Title: Jonathon Porritt
Content: "Friends of the Earth Handbook" (1987) and encouraged Friends of the Earth to promote practical solutions in its local environmental campaigns, as well as thinking more globally and internationally. During his time as director, the membership of the organization expanded from 12,700 to 226,300. Looking back in 2012, Porritt stated that becoming director of Friends of the Earth "was probably the best decision of my life." However, his affection for the organization has not stopped him from harshly criticizing it, as he did in 2015, when the group's top ten priority issues list did not include nuclear power. Porritt attended

Title: Jonathon Porritt
Content: that many of the policies in the Ecology Party's manifesto of 1979 were now accepted by mainstream political parties, and emphasized the importance of active support. Prior to the 2015 general election, he was one of several public figures who endorsed the parliamentary candidacy of the Green Party's Caroline Lucas. In 1984 Porritt gave up teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth in Britain, a post he held until 1990. Although criticized initially as inexperienced, in the long term he has been seen as an important factor in the group's success in the late 1980s. He edited the

Title: Friends of the Earth (EWNI)
Content: Graham Searle, a former vice president of the National Union of Students. One of the first campaigns was to dump 1,500 glass bottles in front of the HQ of soft drinks giant Schweppes in Connaught House, London in protest at the company's policy of having non-returnable bottles. The group had eight local branches in 1971. By 1976 there were 140, and by 1980 it had 250 and 17,000 registered supporters. Between 1984 and 1993 its director was Jonathan Porritt a former teacher and chairman of the Ecology party. Porritt left in 1993, by which time its membership hit 226,000. The

Title: Friends of the Earth – France
Content: push for environmental candidates in political elections, such as René Dumont who ran for president in 1974 as the first ecologist candidate and who later became honorary president of the association. Afterwards, the group also attracted activists such as (ex-director of the ADEME) and Dominique Voynet (former Environment Planning Minister). In 1983, Friends of the Earth decided to focus on their associational activities. Many of the activists then left the association to participate in the creation of the Greens (Les Verts, ), such as Yves Cochet (founder of the local group in Rennes) who is the current vice-President of the

Title: Friends of Science
Content: investment banker and environmentalist warned of economic fall-out and inaccurate science of the Kyoto accord. The Friends recommended Wildavaky's 1995 publication in which he claimed that "an all-powerful environmental community" overstated risks in everyday life. In 2008 Canwest News Service confirmed that Morten Paulsen, senior vice president and general manager of Fleishman-Hillard Canada, was hired by the Friends of Science in 2006 on "a one-year contract to manage communications" and during that time was also a registered lobbyist for the Friends as well as two oil and gas industry companies. Paulsen, who had ties with the Reform and Canadian Alliance

Question: Who was director of the environmental pressure group Friends of the Earth 1984 - 90?
Answer: Jonathon Porritt