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Ideas That Change The World Symposium Profiles

Panel Theme: Sustainability and Environment

Panel 2: The Politics and The Law


Jim Buttle head shot.

 

Jim Buttle

Professor and Chair of Geography at Trent

Moderator

 

Jim Buttle's research focuses on hydrological and hydrochemical processes, and their response to landscape change. His current work examines soil water, groundwater and streamflow response to forest harvesting in various landscapes across Ontario. Jim teaches a variety of undergraduate courses in Physical Geography, including Hydrology, Water in the Subsurface Environment, Pedology and Fluvial Geomorphology. Each course emphasizes the field work aspects of the subject, as well as the application of modelling approaches.

Jamie Benidickson

 

Jamie Benidickson '67

Lawyer, Professor of Law, University of Ottawa

 

Professor Benidickson teaches Canadian and International Environmental Law, Water Law, Sustainable Development Law and Legal History at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. In addition to these academic interests, he has been actively involved in the public policy process through his work with a number of royal commissions and inquiries, including the Royal Commission on Economic Union and Development Prospects for Canada and the Walkerton inquiry.

Stephen Hill

 

Stephen Hill

Associate Professor of Environmental Resource Science/Studies, Trent University

 

Dr. Hill teaches in the Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program and supervises graduate students in the Frost Centre and Sustainability Studies. Professor Hill’s research interests focus on renewable energy policy in Canada. He also works on processes of social learning and innovation around community-based environmental management and policy, particularly within the Peterborough area. Professor Hill’s work attempts to cross boundaries of disciplines and institutions, and to connect ideas, theory, and practice.

Bob Page

 

Bob Page

ERS Founder and Climate Activist

Bob Page was one of the founders of Trent’s ERS Program as well as an early member of the History Department until fleeing West to become a Dean at the University of Calgary in 1990. Since then he has enjoyed a career as both an academic and a business executive in the electricity sector. He has been most active nationally and internationally on climate change and energy issues. Today besides his work for the University of Calgary business school, he is a Director of the Alberta Environmental Monitoring, Evaluation, and Reporting Agency (Edmonton) and Chair, of the ISO 14000 (International Environmental Standards) Board (Geneva). He still watches Trent closely from his visits to his cottage north of Buckhorn.       

 

Aimee Blyth

 

Aimee Blyth '05

Manager, The Seasoned Spoon


Since 2009 Aimee has been the General Manager of the Seasoned Spoon Café at Trent. The Spoon is a cooperative café that serves local, organic food and offers educational opportunities for students and community members to learn about food issues. Throughout the last 4 years the Spoon has undertaken many exciting projects including building and ecological, off-grid root cellar. Aimee holds a Masters degree in Canadian Studies from Trent focusing on small-scale agriculture and local food systems.

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