Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Out of the Wasteland: Hope for a greener world
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Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song.
Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London and Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity, is a prominent campaigner in the fight against global warming and for conserving natural resources, and is one of the international signatories to the Upsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto 2008. Here he addresses the hard facts and statistics of waste against the poetic London backdrop of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and offers a holistic vision for a sustainable future.
Dr Richard Chartres, Bishop of London and Emeritus Gresham Professor of Divinity, is a prominent campaigner in the fight against global warming and for conserving natural resources, and is one of the international signatories to the Upsala Interfaith Climate Manifesto 2008. Here he addresses the hard facts and statistics of waste against the poetic London backdrop of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and offers a holistic vision for a sustainable future.