Exciting News!!!
The video that I entered in the Marion Drysdale Contest for the theme, “Suppress Excess; Living Within Our Means,” won provincially in the video-animation category.  I was presented a framed certificate at the award ceremony by the Minister for Education.  This is a prestigious Student Achievement Award held by the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ [...]

I was invited to “teach” the teachers, as a matter of speaking (no pun intended).  The subject of my presentation was youth community leadership.  I told them about my accomplishments over the past few years relating to environmental activism.
I’ve been completing scholarship applications lately and I love this question.  I decided to share my answer [...]

On February 25 and 26 I attended the 1st annual “Sustainable Communities in the North Conference” (Thunder Bay, ON) with members of the Dryden Envirothon Team.  The main issue that the conference addressed was peak oil and resilience of communities.  Conference pre-requisite: watched the documentary – “The End of Suburbia”.
“It is necessary that all the [...]

The Marion Drysdale Contest
I would like to share with you some great news!  I submitted a video entry to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation Student Achievement Awards.  The award contest that I entered was established by the provincial assembly in 1984 in honour of Marion Drysdale for her dedicated work, and so is known as the [...]

What does carrying the Olympic Torch mean to you?
“On January 1, 2008 I made a New Year’s resolution to raise awareness and discourage the use of single use plastic shopping bags.  Being anonymously nominated to carry the Olympic Torch means that I have raised community awareness and I have also become an inspirational role model. [...]