Green giants

British newspaper The Observer published on Jan. 16 its top-20 list of people “who will be setting the global environmental agenda in the coming year.” Titled “Green giants: the eco power list,” it is a precursor to the U.K.’s upcoming 2011 Observer Ethical Awards presentation—dubbed the “green Oscars.”

On the list:

• New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, who heads up the C40, a climate-change-focused group comprising the leaders of the 40 biggest cities worldwide

• Evo Morales, president of Bolivia

• Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally, who recently unveiled the new Ford Focus Electric

• Actor and sustainable builder Brad Pitt, whose Make It Right Foundation recently built 13 homes in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward

• Joel Salatin, famous Virginia farmer who recently spoke in Chico

• Henry Saragih, chairman of the Indonesian Peasant Union

• Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who got props as the “Emissions Terminator” for his work to cut greenhouse emissions as well as “effectively outlaw[ing] his very own Hummer.”

See the complete list at www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/16/green-power-list-top-20.