Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt is Programme Director of Forum for the Future and Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission
Jonathon Porritt is a Founder Director of Forum for the Future, and an eminent writer, broadcaster and commentator on sustainable development.
Jonathon was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chairman of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in July 2000, the government's principal source of independent advice across the whole sustainable development agenda. He is also a member of the Board of the South West Regional Development Agency; Co-Director of The Prince of Wales's Business and Environment Programme; a Non-Executive Director of Wessex Water; and a Trustee of the Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy.
He was formerly Director of Friends of the Earth (1984-90); co-chair of the Green Party (1980-83) of which he is still a member; chairman of UNED-UK (1993-96); chairman of Sustainability South West, the South West Round Table for Sustainable Development (1999-2001); a Trustee of WWF UK (1991-2005).
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His latest books are Capitalism As If The World Matters (Earthscan, revised 2007) and Globalism & Regionalism (Black Dog 2008).
Jonathon received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.
An interview with Jonathon Porritt
Hazel Dempster asks Jonathon: Is nuclear the answer? (MP3 - 9.8Mb)
Articles
Sowing the seeds of uncertainty - BBC, November 07
It could have been me - Newstatesman, July 07
Stop shopping ... or the planet will go pop - Observer, April 07
Nuclear is the soft solution to tackling climate change - Guardian, July 06
China: The most important story in the world - chinadialogue, Sept 06
Four decades on, the moral message is still the same - Guardian, Sept 06
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More information
A bibliography and general information are available on wikipedia.
Direct Pecuniary Interests
Programe Director - Forum for the Future
Board Member - South West RDA
Columnist - BBC Wildlife and NFU Countryside
Advisor - Unilever (in personal capacity)
Indirect Pecuniary Interests
Co-Director - Prince of Wales Business and Environment Programme
Non-Pecuniary Interests
Director - Forum for the Future
Trustee - WWF
Vice-President - SERA
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