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Mohamed, Salla

#21 8520 Granville Ave.,
Richmond, British Columbia, V6Y-3S4 Canada

Work Phone: 604-276-4570
Biographical information
Not provided

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: events

Mokoena, Sibongile

Ecolink

P.O. Box 727
White River 1240, , South Africa

Work Phone: 01311-32120
Fax: 011-27-1311-33287
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
Mokoena, S. (1994) "A South African Perspective on Participatory Development for Rural Women." Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Experiences of other women and the determination of women to change policies which affect women is inspiring.

Concerns and encouragement
Poverty first must be eliminated and there must be greater public education concerning sustainable development in order to reach the goal of sustainability.

Changes needed
Personal, governmental and bureaucratical attitudes regarding sustainable development should be changed. There should be a greater awareness of the power and responsibility that first world countries have for developing countries.

Molloy, Sheila

Toronto Women for a Just and Healthy Planet

312 - 85 Henry Lane Terrace or 11 Bartlett Ave
Toronto, Ontario, M6G 4B8 or M6H 3E8 Canada

Home Phone: 416-588 2924
Work Phone: 416-964 2551 (247)
Email planetwo@web.apc.org

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Community development, planning

Biographical information
S.D.Interests: Third World Debt and Structural Adjustment Policies, Population Control Policies, Immigrant / Refugee Issues, Free Trade, Globalization.
Education: Background in French language and Literature, Graduate degree in Library Science.
Experience/Employment: Organized conferences, workshops, forums etc .
Language; other skills: English

Your publications related to SD
Molloy, S. (1994) "Women and Population: Enough is Enough". Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Monro, Melody

#6-1171 W 12th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6H 1L7

Home Phone: 604-276-2755
Work Phone: 604-739-0914
Fax: 604-276-0342

Montour, Laurie

L.K. Montour Group

RR # 3
Wallaceburg, Ontario, N8A 4K9 Canada

Work Phone: 519-627-1475
Fax: 519-627-1530
Vocation First Nations

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment, resources

Biographical information
Areas of Interest/Specialization: Indigenous resource management and environmental protection - policy, community based research, data analysis, integration of First Nations' governments. Other SD interest areas are Health, Strengthening Groups. and Communication.
Education: B.Sc. in Ecosystems Biology and another B.A. in Business French.
Employment/Experience: Ecosystem biologist; set up environmental research centre on Walpole Island, First Nation; established national environment devp. at the Assembly First Nations, freelance W FN communities and organization across Canada. Principal in consulting firm that specializes in indigenous resource management and environmental protection.
Memberships: Native American Fish and Wildlife Society; American Indian Science and Engineering Society; Canadian Association for Environmental Analytical Laboratories. English; French; translation of scientific material into "indian English"; knowledge of projects and contacts with First Nations across North America; familiarity with impending and current provincial, territorial and federal regulations and programs. Additional SD interest areas are law and policy; ecology, environment and resources.

Your publications related to SD
Montour, L. (forthcoming, 1994) Principles of Native Natural Resource Agreements, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Doubleday. Montour, L. (1989) Participation of Native People in Northern Science Activities, Comite Arctique International Conference on Global Significand of the Transport and Accumulation of Polychlorinated Hydrocarbons in the Arctic, Oslo, Norway. Montour, L. (1993) First Nation Interest and Rights in the Carolinian Canada Zone, in Caring for Southern Remnants: Special Species, Special Spaces. Canadian Council on Ecological Areas. Montour, L. (1987) Community-Based Environmental Research - Walpole Island Indian Reserve, International Association for Great Lakes Research.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
I am inspired by my work with native communites across Canada and by elder women and hunters. I see that, over the course of human history with indigenous people in North America, sustainable development has worked. Native people have known about sustainability forever; native people have lived on the land for thousands of years with little impact. Our inspiration comes from our philosophy and spirituality in which our relationship to the Creator and to other beings is through the earth. We communicate with the Creator outdoors, in quiet places, in calm, beautiful environments.

Concerns and encouragement
I'm concerned that TECUM, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Management Systems -- the academic perspective on our way of life, looks only at techniques and not at what underlies them. Native approaches are old, well-established and proven. This imposes a double burden on native people: on the one hand we are expected to be environment supermen (as in Dances with Wolves) and are criticised for not being so; and on the other, there is criticism of those who are assimilated. A major challenge is to take the best of what we have and combine that with the best of what non-native people have. Another concern: white people behave like visitors to the land; they don't take the time to really know this country. I'm concerned about the vagueness of the language of sustainable development; it is so vague that it can be used against its original purpose. I'm also concerned about the usefulness of the dollars devoted to sustainable development. I don't like the word "development" because it means "growth" which in turn means "taking away." Sources of encouragement: at least the need for sustainability has been recognized; the Brundtland report is useful and accessible, with clear language and good examples; SD is part of being "green" and environmentally friendly, and it's good to do anything to wake people up; native people are being listened to now -- there is am emerging recognition of the value of traditional knowledge and of what native people have to offer; native people continue to be willing to contribute and to participate in the discussion, which in view of our many negative experiences, surprises and softens me.

Changes needed
Native people need to be able to do things for themselves and not be constrained by the imposition of provincial and federal laws; the lack of recognition of aboriginal rights hampers what native people need to do and generated conflict, long expensive court procedures and animosity. This is not only a problem in Canada, which gives us the responsibility to speak out at the UN level about conceptual rights and issues for indigenous people. Changes needed at the community level are a microcosm of what's needed internationally. People who are fighting for their rights are seen as troublemakers; there is a need for more real cooperation. There is a need for a university program geared to native resource management -- first for native students, then for both native and non-native students. There are useful models in the American and Innu Science and Engineering Society and the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society. There is a need for legislative and policy changes -- aboriginal rights have to be recognized; the status quo is no longer acceptable. Changes are coming; they need to be faster and to take place more cooperatively.

Miscellaneous comments
It is our belief that one can only have healthy people with a healthy land. The exercise of treaty and aboriginal rights to harvest fish, wildlife and plants; to manage the land under aboriginal title, to retain culture and self-sufficiency is dependent on a healthy ecosystem. Yet this can only be done with community-based research and support to protect the land for current and future generations. Out role is to train ourselves out of a job so that the community can take over with confidence.

Moosmann, Brita

3472 Quebec Street,
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 3K1

Home Phone: 604-873-5759
Work Phone: 604-873-5759
Fax: 604-287-2213
Biographical information
Interest areas: environmental protection and management consulting.
Education: Hotel Management School.
Languages; other skills: English

Morgan, Mary

Box 35
Stuartburn, Manitoba, ROA 2BO Canada

Home Phone: 204-425-7747
Work Phone: 204-425-7747
Fax: 204-425-3241
Vocation Activist; Educator

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

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Business, industry, and labour issues

Biographical information

Education: M.A.Ed. - Developing Economic Literacy for people using popular Education Techniques, St. Francis Xavier University, 1992. B.A., major in sociology, University of Winnipeg, 1987.
Employment: Adult Educator in Canada. I developed a curriculum to assist women entering the work force and implemented a curriculum to assist women and men to develop business and plans. The program aided them in understanding basic concepts to facilitate them moving into self-employment in Canada. 1992-1993: Consultant: International human rights work in Guatemala, and community economic development work with women. Assisted IXCHEL (an indigenous women's organization in the rainforest of Guatemala to develop and implement a micro-enterprise programme and a revolving loan fund. I trained a single mother from the region to manage the programme, which is still operating today).
Memberships: Women's World Finance Manitoba, Treasurer, 1993. Western Diversification Women's Enterprise Center, Advisory Board, 1994.
Languages; other skills: English; Spanish

Your publications related to SD
Morgan, M. (1994) "Creating Our Future Today: Initiating Micro-Enterprises and Participating Revolving Future Loan Funds." Morgan, M. (1993) "Creando Nuestro Future Hoy: Iniciando Micro-Empresas y Particpanda en Fondos Reemolsables." Morgan, M. (1994),"Women and Alternative Economic Organizing." Women in Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. Sustainablle Development Research Institute. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994. Morgan, M. (1994), "Microenterprise Development for Women." Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. Sustainable Development Research Institute. U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Areas of Interest and Concern: Economic Literacy: Demystifying the economy so that people and other marginalized sectors can start to make economic concepts work for us while infusing community based values.

I have always had a love for the outdoors. The earth, wind and water have given me a comfort and taught me respect. When I lived with a dog team in the Canadian Arctic the winter of 1983/84, I was appalled at what was being done in the name of 'progress'. The oil exploration activity had devestated the land with its cutlines and had grave effects on the trapping activities of the first nations people in the region. The social havoc and the physical destruction moved me to go to university to learn about 'development'. Part of the requirements for the undergrad degree, World Issues Program, out of the School for International Training in Vermont, was to be at least 7 months in another culture. I went to work for Peace Brigades International as an unarmed body guard for human rights activists. Nineth de Garcia, the founder of the Mutual Support Group for Families of the Disappeared, became my mentor and friend. I started to make the connections between the globalization of the economy, human rights violations, imperialism and the destruction of the environment.

If people are going to live dignified lives, they need to have access to an income in this capitalist world. Income generating activities must respect the earth, for she is the one who sustains us. Working in the area of economic literacy and community development has given me an avenue to channel my skills and passion for a just world.

Concerns and encouragement
If sustainable development is going to be implemented, the economic system as it stands today (capitalist) will have to change. The whole premise of the capitalist system is to make a profit today, thus any effort to protect the earth only brings grief to the ones struggling to defend the earth and her people. I have seen people suffer greatly in Guatemala as they attempt to maintain their culture and have access to land. Here in Canada, the exploitation of the earth and its people is reflected in, upheaval in the First Nations Community, high unemployment, and social disorder as the gap between those who have and those who do not widens in all communities.

Stressing local economic development is a means to revitalize communities.

Changes needed
I don't expect a massive change, because ultimately a change in attitudes has to occur on a grand scale. We have seen a tremendous awakening of awareness about the need to protect our environment, yet the destruction continues in the name of jobs, here in Canada and abroad. Canada should be ashamed at the loss of cod in the East Coast and the destruction of Clayoquot Sound on the West Coast-just 2 major environmental disasters amongst many in our country. Destruction of the environment continues because those who wield power will not permit an economy that includes the development of the social, political, and the cultual components of a society. My hope is in grass roots community groups that are developing community based economic programmes. If there are pockets of hope dispersed, then there is hope that these efforts will have a chance to succeed.

Morgan, Orlis

3207 Milton Avenue
North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7K 2B3

Work Phone: 604-984-9241

Moser, Terry

185 West 18th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V5V 1E4

Home Phone: 604-874-6209

Moss, Pat

Rivers Defense Coalition

Box 222
Smithers, British Columbia, V0J 2N0 Canada

Work Phone: 604-847 9693
Fax: 604-847 6068
Vocation Activist

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

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Ecology, environment, resources

Biographical information

Employment/Experience: Chairperson, Rivers Defense Coalition Director, Sierra Club Chair, NDP Environment Standing Committee Member, B.C. Roundtable on Environment and Economy Chair, National Environment Caucus on Environmental Assessment In the last 15 years has worked with environmentalists, unions, community groups, and aboriginal people on the Kemano Project. Continues work at the local, provincial, and national level.

Your publications related to SD
Moss, P. (1994) "Poster Session: Celebration of Women in the Environmental Movement. " Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, U.B.C., Vancouver, May, 1994.

Mostowky, Fara

3930 Indian River Drive
North Vancouver, British Columbia, V7G 2G8

Work Phone: 604-929-0309

Moura, Jacira Neves

Rua Joao de Souza Rego
No 156, Piata, Bahia, , 41,650-060 Brazil

Mulenkei, Lucy

Position Radio Journalist

Kenya Broadcasting corporation

Box 74908
Nairobi, , Kenya

Home Phone: 254-2-750304
Work Phone: 254-2-222422
Fax: 254-2-715274
Vocation Media

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Health

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

Biographical information
S.D. Interests: women and health; environment and human settlement; education-media.
Languages; other skills

Your publications related to SD
Mulenkei, L. (1994) "Media Images of Women in the South" Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994. Mulenkei, L. , publications-general; women and health; environment and human settlements; children; social problems; education-media.

Sustainable development viewpoints
Inspirations
Inspirations: events of this conference have been set so well and I think we were kept busy as all the workshops were good; the people were very kind and the conference was well organized (The Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference, Vancouver, May, 1994).

Concerns and encouragement
There should be more public education relating sustainable development and the environment.

Changes needed
List of changes needed to approach sustainability: 1) women should be given opportunities to express themselves and to work, like men have. 2) indigenous women should be acknowleged and given the chance to speak as they have a lot to contribute to the community. 3) women should work and help each other in all ways. 5) the women from the North should take their knowledge to women in the South..

Mulla, Zarina

4418 West 13th Avenue
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6R 2V3

Home Phone: 604-228-9363
Work Phone: 604-822-8681
Fax: 604-822-6164

Mullie, Christine Ann

#102 - 2220 West 7th Ave.,
Vancouver,, British Columbia, V6K 1Y2

Work Phone: 604-731-8558

Murphy , Sophia

Canadian Council for International Cooperation

Suite 300, 1 Nicholas Street
Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 7B7 Canada

Home Phone: 613-562-2552
Work Phone: 613- 241-7007 ext. 308
Fax: 613-241-5302
Email ccic ed 2 @web.apc.org

Vocation Activist

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

SD Interest Areas Sustainable development - Law and policy

Your publications related to SD
Murphy, S. (1994) " Women and UNCED: Rio and Beyond: Commission for Sustainable Development" Workshop at the Women and Sustainable Development: Canadian Perspectives Conference. U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., May, 1994.

Murray, Eva

Position Director

National Capital Commission Human Resources

161 Laurier Ave. West
Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 6J6 Canada

Home Phone: 613-239 5552
Work Phone: 613-239 5064
Vocation Bureaucrat

Murray, Melanie

Sierra Legal Defence Fund

# 601 - 207 W. Hastings St.,
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 1H6 Canada

Home Phone: 604-253-8769
Work Phone: 604-685-5618
Fax: 604-685-7813

Myers, Terry

#301-2033 Beach Ave.
Vancouver, British Columbia, V6G 1Z3 Canada

Home Phone: 604-685-5475
Work Phone: 604-669-2533
Fax: 604-669 5232

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