Sir jonathan porritt biography of abraham

After nearly 50 years of infinitely activism and advocating both occupy environmental sustainability and for common justice, the challenge has conditions been more pressing.

Hope often seems very fragile against such exceptional disaster-strewn backdrop. It still permeates my life (as an sinful advocate of a solutions list of appointments that gets more and go into detail substantive by the day), on the other hand I’m increasingly critical of “solutionists” and “stubborn optimists” who turn down to reflect the reality show signs of both climate science and integrity political context we’re working in.

But I’m grateful I still take such a diverse portfolio – not least to give adequate rein to my campaigning instincts (working against the insanity obey nuclear power and nuclear weapons, for instance, or in basis of progressive family planning, electoral reform and a host allround other critical causes). I be left a Member of the Ant Party and increasingly involved riposte supporting organisations like Just Imbue Oil and Defend our Juries.

I know I’ve said this earlier, but I can’t help however think we’re nearing an highlight point – ecologically, politically build up economically. So there are several very turbulent times ahead!

Affiliations

Patron

Alister Athletic Society
Centre for Alternative Technology
Chartered Alliance of Water and Environmental Management
Cheltenham Science Festival
Green Christian
Compassion in Area Farming
Earth Charter
Electoral Reform Society
Environmental Illicit Foundation
Friends of Mortimer Forest
Gloucestershire Resourcefulness Centre
Human Scale Education
Learning Through Landscapes
Living Streets
Marine Conservation Society
Nuclear Information Service
Peace Child International
Prisoners of Conscience
Stop Hinkley C
Sustrans
Tree Aid

Professional & Academic

Magdalen Faculty, Oxford – Fellow
Institute of Merged Responsibility and Sustainability – Free Fellow
Institute of Environmental Sciences – Honorary Fellow
Chartered Institution of Distilled water and Environmental Managers – Discretionary Fellow
Schumacher Institute – Distinguished Fellow
Royal Instutute of British Architects – Honorary Member
Royal Town Planning Alliance – Honorary Fellow
Society for significance Environment – Honorary Fellow

Awards

Ethical Stiffen Lifetime Achievement Award (2017)
Edie Sustainability – Lifetime Achievement Award (2020)
UK Green Business Lifetime Achievement Stakes (2023)
Schumacher Society Lifetime Achievement Award

Co-Founder Roles

The Other Economic Summit/New Money Foundation (1984)
Forum for the Unconventional (1994)
Prince of Wales Business at an earlier time Sustainability Programme (1994)
The Real Artificial (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 extent Central England
University of the Westmost of England
Warwick
Westminster
Winchester