Date: Tuesday 12 November 2013
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Room 2.02, Clement House, CLM 2.02
Speaker: Pooran Desai
Chair: Phillip Rode

This is a rare opportunity to hear directly from Pooran Desai OBE, co-founder of BioRegional and International Director, One Planet Communities. He will share the story behind BioRegional, which establishes sustainable businesses around the world to demonstrate that a sustainable future can be easy, attractive and affordable.

Pooran Desai MA (Oxon) OBE HonFRIBA is a co-founder of BioRegional and international director of the One Planet Communities programme. Pooran studied at Oxford and Cambridge Universities before co-founding BioRegional, an international environmental network operating in Europe, North America, Central America, Africa and China. He has worked in sustainable farming, forestry, recycling & real estate development, drawing together the partnership to construct Beddington Zero (fossil) Energy Development (BedZED), the UK’s foremost eco-village development where he lives and works. Pooran coined the term ‘One Planet Living’ and heads up BioRegional’s One Planet Communities programme working with developers around the world leading teams which have written sustainability plans for a total of $30 billion of development under construction or planned. One Planet Communities include the ground-breaking One Brighton development where he was developer. Pooran has worked on projects in Africa include the 6000 home Sibaya development in Durban, South Africa, and the renowned eco-tourism development at Singita Grumeti Reserves in Tanzania. In 2004, Pooran was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen for services to sustainable development and in 2007 was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2009 he was named in the top 5 most influential people of the decade in the construction industry by Building Magazine. In March 2013, The Cleantech Group named him a Cleantech pioneer. He has authored or co-authored 3 books, his last being One Planet Communities – a real life guide to sustainable living which was published by John Wiley in November 2009.

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