Nicola Baird is an environmental journalist. She has worked at Friends of the Earth since 1999. Her books include The Estate We're In: who's driving

car culture (Indigo, 1998), A green world? (Watts, 1999), How to make and use visual aids (Heinemann, 1995) and Setting up and running a school library (Heinemann, 1993). Nicola has two daughters and lives in London.