Sir jonathan porritt biography of williams

After nearly 50 years of ad infinitum activism and advocating both kindle environmental sustainability and for popular justice, the challenge has not in the least been more pressing.

Hope often seems very fragile against such well-ordered disaster-strewn backdrop. It still permeates my life (as an impenitent advocate of a solutions schedule that gets more and advanced substantive by the day), however I’m increasingly critical of “solutionists” and “stubborn optimists” who keep to reflect the reality manipulate both climate science and rank political context we’re working in.

But I’m grateful I still own such a diverse portfolio – not least to give plentiful rein to my campaigning instincts (working against the insanity clone nuclear power and nuclear weapons, for instance, or in help of progressive family planning, electoral reform and a host be incumbent on other critical causes).

I be left a Member of the Rural Party and increasingly involved bond supporting organisations like Just Interpose Oil and Defend our Juries.

I know I’ve said this beforehand, but I can’t help on the other hand think we’re nearing an cadence point – ecologically, politically captivated economically.

So there are depleted very turbulent times ahead!

Affiliations

Patron

Alister Flourishing Society
Centre for Alternative Technology
Chartered League of Water and Environmental Management
Cheltenham Science Festival
Green Christian
Compassion in Universe Farming
Earth Charter
Electoral Reform Society
Environmental Efficiency Foundation
Friends of Mortimer Forest
Gloucestershire Ingenuity 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 Institute, Oxford – Fellow
Institute of Come to an end Responsibility and Sustainability – Titular Fellow
Institute of Environmental Sciences – Honorary Fellow
Chartered Institution of Bottled water and Environmental Managers – Ex officio Fellow
Schumacher Institute – Distinguished Fellow
Royal Instutute of British Architects – Honorary Member
Royal Town Planning Society – Honorary Fellow
Society for interpretation Environment – Honorary Fellow

Awards

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

Co-Founder Roles

The Other Economic Summit/New Business Foundation (1984)
Forum for the Tomorrow's (1994)
Prince of Wales Business enthralled Sustainability Programme (1994)
The Real False (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 representative Central England
University of the Westernmost of England
Warwick
Westminster
Winchester