Rupert's Read

This is terrible: an awful indictment of Norfolk Labour. Here's what's happened:   Green Party city councillors have expressed anger over revelations from DEFRA which show that the Leader of Norwich City Council, Brenda Arthur, told the Secretary of State, Caroline Spelman, in a telephone call on 16 th January, that the city council supported the Norfolk Waste Strategy, which is being used to justify the building of an incinerator near Kings Lynn. The telephone conversation took place just days after Councillor Arthur wrote to Mrs Spelman to state the city council's opposition to incineration in Norfolk. Councillor Claire Stephenson, Leader of the Opposition Green Party Group on Norwich City Council said: " Brenda Arthur agreed to write to the Secretary of State to explain that the city council opposes incineration after she was petitioned to do so by fifteen Green and four Liberal Democrat councillors. It was clear that the view of the city council...

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Guardians for future generations proposal: a new route to enlivening Lords reform   "Nick Clegg's plans for a historic reform of the House of Lords are set to dominate the list of Bills [in the next Queen's Speech], the Evening Standard tell us ( http://tinyurl.com/7j4u6xx ) ." At a time of frenzied media discussion of government plans to reform the House of Lords, ' Guardians for future generations ', a recent  report by the 'Green House' think tank, may offer a refreshing insight into the potential for further constitutional reform. The report, authored by me and launched recently at the House of Commons , proposes the creation of strong 'guardians' to protect the needs of future generations. In order to achieve this, the 'Guardians for future generations' report suggests creating a 'super-jury', picked by chance (as juries are) from the population at large, charged with preserving the basic needs of future...

  "Guardians of Future Generations"     Invitation RSVP: gudrun@greenbooks.co.uk   Tues 20th March 2012 Assembly House, Norwich 18:00 - 19:30   Ross Jackson (author, Occupy World Street ) & Rupert Read (author, "Guardians of the Future" ) discuss radical  ideas for protecting the interests of future generations.   The costs of decisions we make today will be borne by future generations; the issue of intergenerational justice is at the heart of the need to act on climate change. So how might the world be different if the interests and basic needs of future generations were given legal protection?   Earlier this year, Rupert Read , a philosopher at the University of East Anglia and founder of the new Green House Think Tank, launched a proposal  called Guardians of the Future at the House of Commons:  A council of "Guardians of Future Generations", chosen like a jury from the general public, would sit ...

Me arguing for a post-growth economy, on the BBC yesterday! http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/p00p6bxc

My article in the upcoming issue of 'The Occupied Times' . Please click the image to enlarge!