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Leanne Cadden is an entrepreneur, marketer and artist on Vancouver Island. In 2003, she was First Finalist for Young Entrepreneur of the Year at the Greater Victoria Chamber of Commerce business awards for the start-up of her own gallery at age 24. Now working from her home studio, www.leannarto.com, she consults on creative start-ups in the hospitality industry. |
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Ann Dale, Chair, is the Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Community Development at Royal Roads University. She is a member of the World Academy Arts and Science, a Trudeau Fellow (2004), and President of the Canadian Biodiversity Institute. Professor Dale has been active in helping to build capacity in the environmental movement for over thirty years. |
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Yuill Herbert is a founding member and Director of a not-for-profit worker’s cooperative, Sustainability Solutions Group whose work involves sustainability assessments for universities, community planning and sustainable buildings. He is also on the boards of Canadian Worker Cooperative Federation and Canadian Cooperative Association. |
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Heather Hamilton is the Executive Coordinator of the Canadian Biodiversity Institute and a founding member of Transition Ottawa, a Transition Town initiative. She is also active in other municipal affairs as the Vice-Chair of Ottawa’s Forest and Greenspace Advisory Committee. Cats, dogs and gardens keep her busy at home. |
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Nina-Marie Lister, MCIP, RPP, is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at Ryerson University and Visiting Associate Professor at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. She is the founding principal of Plandform Studio, a creative practice supporting the design of parks, post-industrial spaces and urban waterfronts worldwide. |
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Jim MacNeill, O.C., D.Sc., LL.D. Until recently Chairman of the World Bank’s Independent Inspection Panel in Washington, D.C., Dr. MacNeill is a member of the Caspian Development Advisory Panel and Chairman Emeritus of the International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg. He is an author, speaker, international negotiator, member of several boards, and recipient of many honour and distinctions, national and international. |
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Ruth Richardson is the co-founder of Small Change Fund, a new web-based vehicle for one-to-one giving to grassroots socio-environmental initiatives in Canada and abroad. She also sits on the advisory committee of Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation and the newly established Prince Edward Community Foundation. Prior to Small Change Fund, she was the Environment Program Director at the Metcalf Foundation, the Director of the Unilever Canada Foundation, and the founding Chair of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network. |
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Gulzar Samji is a consultant and educator on environment, gender and development, and has published widely in this area. She is director of the Canadian Institute of Community Development. She has participated in several United Nations conferences and advisory committees. |
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Kent Waddington is principal of Waddington Resource Management, an environmental communication firm working to green Canada’s health services landscape and engage Canadians in the greening process. He currently authors the national Environmental Stewardship initiative for a Fortune 500 #1 ranked industry leader in Canada, and is editor of the Canadian Green Health Care Journal |
