Jonathon Porritt and Peter Madden take up new advisory positions

Fiona King, 3rd December 2008, Forum founders, General
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Both Jonathon Porritt and Peter Madden will be bringing in 2009 with new advisory positions on external boards.

Jonathon Porritt joins construction company Willmott Dixon, a long-standing partner of Forum for the Future, as non-executive director in January. He will provide strategic advice on sustainability issues, working with Head of Sustainability George Martin.

The company has set itself a stringent sustainability target for 2012, by which point it aims to send zero construction waste to landfill and achieve carbon neutrality.

Peter Madden will take up a three-year appointment from mid-December as a strategic advisor for the South West Regional Development Agency.

Representing the business sector, and operating in an area where the Forum has long since had a presence, Peter will advise on supporting regional economies during this time of economic turbulence.

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Builders and Litter

I am really impressed that a building and construction company has had the foresight to employ Jonathon Porritt for advice about waste in this sector. May I suggest as a start that builders could be educated about the problem of litter? I am a volunteer with Children 1st, a charity working with disadvantaged children, and we recently did a make-over of our surrounding ground with the help of local children and families to make a lovely garden. But the corporation have been updating neighbouring properties, and as a result our garden is a tip! There's plastic waste blowing everywhere and the men seem to think it's OK to throw their coke bottles and plastic bags across our wall. Since I've noticed that wherever there's builders there seems to be a trail of litter too. Perhaps it is because quite a lot of items are wrapped in thick plastic sheeting which the men just tear off and let fly to the wind, not realizing that this will likely eventually end up in our oceans. I believe it's really just a matter of care and education.