Richard Girling
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Richard Girling is a feature writer for The Sunday Times Magazine. Girling was named Specialist Writer of the Year at the 2002 UK Press Awards. He has been a consultant to the former Department of the Environment and Department for Culture Media and Sport. Girling is a current trustee of the Tree Council.
He has published two books ""Rubbish - Dirt on our hands and crisis ahead"" (2005) and ""Sea Change"" (2007) in addition to co-authoring several reports on behalf of CPRE.
He will be debated the future of the countryside with Richard Mabey, Bill Bryson, Sue Clifford and Nicholas Crane at CPRE's 2007 Volunteers' Conference.
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This article about a writer or poet from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Richard Girling a journalist, writes regularly for The Sunday Times Magazine, including a special issue on the future of the English countryside (April 1998) and an investigation into current and future consequences of air pollution (June 1998). He is the author of two novels and an illustrated guide to the structure and history of British landscape (The View from the Top, 1996), and is a contributor to a new Reader's Digest social history of the 20th century. With Caroline McGhie he has written and produced campaign booklets for the CPRE (Campaign for Protecting Rural England) on: -rural architecture (Local Attraction, 1996); -countryside planning (Cluttered Countryside, 1997, winner of the Media Natura award for best national environmental campaign); and -urban regeneration (Going to Town, 1998, in association with the Civic Trust).
