Andrew Lambrou Charalambous is a London born, environmental activist[1] and is currently the Conservative Candidate for London, Edmonton MP.[2]
Founder and head of the organisation Club4Climate which launched Surya, the world's first ever ecological club whose main feature is a piezoelectric dancefloor which generates electricity by harnessing peoples' movements. [3]
Life
editThe son of Greek parents who hail from Paphos in Cyprus, he went to William Forster School, next to Broadwater Farm. His father served as a soldier in the British Army.
He received a Law degree from Queen Mary College, University of London and went on to become a Barrister-At-Law of the Honourable Society of Grays Inn. He subsequently earned a Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Northern Virginia focussed on reforming the management of the English National Health Service. He also received a Doctorate of Divinity from the Universitas Sancti Cyrillus. Where at he holds the Chair of Laureate Professor, and Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences. He was made a Knight Grand Officer and subsequently a Count of the Ordo Byzantinus Sancti Sepulchri by Oxford scholar, Prince Alfred Josef Baldacchino of the Rujrik Dynasty for his contribution to the promotion of new green technologies. He is also a Patron of the Leukaemia Society.
Honourable Artillery Company and City of London Police
editCharalambous is a Trooper of The Light Cavalry of the Honourable Artillery Company . He is a serving Special Constable since 1995, of the City of London Police Detachment of the Honourable Artillery Company.
Political Activities
editHe stood as the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate against famous Labour MP, the late Bernie Grant in 1992 as the youngest Candidate of that General Election of the main Parties. [4]
He is currently the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Edmonton in North London. [5] He is campaigning to bring the tube to Edmonton Green as an extension of the Jubilee Line.[6]
He is an advocate of 'Zero Tolerance' [7] as the means of shedding Edmonton's image as 'Shanktown', the stab capital of London. Furthermore, he has proposed the Meridian Valley project[8] project to bring the equivalent of a 'green' silicon valley to Ponders End and make Enfield the "Green Capital of Europe".
He set up the Age Respect Foundation [9]in 2007 as part of his various philanthropic activities and founded the Conservative Friends of Cyprus group in 1991.
He is on record for supporting Tamil Eelam, an independent Tamil state in northern Sri Lanka. [10]
Comments on Charalambous
edit"It is hard not to feel a flicker of admiration for Mr Charalambous" The Economist, July 2008 [11]
"Kate Moss and Jade Jagger’s "Green Guru" The Herald, September 2009. [12]
"Irrepressible" Evening Standard, December 2009.[13]
Media Activities
editAndrew presents The Green Hour, on London Greek Radio[14] , writes a column in The Voice, Britain's leading black community newspaper, and in Eleftheria, a British-Greek community newspaper.
He has also just started a radio show called' Talk City' on Ghanaian radio station WBLS 102.6FM.
Talk City was named by British Business Entrepreneur RMC the CEO of MP3 Music Awards after a meeting with Andrew in London on Monday 15th February 2010.
The Race To Save the Planet
editAlthough, the first Conservative running for Parliament to be a member of Friends of the Earth, a rift was reported between them in 2007.[15]
Business career
editThe Daily Telegraph newspaper poked fun at him for falling out with his bank for allegedly taking homeless people off the streets of Soho in London and putting them in his social housing portfolio.[16]
Spirituality
editThe Club4Climate website stated that "Andrew Charalambous has gone on one of the profoundest spiritual journeys of our time”.[1] Dubbed Dr Earth by the press because of his claim that “climate change is the result of our loss of relationship with the Earth and the natural world” and that we need to heal this relationship and work in harmony with planet.[17]
References
edit- ^ a b "Environment".
- ^ "Edmonton London".
- ^ "World's 'first eco nightclub' to open".
- ^ "1992 Tottenham General Election".
- ^ "Edmonton, London".
- ^ "Dr Earth fights for Edmonton to be put on (tube) map".
- ^ "Edmonton is a disgrace, why are shootings and stabbings a norm".
- ^ "Enfield Councils proposal".
- ^ "Age Respect Foundation".
- ^ "30,000 Tamils march in London over Sri Lanka's internment camps".
- ^ "It is hard not to feel a flicker of admiration for Mr Charalambous".
- ^ "Green guru to the stars".
- ^ "Even Misanthropes read the Standard".
- ^ "Andrew Charalambous london Greek Radio Show".
- ^ "Green guru to the stars falls out with Friends of the Earth".
- ^ "Charity Doesn't Begin at the Bank".
- ^ "Tantric master Dr Earth is Tories' latest weapon at election".