; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck; The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, Thom Hartmann; A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle; Soil & Soul, Alastair Macintosh

Favourite quotes: Favorite Quotes:
"Be the change you want to see in the world" - Gandhi
The complete "I have a dream" speech - Martin Luther King

Political views: Green and left-leaning, but with little faith in the traditional political institutions.

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Oliver Dudok van Heel left Megan Douglas a shout (View conversation) (at 06:23 on 17 October 2007).
Megan Douglas left Oliver Dudok van Heel a shout (View conversation):

Hi Oliver,

We are all so much looking forward to seeing you, Sacha and the kids this Xmas. Please pass big xxxx to Sacha for me and tell her I will write soon.

Quick question. We are making ecocert organic skincare in the Hymalayas. I have mainly choosen glass bottles but shampoos, conditioners and body soaps will need to go in plastic. The bottle we have choosen is PETG but has a 7 inside its recycling symbol. Do you know if this is recyclable, I can't find any info on the net?

Ultimately we want to do a bottle exchange program through our distributers, a new set of stores "In Africa Org"...but in the mean time we want to have them as recyclable as possible...

Thanks Oliver...I will be picking your brains this visit and hope to make you our official environmental consultant asap!

(at 18:40 on 11 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign Anti-democratic parking in Lewes E-Sussex (at 10:15 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign Save Radley Lakes (at 10:15 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign Reduce Food Catering Waste At Wimbledon (at 10:15 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign Is your flight really necessary ? (airport watch) (at 10:15 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign GM Crops: The Right to Know (at 10:15 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign Excess Packaging (at 10:14 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel joined the campaign Free Papers? A load of rubbish! (at 10:14 on 05 October 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel added the news story Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt rain forests (at 23:15 on 26 September 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel voted for the story Jane Goodall says biofuel crops hurt rain forests (at 23:15 on 26 September 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel voted for the story EU struggles to walk its talk on climate change (at 23:14 on 26 September 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel added the news story EU struggles to walk its talk on climate change (at 23:14 on 26 September 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel added the news story U.S. climate talks draw world's biggest polluters (at 23:13 on 26 September 2007).
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Oliver Dudok van Heel added the news story China Warns of Three Gorges Dam Catastrophe (at 23:12 on 26 September 2007).
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Oliver Dudok van Heel voted for the story Mixing the oceans proposed to reduce global warming (at 23:11 on 26 September 2007).
Oliver Dudok van Heel added the news story Mixing the oceans proposed to reduce global warming (at 23:11 on 26 September 2007).

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