Author Profile: Jonathon Porritt
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Still Thinking Small • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 304 • September/October 2017 • Together We Are Stronger > Reviews
Review of Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future
A Prophet In His Own Place • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 302 • May/June 2017 • Real Wealth > Reviews
Review of The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry
Greens Must Get Going • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 299 • November/December 2016 • Brave New Worlds > Undercurrents
Environmentalists must take the initiative to secure protection for the environment post Brexit
Saving the World May Not Be So Easy • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 298 • September/October 2016 • Regenerative Cities > Reviews
Review of Designing Regenerative Cultures
Sharing Our Views of the World • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 296 • May/June 2016 • Days of Hope > Resurgence50
Reflecting on a much-needed forum for intellectual exchange
Take Care, Not Control, of Our Planet • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 295 • March/April 2016 • Walking Back to Happiness > Reviews
Review of The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Stern Words and Vision • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 293 • November/December 2015 • Go With the Flow > Reviews
Review of Why Are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency, and Promise of Tackling Climate Change
The Price of Everything • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 292 • September/October 2015 • Lines of Hope > Reviews
Review of Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet and What Nature Does for Britain
Climate: It Is A Moral Issue • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 291 • July/August 2015 • Climate: It is a moral issue > Keynotes
The Pope's intervention transforms the environmental debate
The Growth Delusion • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 289 • March/April 2015 • We Need New Stories > Reviews
Review of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
A Bright Solar Future • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 287 • November/December 2014 • The Future We Want and the One We Can't Afford > Reviews
Review of The Burning Answer: A User's Guide to the Solar Revolution
A Solar Revolution • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 286 • September/October 2014 • Politics of Peace > Ecologist
The impact of solar power around the world
The World We Made • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 281 • November/December 2013 • Protecting the Countryside > Ecologist
We still have time to build a sustainable future
Greening of Our Cities • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 278 • May/June 2013 • Natural Wealth > Ecologist
Cities are leading the way in sustainability
The Elephant in the Room • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 274 • September/October 2012 • A Shared Agenda > Ecologist
Why nothing can change until we tackle our exploding population
Challenging the Greens • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 268 • September/October 2011 • What Comes Next? > Undercurrents
How much progress have we really made, and what should we be doing next?
Opinion - Going Back to Our Roots • Jonathon Porritt & Tony Juniper
Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Regulars > Opinion
A response to the Small is Beautiful call from Julian Rose
The Three 'Rs' • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 257 • November/December 2009 • Resilience & Climate Change > Keynotes
Three fundamental principles should underpin any approach to food security: resilience, resolarisation and relocalisation.
Living Within Our Means • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 255 • July/August 2009 • Sacred Planet > Keynotes
The solution to the ultimate recession lies in sustainable capitalism.
Corporate Evolution • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Reviews
Review of The Necessary Revolution.
Food Security • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 251 • November/December 2008 • Feasting & Fasting: Connecting the Plate and the Planet > Feasting & Fasting
Eat locally and seasonally.
21st Century Writing • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Reviews
Review of Spirituality as a Public Good
New Role for the WTO • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 244 • September/October 2007 • The Green Imperative > Green Imperatives
If the World Trade Organization were to put the environment above free trade we could begin to make the significant changes needed to live sustainably on the Earth.
EDGING CLOSER TO MELTDOWN • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 238 • September/October 2006 • Celebrating 40 Years of Resurgence > The Movement
There is still a window of opportunity to ward off ecological collapse.
FUTURE SCENARIOS • Jonathon Porritt & Sir John Whitmore
Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Undercurrents
Should we reform or replace capitalism?
Visionaries - PATRICK GEDDES • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Regulars > Visionaries
The life of a pioneer of sustainable development.
EARTH, WEALTH AND WELLBEING • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 234 • January/February 2006 • Earth, Wealth and Wellbeing > Feature Articles
Are capitalism and sustainability mutually exclusive? An edited extract from Capitalism as if the World Matters.
SEDUCED BY SPEED • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 222 • January/February 2004 • Natural Governance > Feature Articles
Fast-lane living ranks high in the list of pseudo-satisfiers.
AFFLUENCE THRESHOLD • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 220 • September/October 2003 • Science and Spirituality > Feature Articles
It is time to examine the relationship between economic growth and social wellbeing
SUSTAINABILITY AND SECURITY • Jonathon Porritt & Martin Wright
Issue 218 • May/June 2003 • Futility of War > Prospects for Peace
Addressing the roots of conflict.
BETTER BUSINESS? • James Wilsdon & Jonathon Porritt
Issue 208 • September/October 2001 • Technology: dream or nightmare? > Technology
Can technology help to clean up business practice?
A DISCREET VEIL • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 201 • July/August 2000 • Only Connect - Soil, Soul, Society > Feature Articles
New Labour modernizers are ignoring the urgency of the required environmental transformation.
ARROGANT TECHNOLOGY • Jonathon Porritt
Issue 195 • July/August 1999 • Earth Charter > Reviews
Review of The Biotech Century