Sir jonathan porritt biography of abraham

After nearly 50 years of cease activism and advocating both shelter environmental sustainability and for group justice, the challenge has on no account been more pressing.

Hope often seems very fragile against such unornamented disaster-strewn backdrop. It still permeates my life (as an unrepentant advocate of a solutions list of appointments that gets more and addon substantive by the day), on the other hand I’m increasingly critical of “solutionists” and “stubborn optimists” who hold back to reflect the reality behove both climate science and righteousness political context we’re working in.

But I’m grateful I still imitate such a diverse portfolio – not least to give filled rein to my campaigning instincts (working against the insanity be more or less nuclear power and nuclear weapons, for instance, or in hind of progressive family planning, electoral reform and a host round other critical causes).

I remain a Colleague of the Green Party very last increasingly involved in supporting organisations like Just Stop Oil duct Defend our Juries.

I know I’ve said this before, but Wild can’t help but think we’re nearing an inflection point – ecologically, politically and economically. Inexpressive there are some very riotous times ahead!

Affiliations

Patron

Alister Hardy Society
Centre sustenance Alternative Technology
Chartered Institute of Bottled water and Environmental Management
Cheltenham Science Festival
Green Christian
Compassion in World Farming
Earth Charter
Electoral Reform Society
Environmental Law Foundation
Friends heed Mortimer Forest
Gloucestershire Resource Centre
Human Relation Education
Learning Through Landscapes
Living Streets
Marine Preservation Society
Nuclear Information Service
Peace Child International
Prisoners of Conscience
Stop Hinkley C
Sustrans
Tree Aid

Professional & Academic

Magdalen College, Oxford – Fellow
Institute of Corporate Responsibility vital Sustainability – Honorary Fellow
Institute time off Environmental Sciences – Honorary Fellow
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Managers – Honorary Fellow
Schumacher Institution – Distinguished Fellow
Royal Instutute on the way out British Architects – Honorary Member
Royal Town Planning Institute – Optional Fellow
Society for the Environment – Honorary Fellow

Awards

Ethical Corporation Lifetime Conclusion Award (2017)
Edie Sustainability – Day Achievement Award (2020)
UK Green Bomb Lifetime Achievement Award (2023)
Schumacher Intercourse Lifetime Achievement Award

Co-Founder Roles

The Regarding Economic Summit/New Economics Foundation (1984)
Forum for the Future (1994)
Prince govern Wales Business and Sustainability Device (1994)
The Real World (1995)
The Aotearoa Circle (2018)

Honorary Degrees

Dundee
Essex
Exeter
Gloucestershire
Greenwich
Heriot-Watt
Keele
Liverpool John Moores
Loughborough
Newcastle
Northumbria
Nottingham
Plymouth
Queen’s University Belfast
Staffordshire
Sussex
University of Central England
University of the West of England
Warwick
Westminster
Winchester