Talk at Victoria University of Wellington, February 7, 2008
Kay Weir, Editor, Pacific Ecologist
Peter Bunyard was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities before becoming cofounder with Edward Goldsmith and editor of The Ecologist in 1969. From 1977 to 1992 he was consultant editor for the Industry and Environment Office, United Nations Environment Programme in Paris. Since 1989 he has conducted field work in the Colombian Amazon, and for the last 16 years has coordinated the International Honors Programme, on Rethinking Globalization: Ecology, Justice, and Society (previous name Global Ecology) at Boston University, USA. He has taken part in many seminars and workshops in France, Brazil, Switzerland, the US, Britain and Colombia. His recent publications include: Extreme Weather, Floris Books, 2006; Gaia, the Amazon and Climate, in Scientists Debate Climate MIT Press, 2004; Feeling Climate: the Shaman's Cure, in Pacific Ecologist, Summer 2007/08.