Douglas Mulhall

Douglas Mulhall (born 1953) is a journalist, senior researcher at the Rotterdam School of Management, former director of the Hamburg Environmental Institute, and the author of the first European Commission report on wastewater recycling.

Career

Journalism

Mulhall has contributed to various media organisations such as The National Post, Die Zeit, and The Futurist. He was a co-founder and former chief executive of the first international joint venture television network in Ukraine, one of the first organisations to broadcast western environmental documentaries in the USSR.

Mulhall has co-produced several documentaries, such as Nuclear Path, a documentary which follows the global uranium network. The film was a recipient of the Cambridge Forum Award.

Author

Mulhall contributed to the Green Business book released by the Financial Times. Mulhall is also the author of the book Our Molecular Future: How Nanotechnology, Robotics, Genetics, and Artificial Intelligence will transform our world, released in 2002 by Promethus Books, and co-author of the book Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link to Heart Disease and Cancer.

O Instituto Ambiental

O Instituto Ambiental (The Environmental Institute) is a Brazilian non-profit organisation who focuses on water recycling, mainly with integrated biosystems such as algae. The Institute was founded in 1993 by Mulhall, anti-poverty activist Waldemar Boff, chemist Michael Braungart, entrepreneur Valmir Fachini, and biological engineer Katja Hansen. The Institute also has operations in Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Spain.

Children of Chernobyl

Mulhall is the former director and co-founder of the organisation Children of Chernobyl. The group was developed to train doctors for the purpose of treating victims of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor meltdown.

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