What Is Sustainability?
It's an easy word to use, some say. But is it possible for seven billion people to live with nature sustainably? Monty Don explores how the natural world and human population meet.
Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at the crunch point between human population and the natural world. In this week's programme we have a report from Gloucestershire on the waxing and waning of Eel populations. Jonathan Porritt, one of the founders of the sustainability charity Forum for the Future will be in the Shared Planet studio to explore the issues and the wider implication of sustainability.
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Jonathon Porritt
Jonathon Porritt CBE is a British environmentalist and author who first got involved with environmental issues in 1974; the same time as becoming a teacher in a West London comprehensive. Ten years later, Jonathon left teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth where he stayed until 1991, just prior to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 β which he found a life-changing experience.
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Jonathon is Co-Director of the Prince of Walesβs Business & Sustainability Programme, and was Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission for nine years until 2009.Μύ In 1996 he set up , an organisation which works with business, government and others to inspire a sustainable future.
Pavan Sukhdev
Pavan Sukhdev is Founder-CEO of , a specialist consulting firm which helps
governments and corporations discover, measure, value, and manage their impacts on natural and human capital.Μύ He is a Visiting Fellow at Yale University, where he was awarded the 2011 McCluskey Fellowship and wrote his book βCorporation 2020β.
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He is a Goodwill Ambassador for UNEP.Μύ Earlier he was Special Adviser and Head of UNEPβs Green Economy Initiative, and lead author of their report βTowards a Green Economyβ.Μύ He was also Study Leader for the G8+5 commissioned project on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (βTEEBβ). Pavan is also one of the recipients of the 2013 Gothenburg Award for Sustainable Development, where he has been recognised for his work in the area of βNatureβs services and ingenious solutionsβ.
The Shared Planet Studio
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- Tue 30 Jul 2013 11:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Mon 5 Aug 2013 21:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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