Jonathon (Espie) Porritt - Bibliography

Green politician and environmentalist, born in London. He studied at Oxford, became a comprehensive schoolteacher, and entered politics to become chair of the fledgling UK Ecology (now Green) Party (1978–84). Following the rapid expansion of the party after the 1979 and 1983 general elections, he wrote an important green text, Seeing Green (1984), becoming director of Friends of the Earth (UK) (1984–90). In 1996, he co-founded Forum for the Future, an environmental charity, and acts as an adviser on environmental issues to many bodies. He was chair of the UN Environment and Development Committee (UK) (1993–6), is a member of the government's Agricultural Advisory Group (1997– ) and director of the government's Sustainable Development Commission (2000).

Jonathon Espie Porritt, CBE (born 6 July 1950) is a British environmentalist and writer.

He was born in London, and educated at Eton College and Magdalen College, Oxford. Porritt appears frequently in the media, writing in magazines, newspapers and books, and appearing on radio and television regularly. Despite being a chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, set up by the UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, he has criticised the Labour government on its environmental record.

He was chairman of the UK Ecology Party (now the Green Party) from 1978 to 1984. With Sara Parkin and Paul Ekins in 1996 he founded Forum for the Future, a sustainable development charity. His engagement with business over sustainability and prioritisation of environment over social change characterises the distance between himself and the Green Party from the 1990s onwards.

Porritt is on the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine and the chairman on the UK Sustainable Development Commission.

He is the son of Lord Porritt, eleventh Governor-General of New Zealand.

Bibliography

Porritt, Jonathon (1984). Porritt, Jonathon (1994). Porritt, Jonathon (1995). Porritt, Jonathon (2000). Porritt, Jonathon (2004). Porritt, Jonathon (2006).