Jonathon Porritt is an environmentalist, writer, broadcaster and commentator who has been in the world of sustainability for a long time – he joined the Green Party in the summer of 1974. After a background in farming in New Zealand and teaching in London, Jonathon became Director of Friends of the Earth in 1984, co-chair of the Green Party from 1980-83, and in 1996 set up Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity. His new book, ‘The World We Made’, was published in 2013, and he received a CBE in January 2000 for services to environmental protection.