|
Journal
- Latest
entries
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
Archive
Journal entries prior to May 2008 can be found in the old archived site here
|
|
More of a Godfather ...
... than a father of the sustainability movement
19 October 2008
One of the spooky aspects of Googling your own name, as I did this morning in search of a column that appeared in yesterday's issue of Le Monde, is that you come across references you didn't know existed. Today it was a Wikibook chapter on 'The Ones Who Made History'.
There I found myself in pole position in a listing of sustainability pioneers, identified as 'The Father', with the others being Stephan Schmidheiny (The Visionary), Bill Drayton (The Prophet), Anita Roddick (The Provocateur), Ray Anderson (The Revolutionary), Oded Grajew (The Benchmark), Yves Chouinard (The Explorer) and Antonio Luiz Da Cunha Seabra (The Philosopher).
While it's nice to appear in such lists, if someone asked me who I see as the Father of the sustainabilty movement, I would come up with a list of other, stronger candidates for the tag. They would include Maurice Strong and Max Nicholson. Success has many fathers, they say, but these two were among those who influenced my choice of priorities and trajectories. And don't get me started on mothers.
Comments
|
|
Could have been worse .. you might have been the "GRANDfather" or the "illegitimate son" :)