Paul Gilding

Professor, Cambridge University Program for Sustainability Leadership

Paul Gilding has spent 35 years trying to change the world, doing everything he can think of. He’s served in the Australian military, chased nuclear armed aircraft carriers in small inflatable boats, plugged up industrial waste discharge pipes, been global CEO of Greenpeace, taught at Cambridge University, owned and run two ground-breaking sustainability focused companies and been a close confidant and advisor to the CEOs of some the world’s largest companies. 

He lives on a farm in southern Tasmania with his wife, where they grow blueberries and raise chickens, sheep and their children.

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The Great Disruption

November 8, 2011
Growth as we’ve known it is over, say Paul Gilding and Richard Heinberg. “The idea that we can keep on growing the economy up against the...