Robyn Hall is the communications manager for Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, a non-profit consultancy that helps Canadian companies improve their social, environmental and economic performance.

University of Waterloo professor and the magazine’s long-time editor, Robert Gibson chairs Alternatives’ editorial board and writes our back-page column: What’s the Big Idea. He reads every word of every issue and can be thanked for the best – and the poopiest – article titles. Substitution gets us genetic engineering, nuclear […]

Ray Tomalty is principal of Smart Cities Research, a Montréal consulting firm that specializes in issues related to urban sustainability. He is also an adjunct professor at the School of Urban Planning at McGill University, an A\J editorial board member and a regular contributor to the magazine.

Stephen Svenson, PhD, Department of Sociology, Department of Global Studies Wilfrid Laurier University

Stew Hilts teaches in the Ontario Agricultural College at the University of Guelph. He studies farmland ­preservation policies. Ione Smith is a special projects co-ordinator with Smart Growth BC. Melissa Watkins is the executive director of the Ontario Farmland Trust.

Lauren Baker was the founding director of Sustain Ontario, which takes a collaborative approach to food and agriculture, namely building bridges between issues, sectors, regions, and urban and rural communities. She has also picked up the rein at the Toronto Food Policy Council. 

Kyrke Gaudreau is the Sustainability Manager at the University of Northern British Columbia. Dr. Gaudreau completed his PhD in social and ecological sustainability at the University of Waterloo where his research focused on the sustainability assessment of energy systems. He has consulted on various strategic and environmental assessments of energy systems […]