Spirit of sustainability and practice

A SPECIAL ceremony on the Lampeter campus also saw the University’s Royal Patron, HRH The Prince of Wales, confer Harmony Professors of Practice upon key individuals who have made an exceptional contribution to field of sustainability and the environment.

Professor David Cadman is an urban land economist and writer. He is interested in ways in which language and values shape our lives and has explored these themes through a study of myths, teachings of the Buddha, and other sacred texts, looking at how we can dwell more lightly on the land. He is the joint editor of HRH’s Speeches and Articles, 1968-2012, published by the University of Wales Press.

Juliet Davenport is the founder and CEO of Chippenham-based Good Energy, one of the UK’s first 100% renewable electricity supply and generator companies. A founding member of the Social Stock Exchange, Good Energy has set the energy market standard for ethically and socially responsible companies.

Peter Davies was appointed Commissioner for Wales and vice chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission in 2005. The Welsh Government appointed him as Wales’ first Sustainable Futures Commissioner in April 2011. He was appointed the first independent chair of the Climate Change Commission for Wales in 2011.

John Sauven is the executive director of Greenpeace UK. He co-ordinated the international campaign to secure a moratorium on further destruction of the Amazon by soya producers. It was one of Greenpeace’s most successful campaigns to protect large areas of the world’s last intact rainforests providing both climate and biodiversity protection.

Tony Juniper is an independent sustainability and environment adviser. He is a special advisor to the Prince of Wales International Sustainability Unit, Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and is co-founder of the sustainability consultancy group Robertsbridge.

Dr Jane Davidson concluded: “These individuals contribute to the university’s growing reputation in relation to sustainability, the wellbeing of future generations and the principle of ‘Harmony.’ Since the creation of UWTSD, we have been enabling new ways of looking at the world for a more harmonious relationship between humankind and nature and the need for greater understanding and tolerance – greater harmony – between and among us.

“This university and the Lampeter campus in particular, aims to be a beacon in testing such assumptions in the spirit of Harmony. We are already deemed a leader in sustainability for all higher and further education.

“Our scrutiny of these important principles will be enhanced beyond measure by the active contribution of these esteemed colleagues.”