Jim Berreen
Jim Berreen was a prominent member of the Green Party in the 1980s and 90s and an academic. He remains a member of the party. He became a special needs teacher in the mid 1990s and retired from full-time teaching in 2010. Berreen is a musician playing saxes, flute and percussion and runs a Latin Jazz band called Loco Mundo.[1]
Early life
Berreen went to University at Exeter. He was Hall President at Mardon[2]
Career
Following voluntary service in the Pacific Berreen did post-graduate entomology at the University of Glasgow before joing the University of Malawi as a junior research fellow working on red locust biology. Berreen was a lecturer in Animal Ecology at the University of Birmingham. A number of Green Party activists cite him as an inspiration for their later involvement with the party.[3]
Berreen was Environment Speaker for the Green Party at the height of its success in 1989 and in the early 90s.[4]
He was a co-founder and scientific advisor within the Global Commons Institute which pioneered the model of Contraction and Convergence for the IPCC.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Locomundo website
- ↑ http://www.university.ex.ac.uk/halls/mardon/pages/history/reps/pres.html Mardon Hall Presidents
- ↑ Cllr Mike Keogh Biography
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 {http://www.gci.org.uk/signon/OrigStatement2.pdf Global Commons Institute founding statement}
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