Vibrant Communities in Dynamic Environments

October 13 – 14, 2012

In 2012 the New Brunswick Environmental Network (NBEN) partnered with a number of environmental groups based out of Sackville, New Brunswick (including RCE Tantramar) to put on a weekend-long Annual General Assembly. The October weekend focused on how to build vibrant communities with strong environmental foundations.

Participants had the opportunity to attend presentations, listen to a panel, and be guided on tours facilitated by:

Roland Chiasson, Cape Jourimain Nature Centre & Andrew Macfarlane, Chignecto Naturalists Club
Emily Phillips, RCE Tantramar
Mount Allison University
Susan Machum, professor of Sociology at St Thomas University and Canada Research Chair in Rural Social Justice
Jamie Steel, Director of Sunbury Shores Arts and Nature Centre
EOS Solar Hot Water Campaign, 2011; Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Canada Chapter; & Emma Hebb, Sierra Club Canada – Atlantic Canada Chapter
Stephanie Merrill, Conservation Council of NB; Mary Ann Coleman, NBEN & Alec Boudreau, Samuel de Champlain Green Team
Rémi Donelle, Transition Towns Cocagne & Michel Desjardins, Post Carbon Greater Moncton
Margaret Tusz-King, Aboriginal Rights Coalition Atlantic; Chief Hugh Akagi, Chief of the Passamaquoddy First Nation in Canada; and Matthew Abbott, Fundy Baykeeper
Sackville Community Gardeners and Daimen Hardie, Community Forests International
Dr. David Lieske, professor of Geography and Environment at Mount Allison University
Atlantic Wildlife Institute Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre
Open Sky Co-operative
Youth Environmental Action Network