David B. Brooks is a natural-resource economist and a member of Alternatives’ editorial board. He was a founding director of Canada’s Office of Energy Conservation, director of the Ottawa Office of Energy Probe, and, for the last 14 years of his formal professional career, associate director for environment and natural resource studies […]

Colleen Kimmett is a Vancouver-based freelancer who writes about environmental issues.  

Clarissa Morawski is the principal of CM Consulting, which provides research, analysis, communications and strategic planning services in the area of waste reduction and regulatory affairs.

Chris Wood, is an author, speaker and journalist. He first wrote about the environment in the 1970s, winning awards for his coverage of nuclear power and agrochemicals. His most recent book, Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources (2013), written with Ralph Pentland, details how successive federal governments […]

Chris McLaughlin is a principal in the consulting firm Schneider McLaughlin and a research associate of the Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy at McMaster University. He is also the executive director of the Coalition of the Niagara Escarpment. For original research in applied resilience theory, see Ecology and Society at http://ecologyandsociety.org, a […]

Chris Magwood is executive director of The Endeavour Centre, a non-profit sustainable building school in Peterborough, Ontario, and author of the forthcoming Making Better Buildings: A Comparative Guide to Sustainable Construction for Homeowners and Contractors.

Chelsea Gutzman is a former A/J editorial intern, now working on a post-grad degree in journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax. 

Cecilia Chen lives in Montreal where she is an architect and researcher.

Carol Maas is the innovation and technology director with the POLIS Water Sustainability Project. She takes short showers, launders clothes in the cold stuff and her gardens take no water at all.