Anita Burke is up on the cutting edge of sustainability and concepts such as natural capitalism and industrial ecology. As well, she says the extraction of hydrocarbons may not even fit into a model of sustainable development. What makes this viewpoint even more interesting is that Anita worked for so long in the oil industry. Until recently, Anita worked for Shell International as the advisor to the Shell International Committee of managing Directors on the operationalisation of sustainable d...
Pamela is a founding member of Regenesis Collaborative Development Group, Inc., established to support regenerative developments— creative collaborations that weave together the diverse human and natural needs, aspirations and dynamics of a place into a harmonious and sustainable whole. She works with project development teams and community groups to build critical systems thinking skills and holistic planning processes and designs that can address complex systems problems and opportunities. S...
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William Rees received his PhD in population ecology from the University of Toronto and has taught at the University of British Columbia’s School of Community and Regional Planning (SCARP) since 1969-70. Prof Rees’ teaching and research focus on the public policy and planning implications of global environmental trends and the necessary ecological conditions for sustainable socioeconomic development. Much of this work is in the realm of human ecology and ecological economics where Prof Rees is ...
