Welcome
to my website! I’ve been blogging for a long time, but that’s only a small part of all the different things I'm involved in these days.
It’s a funny old mix. Part advising, part campaigning, part writing and broadcasting, part lecturing and giving talks. And all done with a funny old mix of companies, NGOs, Universities and public sector bodies. It’s mostly through Forum for the Future, but through all sorts of other organizations too - as you’ll see.
My involvement with government used to be much greater than it is today. Up until July 2009, I was Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission, a post to which I was appointed by Tony Blair back in 2000. The Commission itself is no more – the Coalition Government idiotically decided to get rid of it which demonstrated, early on, just how utterly vacuous its commitment to being ‘the greenest government ever’ looks like in practice.
Happily, giving up any government role has enabled me to get stuck in on a number of campaigns which you’ll see under the relevant section.
I'm particularly involved at the moment in nuclear and forestry issues - please have a look at the Campaigns section.
Jonathon
LATEST
13.3.13 Nuclear Nightmares: Government Still in Denial ...... see our letter to the Prime Minister
Our Forests latest
There’s been a huge amount of activity regarding the future of the Public Forest Estate – in the run-up to the publication of the Final Report from the Independent Panel on Forestry.
There’s no doubt that the Government is now much more aware of public concern about this, as reinforced in the survey that Our Forests did of 38 Degrees members.
And in the meantime Our Forests has been keeping up the pressure on the NGOs themselves to make sure that they are absolutely uncompromising in their support for the continuation of the Public Forest Estate and for public funding.
Finally, we’ve also produced some posters for people to have a look at and use at any meetings they’re at.
Please see the Our Forests page for all the documents mentioned above.
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Nuclear Power - 10 KILLER FACTS
2.5.12 Briefing 6: Nuclear Power: A Toxic Political Issue for the Coalition Government
20.4.12 Briefing 4: The Wider Economic Implications of Nuclear Power
17.4.12 Briefing 3: The New Nuclear Industry
4.4.12 Briefing 2: Investing in Nuclear Power - Current Concerns
26.3.12 Why Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK - A series of Briefings from Tom Burke, Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett: Briefing 1: Subsidising the Nuclear Industry
13.3.12 New campaign on the economics of nuclear power one year from Fukushima - see Press Release, cover letter and the Note to the Prime Minister.
The Guardian online (13 March ) How the UK is handing control of its energy future to France
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/mar/13/uk-energy-future-france
16.3.12 Our response to George Monbiot:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2012/mar/16/nuclear-power-fail-george-monbiot
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EVENTS:
Due to the great success of Big Green Week 2012, Forum for the Future and Bristol Green Capital will be running it again next year from 15th -23rd June 2013. Keep an eye on the website for further details www.biggreenweek.com