E.T. call home !
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HALIFAX, March 3rd/4th, 2004
Richard Tooker Daniel GOMBERG
Tooker Gomberg, environmentalist, journalist and politician, may have departed our realm...
If he lives, our hearts will rejoice, indeed,
If not, he lives in our hearts
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Excerpt from GREENSPIRATION
at www.greenspiration.org/bios.html
Tooker Gomberg has been writing, educating and organizing on ecological issues for over twenty years. He has had extensive experience with the media. He had a weekly environmental radio show in Montreal as well as in Edmonton, he has produced two half hour videos, he has had dozens of articles and photographs published, and he has done hundreds of media interviews.
He grew up in Montreal, Quebec and received an undergraduate Arts degree (with a focus on environmental studies) in 1980 from Hampshire College, Massachusetts. After returning to Montreal, Tooker founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs, collecting recyclables and educating people about ecological alternatives to waste.
In 1982 he was hired by Alberta Energy (Government of Alberta) and traveled throughout Alberta teaching school students about energy conservation. For four years he developed classroom materials, teachers guides, and student programming.
From 1986 - 92 Tooker worked full time as an environmentalist, consulting and activating around urban issues. He became Executive Director of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters in 1985 and then in 1990 he co-founded the grassroots urban ecological group EcoCity Society.
In 1992 Tooker was elected to Edmonton City Council. He was successful at initiating many Council decisions including: the adoption of water conservation rather than a $300 million expansion of a water treatment facility; the establishment of a water conservation advisory board, a public transit advisory board, an environmental advisory board, and an alternatives-to-pesticides task group; the establishment of an automated transit information system; the research of and investment in solar energy by the local power utility; support for a city-wide backyard compost bin sale; and a pilot project of bicycle racks on city buses.
Since his electoral setback in 1995 Tooker has continued his ecological research and advocacy, and is a popular columnist on urban ecological issues for a local weekly magazine
ANGELA BISCHOFF
Angela Bischoff is a native to Edmonton. Her younger years were spent as a dance performer and instructor. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Alberta (major sociology) and soon after became actively involved with the environmental movement in Edmonton.
From 1986 - 1989 Angela was associate director of the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters. From 1987 - 1990 she was the provincial co-ordinator for the Alberta World Food Day Association where she coordinated the development of school materials and public educational activities based on global food issues. She gave hundreds of school presentations, developed media strategies, and wrote newsletters, etc.
In 1990 she co-founded the EcoCity Society, an Edmonton based urban environmental advocacy organization. As Executive Director from 1992-96 she published an annual environmental newspaper and executed dozens of environmental advocacy campaigns.
1997-98 she and her partner Tooker launched the Greenspiration Odyssey, traveling with their bicycles and documenting, through video and writing, inspiring ecological initiatives.
Since 1999, Angela has been Project Manager with the Toronto Atmospheric Fund and the Clean Air Partnership, agencies of the City of Toronto which aim to reduce climate change and smog emissions. She organizes the annual Smog Summit conference, and manages the educational funding program Cool Schools.
Both Angela and Tooker have extensive travel experience. Collectively, they have traveled through 25 countries and cycled through 15.
ANGELA and TOOKER
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Tooker said, on his GREENSPIRATON website:
We invite your participation and support.
Join our journey!
Do you know of inspiring projects that we might visit?
Would you like to sponsor our odyssey?
Could you put us in touch with a media producer who will help share the stories?
Do you have $100 to sponsor us for a few days?
Please keep in touch.
I wonder, all of us, how much we did show by our deeds, how much he meant to us...
and from thereon, in the future, how little gestures could change the lives of important people in our life,
so more of our fellowman can indeed feel our concern.
Love. Danielle. ddlemyre@yahoo.com
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