Dr. John Francis

John Francis, Ph.D., is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, Dr. Francis witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. The effects of the spill compelled him to stop using motorized vehicles. Several months later, to stop the arguments about the power of one person's actions, he took a vow of silence. His non-motorized lifestyle lasted twenty-two years, and his silence seventeen. Read more...

Scott Hammell

Scott Hammell is an entrepreneur and motivational speaker who inspires his audience to "find their passion, and make it happen". After getting his start as a juggler, magician and escape artist, Scott Hammell shifted his focus towards inspiring others through public speaking. To have a proper basis for his message, Scott decided to face his fear of heights and set a Guinness World Record for the "World's Highest Suspension Straight Jacket Escape". Read more...

Challenge Your World

By providing an online community for collaboration and support, engaging competitions to motivate and inspire, and a development workspace that provides targeted tools and resources, Challenge Your World enable ideamakers and aspiring entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into sustainable businesses which contribute to society and restore balance to the environment. Read more...

Seth M. Kursman

Seth Kursman currently serves as Vice President, Public Affairs, Sustainability and Environment for AbitibiBowater Inc. The Company is in the top ten global producers of forest products and has operations throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and South Korea. Serving 20 years in various corporate and division-based functions, Seth has acquired extensive political and public policy experience. Read more...

Jon-Erik Lappano

Jon-Erik Lappano is a graduate of York University, where he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies. In 2006, he co-founded New Nature Documentaries, a production company dedicated to making films about environments and cultures in transition. He is currently working with Corporate Knights Magazine, the Canadian magazine for responsible business as Editorial Assistant. Read more...

Michelle Holliday

Michelle Holliday is President of Cambium, a consulting firm that helps clients develop the organizational competencies necessary to engage customers and employees in an integral and sustainable manner. Previously, she was Brand Manager for the Coca-Cola brand for Russia, Moldova and Kazakhstan and before that was one of two expatriates responsible for launching HJ Heinz into the former Soviet Union. Read more...

Prof. Louis Chauvin

Dr. Chauvin joined the Faculty in January 1994 to teach Ethics in Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also taught Strategies in Sustainable Development and now teaches Business and Society and a new core course, The Social Context of Business, that he designed with Prof. Nelson Phillips. Dr. Chauvin has also taught ethics courses at the University of Sherbrooke and at Concordia University. Read more...

Beverly Yee

Beverly Yee is the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) of Environmental Stewardship for Alberta's Ministry of Environment. Alberta is in the process of adopting a new cumulative effects management approach to managing the environment. Beverly is currently leading the organizational transformation process to make that change. Read more...

Prof. Paul Kalyta

In his current research and teaching activities, Prof. Kalyta places a major emphasis on the development and advancement of social and environmental accounting - an emerging field of accounting science and practice that purports to quantify, measure, analyze and communicate the socioenvironmental impact of business operations. Read more...

Huston Eubank

Huston Eubank is an architect and green development specialist who is working internationally as an independent consultant on sustainability. His long and interesting career in green development has given him a wide range of experience in many areas. His background includes serving as Executive Director of the World Green Building Council, and as Principal with the Green Development Services team at Rocky Mountain Institute. Read more...

Wendy Pollard

Wendy Pollard is Senior Research and Information Transfer Advisor at Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation. She is the regional lead for the EQuilibriumTM sustainable housing initiative at CMHC and the main client contact for the EcoTerra Home and Alstonvale Net Zero Home. She is responsible for presenting CMHC research on sustainable housing and communities to industry stakeholders and consumers throughout Quebec. Read more...

Stephane Villemain

Stephane Villemain is a senior consultant in Deloitte's Sustainability and Climate Change practice. His areas of experience include sustainability strategy development & implementation and clean technology financing. He also participated in Deloitte's sustainability judging efforts for the CICA reporting awards in Canada - sustainability report category. Read more...

Mark Anto

Mark Anto has been working with community based projects for over 10 years, focusing mainly on youth development, the environment and human rights. Mark has worked with Alternatives, CUSO, the Canadian Human Rights Foundation, as has spent several years in Asia and the Caribbean developing projects for local organizations. He is currently the project manager for the Access Energy initiative, run by Green Energy Benny Farm. Read more...

Marc Beaudin and Maggie Knight

Marc is an engineering student at the University of Calgary and has been extensively involved with Engineers Without Borders (EWB). Maggie is a third year McGill Environment & Economics student, who is active in Canada's youth climate movement, Power Shift Canada and with the Sierra Youth Coalition. Read more...

Ruby Atwood

Ruby is a foremost a visual artist, but recently she has been acting as a freelance consultant to places like Ecoquartier and the Concordia Greenhouse project. She was a green interior designer for Ecoquartier's boutiques and is currently working with the greenhouse at Concordia to rearrange the space for better workflow and designing the handbook/mini courses on greenhouse agriculture for volunteers. Read more...

Dr. John Francis

John Francis, Ph.D., is known the world over as the Planetwalker. In 1971, Dr. Francis witnessed an oil spill in San Francisco Bay. The effects of the spill compelled him to stop using motorized vehicles. Several months later, to stop the arguments about the power of one person's actions, he took a vow of silence. His non-motorized lifestyle lasted twenty-two years, and his silence seventeen. Read more...