Environment: New man at the Greenpeace helm aims to balance policy and piracy; In his first interview, the former Foreign Office diplomat insists direct action remains the way forward.(News) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: April 11, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

CAN YOU successfully run Greenpeace, the most swashbuckling of all the environmental pressure groups, if you're a policy wonk by nature rather than a pirate? The British branch of the organisation is about to find out.

At its head from this week is Stephen Tindale, one of the most influential figures in British environmental policy-making of the past decade, and a key behind-the-scenes architect of New Labour's green strategies.

In government, he was special adviser to the Environment minister Michael Meacher; before that, in opposition, he did the same job for Chris ...