PRESS RELEASE: An eco hero for the last 30 years. Award winning environmentalist available for interview.

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Eco inspiration planted by 8 year old grows into leading environmental expert.

Environmental expert, London Leader in Sustainability and environmental journalist available for interview and comment.

This December the Copenhagen talks are being hailed as ‘the most important conference ever held in the history of humanity’. Climate change is now acknowledged as one of the greatest threats to civilization, with everyone from politicians, to supermarkets, to schools and even celebrities catching the green bug - over 30 years after Chantal Cooke.

If living ethically is a fashion statement – Chantal Cooke hit the catwalk aged just eight years old when she wrote her first environmental article. She’s been concerned with sustainability and her environmental impact since childhood, becoming a vegetarian as a teenager in the days when it was still considered ‘weird’ or ‘hippy’. Chantal Cooke was using her journalistic skills to engage and inform people about their impact on the planet while the Government still displayed little recognition of any problem, let alone any appetite for action.

Chantal is an environmental expert, speaker and professional journalist and is available for interview. For example she could discuss why she wrote her first environmental article aged just eight years old, what provoked such an early passion and how she kept her beliefs for over three decades, before turning her passion for the planet into a career. Chantal also has plenty of useful tips to help others live an ethical life without feeling as though you’re giving up all that’s fun in life!

For over 20 years, before starting her company; Passion for the Planet, Chantal worked for the BBC and independent radio stations in the UK and abroad. Chantal has now become one of Britain’s top environmental journalists whose priority is to inform and inspire us to choose a more sustainable, ethical and healthier lifestyle. She does this primarily via the UK’s only environmentally focused radio station, Passion for the Planet, which she co-founded.

In addition to running Passion for the Planet Chantal writes a regular column on ethical living for “The 3rdi” magazine and bi-monthly Eco Tips for “Healthy Living” magazine.

Earlier this year Chantal was appointed a London Leader in Sustainability, launching her ‘Munch Less Meat’ campaign, encouraging London to consume less meat. (Producing 1kg of beef results in more CO2 emissions than going for a three-hour drive while leaving all the lights on at home).

Chantal has received considerable recognition and many awards for her work as an environmental expert and ethical business woman. Her awards include the Triodos Women in Ethical Business Award, The Green Business Award (twice!) in the Green Guardian Awards, as well a British Environment and Media Award (BEMA).

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