("Canada's Queen of Green")
"Hope and Engagement:
Tackling Climate Change and Pipeline Politics"
Monday, May 12 at 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Stevenson and Hunt Room
London Public Library 251 Dundas St., London, Ontario
$5 suggested donation
http://www.tzeporahberman.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzeporah_Berman
Tzeporah Berman has been designing and winning environmental campaigns in Canada and internationally for 20 years. She currently works as a strategic advisor for dozens of environmental organizations, First Nations and philanthropic advisors on clean energy, oilsands and pipelines. She is the former co-director of Greenpeace International's Global Climate and Energy Program, Executive Director and Co-founder of PowerUp Canada and Co-founder and Campaign Director of ForestEthics. Tzeporah was one of the experts in Leonardo Di Caprio's environmental documentary 11th hour, was one of six Canadian nominees for the Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, has been profiled as one of 50 Visionaries Changing the World in Utne Reader and as "Canada's Queen of Green" in the cover story for Readers Digest. This year Tzeporah was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of British Columbia. Her first book, This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge was recently published by Knopf Canada.
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