Maurice Strong

Strong takes us behind the scenes of several of the most important events in the international environmental movement over the last three decades, including the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, for which he was the principal organizer. He speaks frankly about how little success there's been in reversing the trends of environmental decline in the years since Rio. To combat the situation, Strong draws upon his years of experience as a corporate leader and political organizer and offers advice for saving Earth from ruin in the crucial decades ahead.

Starting with a grim scenario in which world hunger, global warming, environmental destruction, political turmoil and other ills are allowed to run unchecked, a worst-case illustration of his belief that "the environment is not just an issue but a symbol of the way industrial civilization has gone terribly wrong," he presses the case for nations and corporations to adopt eco-friendly policies of sustainable development, offering several concrete methods for reversing the planet's decline. He also discusses the crucial role the UN has to play in this movement-what it can do to help and, just as importantly, what it cannot.

Where On Earth Are We Going? also allows Strong to share his remarkable life story with readers. Born in rural Manitoba during the Depression, Strong landed his job with the newly formed United Nations when he was only eighteen. After a while, realizing his limited education would prevent him from advancing further, Strong went back to Canada where, over the next few decades, he became one of the nation's most powerful businessmen, rising to the top of several major Canadian power companies and eventually returning to the UN as an undersecretary-general in the early 1970's to lead the pivotal first conference in Stockholm on the environment

When Maurice Strong speaks, the world's financial and political leaders take notice. Now you, too, can hear what he has to say about our planet's toughest crises. Hardheaded, practical, and impassioned, Where On Earth Are We Going? serves as a call to action for the twenty-first century that cannot be ignored and will be much debated.

Maurice Strong, a senior advisor to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and former senior advisor to the President of the World Bank, is one of the world's most influential political and environmental activists.

Strong served on the board of directors for the United Nations Foundation, a UNaffiliated organization established by Ted Turner's historic $1 billion donation. He is also a director of the World Economic For-urn Foundation, Chairman of the Earth Council, former Chairman of the Stockholm Environment Institute, and former Chairman of the World Resources Institute.

In his native Canada, Strong has amassed a fortune in a career spanning over five decades at some of Canada's most prestigious companies. He has run several companies in the energy and resources sector, including the Power Corporation of Canada, Ontario Hydro, and Petro-Canada (the national oil company). He is currently the chairman of Technology Development, Inc., which funds research in the groundbreaking field of applying nanotechnology towards creating energy sources that are both affordable and ecofriendly.

He first worked with the United Nations as a junior officer in 1947, when he was just eighteen, and returned in 1970 to lead the Conference on the Human Environment in Geneva, after which he became the executive director of the UN's environmental program. Strong also coordinated the UN's emergency relief efforts in Africa in the mid'80s and was in charge of the historic 1992 Earth Summit in Rio. He recently took part in the reorganization of the UN's University for Peace, located in Costa Rica, and continues to help the university redefine its mission for the 21st century.

Strong's professional accomplishments in Canada have earned him numerous honors. He is a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, the Swedish Royal Order of the Polar Star, and the Royal Societies of both Canada and Great Britain. He has received 41 honorary doctorates from universities in North America and Europe.

He has been featured in every major news media outlet in the United States, Canada and Europe. Strong regularly travels across the globe, from Japan to Africa, London to Costa Rica, and all comers of the planet to further the causes of peace and the environment.

Strong lives north of Toronto, in the wilderness of Ontario.

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