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Cochrane, Kerry Ann

Animation Indigo

2-334 Besserer Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6B5 Canada

Work Phone: 613-241 0126
Fax: 613-241 2292
Vocation Activist; Academic; Youth

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information
Interest Areas: global education.
Education: B.Ed. Facule Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, University of Ottawa.
Employment/Experience: Certified Teacher; set up interactive development education workshops for children and youth in school and community groups in Ottawa region. 1993: UN Volunteer/ Canada World Youth: Community animation in Benin. 1990-1991: Canada World Youth: Quebec/Rwanda/Mali.
Languages; other skills: English; bilingual; facilitation; research; animation.

Your publications related to SD
Cochrane, K.(1994) "Global Education,": Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Cohen, Michelle

York University Centre For Refugee Studies

118 Crawford St.
Toronto, Ontario, M6J 2V4 Canada

Home Phone: 416-736-5663
Work Phone: 416-532-2094
Fax: 416-736 5837
Vocation Academic

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Interest Areas: women and community development; womenand labour issues; women in social housing.
Education: Honors Bachelor of Arts , Sociology from York University, Toronto Women & Development Certificate, York University,
Language; other skills: English.

Your publications related to SD
Cohen, M. (1994)." Towards Gender Equality in Provincially Funded Housing." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perpectives Conference. U.B.C, Vancouver, May, 1994.

Collins, Betty

Position Director

Saskatchewan Water Corporation Watershed Strategies Branch

111 Fairford Street East
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, S6H 7S1 Canada

Work Phone: 306-694 3952
Fax: 306-694-3944
Vocation Bureaucrat; Consultant

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information
Master of Environmental Design, University of Calgary B.A., University of Saskatchewan B.Ed., University of Saskatchewan
Employment: Manage a resource management unit (5 years) Environmental assessment project officer (5 years) Resource Management Consultant (5 years) Classroom Teacher (10 years)
Memberships: Nature Saskatchewan Nature Canada Secretariat to National Task Force on Environment and the Economy
Languages; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Collins, M. (1994) "Women in Politics" Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: Becoming a member to the National Task Force on the Environment and the Economy; exposure to ecology classes/field trips/ people in Natural history organizations.

Concerns and encouragement
I am encouraged by the relatively quick response in governments across Canada to examine a means to apply the principles of the National Task Force on the Enviornment and Economy report-just 6 years. Most resource management agencies appear to be considering discussion, application and implementation of Sustainable Development concepts/practices, ie governments and business.

Changes needed
We need clear goals and clear, realistic action plans through involvement of public, government and industry.

Conn, Melanie

Women Futures Community Economic Development Society

217 - 1956 W. Broadway
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6J 1Z2 Canada

Work Phone: 604-737 1338
Vocation Activist

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Language; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Conn, M (1994) "Women Futures: Women and Community Economic Development." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Coombe, Jane

Ministry for Women's Equality

756 Fort Street
Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4 Canada

Work Phone: 604-953-3318
Fax: 604-953-4529
Email jcoombe@al@galaxy

Vocation Bureaucrat; Artist

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Peace and security

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Language; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Coombe, J. (1994) "Stopping Violence Against Women." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994. Coombe, J. (1994) "Making Collective Murals: New Landscapes to Promote Non-Violence." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.

Cooper, Ardyth

C.A.C.S.W.

403 - 900 W. Hastings
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Work Phone: 604-666-0664
Fax: 604-666-0667
Vocation First Nations

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information

Languages; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Cooper, A. (1994) " First Nations' Women's Caucus on Self-Governance." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.

Cormie, Eivor

194 - 1857 West 4th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6J 1M4

Home Phone: 604-253-5760

Corrado, Amanda

570 Poirier Street
Coquitlam, British Columbia, V3J 6A8

Work Phone: 604-936-7205
Fax: 604-937-5933

Cote, Denyse

Universite du Quebec a Hull Departement des sciences humaines

C.P. 1250, Succ. B,
Hull, Quebec, J8X 3X7 Canada

Work Phone: 819-595 2268
Fax: 819-595 2384
Vocation Academic

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Interest Areas: Maternites/familles organization communautaire; Martrise science politique
Education: Doctorat en Sociologie
Languages; other skills: French.

Your publications related to SD
Cote, D. (1994) "Is Community Development Gender Sensitive? A Reflection on the Evolution of Paradigms and Processes." Workshop in the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives. Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Coumantarakis, Sara

Alberta Global Education Project

11010-142 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, T5N 2R1 Canada

Home Phone: 403-462-5041
Work Phone: 403-453-2411
Fax: 403-455-6481
SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information
Interest Areas: Global Education
Employment/Experience: Present: Assistant director, Alberta Global Education Project.
Language; other skills: English

Courchene, Melanie

Position Senior Policy Advisor

B.C. Government Cabinet Planning Secretariat

2nd floor, 468 Belleville St.
Victoria, British Columbia, V8V 1X4 Canada

Home Phone: 604-953-4080
Work Phone: 604-592-3185
Fax: 604-953-4000
Vocation Bureaucrat

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information
Interest Areas: Women and the labour market, labour economics and anthropology.
Language; other skills: English

Creech, Heather

Position Program Director, Communications and Partnerships

International Institute for Sustainable Development

161 Portage Avenue East, 6th flr.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B OY4 Canada

Work Phone: 958-7735
Fax: 958-7710
Email: hcreech@iisdpost.iisd.ca
Vocation Other

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information

Education: Honours B.A. (Queens); Master of Library Services, Dalhousie University.
Employment/Experience: Heather joined IISD in 1992 as its Information Scientist. She was appointed Director of the Communications and Parternships program in May 1994. She has a solid background in legal and scientific information management, acquired in her experience in Canada and overseas. She worked in the Pacific Islands for over six years, first as Law Librarian for the University of Papua New Guinea, and later as Librarian for the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission based in Fiji. In both positions, she was active in establishing regional networks and information bases.
Languages; other skills: English; various computer skills

Your publications related to SD
[with the staff of IISD], Sourcebase on Sustainable Development: key sources of information. Winnipeg: IISD, 1992 - to date. Access: http://iisd1.iisd.ca/ or e-mail ayoshida@iisdpost.iisd.ca. Creech, H. (1990) A Guide to Legal Research in Papua New Guinea. Sydney: Law Book Co.. Creech, H. "Strengthening Information Services" (Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga). SOPAC Technical Reports, 113, 128, 137. Suva: SOPAC, 1990; 1991; 1992. Valantin, R and Creech, H. "Information for Decision-Making," Canada and Agenda 21; Projet de société. Winnipeg: IISD, 1994. McDowell, R and Creech, H. "Information Control and the Aquatic Environment of the South Pacific," Proceedings, 1991 Conference of the International Association of Marine and Aquatic Science Libraries. Creech, H. "In Search of an Ocean Information Policy." Ocean Yearbook 6(1986) 15-28.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
I have been influenced by certain people. On a personal level: My mother has been a committed recycler and composter, an environmentally aware and responsible person most of her life. She has always been aware of social issues and environmental issues and taken them as personal challenges. I have tried to do likewise. Other people have inspired my more professional interests. The people at the Dalhousie Ocean Studies Program were struggling with multi-diimensional problems of international relations, negotiations, legal and policy concerns. This, together with my time overseas, gave me a sense of what's happening around the world. I've been inspired by the media -- in particular, Barbara Frum's "As It Happens"; and some early radio work of David Suzuki on "Quirks and Quarks"; this gave me a sense of the science that underlies everything. Reading? The journal of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, late 60's to late 70's gave me a sense of place which I valued. And of course, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. When I was working overseas, I was influenced by the Lonely Planet Guides which are more than travel guides, they assume you're going to spend time to learn and to experience rather than to ogle and they convey an understanding of how important it is to live simply within another culture. I have also been inspired by scuba diving which opened up a new world for me; I could see the interconnectedness of things on a coral reef that I couldn't see so immediately on land.

Concerns and encouragement
I'm concerned about consumption patterns. I don't see how the North will change unless each of us begins to learn to do with less. It disturbs me to see the amount that many of us spend on clothes, toys, gadgets, consumer products. The economy at present seems to live by producing consumer goods, and I don't know how that can be changed. I'm concerned about the generation just behind me - they don't have jobs or know what to do with themselves. The positive side of that is that they are learning to do with less. I'm concerned about issues of security - personal security because of the violence around us and environmental security, our need for clean air and water -- and not knowing whether those will last. I'm encouraged by young people. And also by my sense that people in key positions are starting to take environmental security issues more seriously. I'm not sure whether they are perhaps "greenwashing" some issues, but I'm pleased with the effort of some decision-makers to put this on the agenda. They would not be doing so unless they were responding to a movement within the population that demands these things. I'm encouraged by what's happening in some smaller developing countries in coming to grips with the demands of Western lifestyles as well as the desire to protect what's important to them. There are efforts in the Pacific Islands to bring countries to the table to work out issues in common. And, the growth of such regional approaches offers lessons to more developed countries. Also, initiatives like the Projet de société -- whether or not it survives, it is a valid effort to bring representatives of all different interest groups and sectors together to tackle the problems facing us. I'm encouraged by the experience (provided by the Projet de société) of talking with people from business, government, NGO's -- it gives me a broadened understanding of issues and sensitivity to concerns. If I can change as a result of this process, then others can too. This makes me concerned that we'll despair too quickly.

Changes needed
There need to be changes at the personal level as well as at the global level. At the personal level, there are changes I need to make in my life -- I need to stop driving my car to work, I need to develop a sustainable lifestyle that reflects and integrates what I do "for a living" into what I eat, how I play, how I relax. The mentality that farmers and fishers have, where everything you do in your life revolves around the environment, is beginning to be adopted by those of us living in urban environments. Globally, I get the sense from the Earth Negotiations Bulletin that leaders still bring largely vested interests to the table. This has to change. Leaders have to go to international meetings with the international community at heart rather than (or at least in addition to) their own particular nation. For example, in Cairo, many participants didn't bring with them the sense that we all have to do something about a looming, complex problem.

Miscellaneous comments
I haven't mentioned a particular women's perspective. I continue to struggle with feminist theory and the feminist polemic. It angers me that my opinion is seen to be less valid because I am not a women of colour or of a disadvantaged background.

Creed, Irena

United Nations Association- Canada

51 Westminster Avenue
Toronto, Ontario, M6R 1N3 Canada

Home Phone: 416-532 6447
Work Phone: 416-978 5070
Fax: 416-978 6725
Email creed@esker.geog.utoronto.ca

Vocation Academic

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment, resources

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy

Biographical information
Interest Areas: Sustainable development; ecofeminism; international environment and development issues.
Education: Doctoral Candidate, interdisciplinary studies in environment, University of Toronto. MSc Botany and environmental studies. B.Sc. Zoology
Employment/Experience: Co-Chair, Women's caucus, UNA Canada Member, Ontario Beijing Planning Committee.
Languages; other skills: English.

Your publications related to SD
Creed, I (1994) "UN Beijing Conference and Forum- Demystifying the Participatory Process," Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Cressman, Dawne

2814 East 7th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5M 1T9

Home Phone: 604-254-1293

Crnkovich, Mary

38 Renfrew Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 1Z5 Canada

Work Phone: 613-235 6476
Fax: 613-231 7681
Vocation Activist

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information

Languages; other skills

Your publications related to SD
Crnkovich, M. "Inuit Women and Sustainable Development in the Context of Comprehensive Land Claims."

Dr. Fiona Crofton

Position Principal

ORCAD Consulting Group Inc.

101 - 330 West 2nd Street
North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7M 1E1 Canada

Phone: 604-985-8381
Fax: 604-985-7385
Email orcad@4sustainability.com

Vocation Business

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment, resources

Biographical information
S.D. Interests: SD issues linked to organizational change/ transformation, community-making/building, leadership and spirituality. Community development, planning (not just municipal/regional)
Education: B.G.S; M.A. (Ed-Psyc); PhD (A.B.D.)- engineering and SD
Employment: 1986- present: organizational research, change and development consultant 1980-1987: private practice (psychotherapist) 1973-1980: systems analyst

Your publications related to SD
Crofton, F.S. (1993) "Summary Report: Sustainable Communities: Developing Strategies." (Available from Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of B.C., Municipal Engineers Division.) Crofton, F.S., Trunkey, L., Gardner, J. & Griggs, J. (1992) "Sustainable Communities: Summary Report." (Available from Association of Professional Engineers & Geoscientists of B.C. Municiple Engineers Division.) Crofton, F.S, (1992) "Engineers and Sustainable Development." National Round Table Review, Spring, 20-21. Crofton, F.S. (1991) "Sustainable Development and Engineers/Geoscientists: Where do APEGBC members stand?" Part II. The B.C. Professional Engineer, November, 30-31. Crofton, F.S. (1991) "Sustainable Development and Engineers/Geoscientists: Where do APEGBC members stand?" Part I. The B.C. Professional Engineer, October, 24. Crofton, F.S. (1991) "Sustainable Development Questionaire." The B.C. Professional Engineer, June, 20. Crofton, F.S. (1991) "Health, Sustainability and the Year 2000: Old Rhetoric or New Mainstream?" IN: R. Case & S. Cusack (Eds,), A critical Analysis of British Columbia's Proposals for Educational Reform (Educational Perspectives No. 1) (pp. 26-52). Burnaby, B.C.: Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
I have been "inspired" to become committed to SD because of my love of nature and my respect and wonder for this planet; further, I have many reasons to be concerned about the well-being of the Earth. Most particularly inspiring are the cycles of life especially as revealed in gardens, oceans, forests, people. Books by Thomas Berry (e.g., The Dream of the Earth) and by Brian Swimme (e.g., The Universe is a Green Dragon) & the Earth-Spirit Conference have been particularly inspiring.

Concerns and encouragement

Concerns, lack of respect (for women, children, animals, Earth); lack of knowledge/skill (re: women, Earth, organizations, alternative decision-making processes; leadership).

Changes needed
List of societal attributes which need to be addressed in order to reach sustainability: -re-assert and re-vision the 'sacred' and/or the 'cherished' among our values set. -place the environment (natural, home, organizational) at the center. -learn how to cooperate and collaborate with one another in establishing meaning, directions and actions. -re-vision "leadership" and "democracy". -increase and declare the presence of women in all decision making processes (with special attention to young women and women from indigenous cultures).

Crompton, Linda

Position Vice President

Citizen's Trust Operations

401 815 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6C 1B4 Canada

Work Phone: 604-682-7171
Fax: 604-682-3571
Vocation Business

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information

Languages; other skills; English

Your publications related to SD
Crompton, L. (1994) "Sustainable Development and Enterprise: Confronting the Contradictions - a Feminist Perspective." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Culhane, Claire

Prisoners' Rights Group

303-2075 East 12th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5N 2A9 Canada

Work Phone: 604-873 3070
Fax: 604-876 4308
Vocation Activist, Bureaucrat

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information

Education: First Year Arts.
Employment: Legal secretary Medical Record Librarian Author, Lecturer Social Activist
Memberships: Prisoners' Rights Group Humanist Association
Language; other skills: English; French

Your publications related to SD
Culhane, C. (1991) "No longer Barred from Prison: Social Injustice in Canada." Blackrose Books. Montreal. 196 pp. Culhane, C. (1989) "Still Barred from Prison: Social injustice in Canada." Blackrose Books. Montreal. 229 pp. Culhane, C. (1985) "Barred from Prison: Personal Account." Pulp Press. Vancouver. 234 pp. Culhane, C. (1972) " Why is Canada in Vietnam?" New Canada Press. Toronto, 125 pp.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
My resistance and opposition to injustice wherever or whenever and my concentration on helping prisoners is inspiring.

Concerns and encouragement
Any organization which lobbies against injustice merits support.

Cullis, Tara

David Suzuki Foundation

Suite 219, 2211 W. 4th Ave.
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6K 4S2 Canada

Work Phone: 604-732 4228
Fax: 604-732 0752
Vocation Academic

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

Biographical information
S.D.Interests: Environmental organizing and fundraising with indigenous groups in the Amazon,The Stein, South Moresby, Japan and the Ainu as well as work with the Rio Earth Parliament.
Education: Ph.D. Comparative Literature: Technology and Culture in the 20th Century.
Employment/Experience: Taught writing at Harvard for 5 years: Science and social, ethical issues. Founder: David Suzuki Foundation, Environmental Children's Organization, Our Common Ground, Canadian/ Brazilians for the Rainforest, North American Friends of the Ainu, Kayapo Amazon Research Station.
Languages; other skills: English

Cunningham, Margaret

#12 - 56 Bishop Tutu Blvd.
Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2Z7 Canada

Work Phone: 416-599 0518

Currie, Pat

337 Carral Street
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2J4 Canada

Work Phone: 604-251 2569
Vocation Media

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Education, public awareness, communication

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Strengthening groups (youth, women, First Nations)

Biographical information

Education:: 3 years of university education on the environment.
Employment/Experience: Present: working at SPEC (Society Promoting Environmental Conservation) on a 'Clean Air Commute Campaign'. Present: volunteer at Van. Co-operative Radio (fundraising for a radio series on Women and the Environment) Volunteer on Women Visions radio program at Co-op Radio. Board of Directors at Co-op Radio Worked with Waterloo Public Interest Research Group on popular theatre envrionmental education project, ENVIROMANIACS Volunteered at a Family Crisis Shelter for victims of family violence for 3 years.
Languages; other skills: English.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Areas of Interest and Concern: social justice issues which should be addressed first before we can approach sustainability: racism, classism, ableism, homophobia and sexism. Inspirations: People inspire me - not just someone who has written a book or received a reward for their actions but the everyday positive actions that I see from people on the streets, eg: how parents and children interact, or watching someone pick up litter off the streets.

Concerns and encouragement

Concerns, I am concerned with how racism and elitism restricts many changes for sustainable development.

Changes needed
Factors that need to be addressed to induce change for sustainable development: networking among women locally, and networking globally, access to education for all, and more participation in political lobbying. To facilitate these changes we need education to be funded entirely by the government, so as to have equality in access to education, on a global basis. Large scale networking among women's groups could be achieved by the use of new technology. Women must be given access to areas that were once forbidden and for some still are. The use of radio, television, written and computer medium is a necessity for successful networking. Access to the media is a form of political lobbying. It doesn't stop there. Women have to become familiar with the democratic process that dictate their lifestyles, and challenge them, together.

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