biography
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Porritt, Jonathon (Espie)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1950– )
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| biography:
| 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). |
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