with the Natural Environment in China. In 1996, Dürr was made a member of the UN Secretary General's international advisory group for the Habitat II Conference in Istanbul. Dürr was a member of the Club of Rome and served on the scientific committee of the Vienna Internationale Akademie für Zukunftsfragen, advocating sustainable, equitable, and viable development, emphasizing energy efficiency and sufficiency as a point of entry. He was a founder member of the German Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie. In 2005, together with Daniel Dahm and Rudolf zur Lippe, he published the Potsdam Manifesto and the Potsdam Denkschrift as a follow-up to the Russell–Einstein Manifesto of 1955. They were signed by a large group of scientists from all over the world, including 20 laureates of the Right Livelihood Award. From 2006 until his death, he was a founding councillor at the World Future Council, and a supporter of the Campaign for the Establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly, an organisation which campaigns for democratic reformation of the United Nations. Honors Award of Merit 1956, Oakland in USA; Right Livelihood Award 1987 („Alternative Nobelprice“), Stockholm; Waldemar-von-Knoeringen-Award 1989, Munich; Ecology Award „Goldene Schwalbe“ 1990, Darmstadt; Natura Obligat Medaille 1991, Bundeswehr University Munich; Elise and Walter Haas International Award 1993, University of California; Medal `München leuchtet' 1996 in Gold, Culture Award Munich; Honorary Doctor Dr.phil. h.c, 2002, University Oldenburg, Philosophical Faculty; Großes Verdienstkreuz des Bundesverdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 2004, Berlin. Memberships Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle, 1975; Rhodes Scholarship Foundation, Vorsitzender des deutschen Auswahlausschusses, Hamburg, 1979–1982; Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler, Berlin, Vorstand, 1980–1986, und Vorstandsvorsitzender, 1991–97, 2000-; E.F.-Schuhmacher-Gesellschaft, Kuratorium, Munich, 1980-; Studiengruppe Sanfte Energietechnologien München SESAM, University Munich 1981-1983; Naturwissenschaftler Initiative – Verantwortung für den Frieden, Mainz, 1983; Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, London/Geneva, 1983, Council 1987-97, Peace-Nobel Prize 1995; Energiekommission der Landeshauptstadt, Munich, 1983-; Wissenschaftszentrum München, Vorstand Beirat, 1983-; Scientists against Nuclear Weapons and for Peace, Sowjetische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Moskau, 1984-; August-Bebel-Kreis, Tübingen, 1986–1990; Greenpeace Deutschland, Hamburg, Vorstand, 1985–92; Stabilitätsorientierte Sicherheitspolitik, Starnberg, Codirector Forschungsprojekt 1986-1988; Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik, Wissenschaftlicher Beirat, Universität Hamburg, 1986-; Global Challenges Network, München, Gründer und Vorstand, 1987; Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin, 1987; International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, Moskau, Mitbegründer und Vorstand, 1988; Institut für sozial-ökologische Forschung, Frankfurt, Wiss. Beirat, 1989-; Internationale Akademie für Zukunftsfragen, Wien, Vorstand und Wissenschaftliches Präsidium, 1990; Economic Development of Hainan in Harmony with