Guy Dauncey, President, Victoria

Guy Dauncey is a speaker, author and sustainable communities consultant who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action. He is author of the award-winning book Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change, and co-author of Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic, and other titles. He is co-chair of Prevent Cancer Now, founder of The Solutions Project, co-founder of the Victoria Car-Share Cooperative, and publisher of EcoNews, a monthly newsletter that promotes the vision of a sustainable Vancouver Island. His website is www.earthfuture.com.

Tom Hackney, Vice President, Victoria

Tom serves as policy specialist and treasurer for the BCSEA. He has led several BCSEA interventions in BC Utilities Commission reviews of BC Hydro's energy plans, working to ensure that the costs of greenhouse gas emissions are factored into energy decisions and to promote energy conservation along with other sustainable energies. With Guy Dauncey, he co-authored BCSEA's policy document, Sustainable Energy Policies for British Columbia. Tom's background is in science and architecture, and he is particulary interested in stimulating social and political action to address global climate change.

Naomi Devine, Secretary, Victoria

Naomi Devine is a climate change and sustainability policy advisor who recently joined the office of Campus Planning and Sustainability at the University of Victoria in order to help create the university’s first sustainability policy and action plan. In November 2007, she was appointed to British Columbia’s Climate Action Team, which offers the Cabinet Committee on Climate Action policy advice on measures to achieve its legislated greenhouse gas reductions of 33% below 2007 levels by 2020, as well as setting interim targets for 2012 and 2016.

In 2006 she represented Canadian youth as a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference [UNFCCC COP 12, MOP 2], in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a co-founder of Common Energy at the University of Victoria an organization that works to move the university ‘beyond climate-neutral’. She is a co-author on the report: Building on Progress: A Plan to move the University of Victoria Beyond Climate-Neutral. Naomi recently finished her term as Vice-Chair on the City of Victoria’s Environment and Shoreline Advisory Committee. A member of the Board since 2005 she is also the founding Chair of the Victoria Chapter.

Chris Eich, Treasurer, Victoria

Born and raised in Montreal, Chris credits his parents for instilling his profound love and awe for nature and the environment. Having graduated with a degree in Economics, Chris has always been fascinated with the impacts of externalities. Negative externalities are the bads of society which we can reduce by putting a price on carbon and other
pollutants among other methods. Thus, Chris works diligently with the hopes of Carbon Finance being ubiquitous globally. Chris brings his brokerage and mid-market lending expertise along with his fund-raising skills to the BCSEA. Chris sees himself as a motivator, educator and leader.

Chris lives an active lifestyle which includes cycling and squash to name a few. He believes we can achieve a lifestyle of permanence in the very near future. Carpe Diem.

Dave Dakers, Victoria

David is a Certified Management Accountant (1985) with over 25 years of financial management experience in the energy sector, most recently as Corporate Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of a publicly listed junior energy company. In the short term, David's intent is to apply his business acumen and financing expertise to facilitate BCSEA's growth as the organization's business plan and mandate are expanded to keep pace with BC's sustainable energy issues. In the long term, David hopes to participate with emerging green technology and provide the strategic leadership, project management and financing support required to successfully incubate and commercially introduce products to the investment community and its rapidly expanding opportunity for ethical funds.

Romilly Cavanaugh, Vancouver

Romilly is the president of R Cavanaugh & Associates Inc, an environmental consulting company located in Vancouver, BC. She conducts greenhouse gas inventories and reduction programs. Romilly has a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Bio-Resource Engineering, and is currently working towards a Masters of Environmental Management through Harvard. She is the Deputy Chair of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC's Sustainability Committee, and a Director and Policy Committee member of BCSEA. Romilly is also a member of the Canada Green Building Council, and has her designation as a LEED accredited professional. She is a supporter of numerous environmental organizations, and is passionate about addressing climate change. In her spare time, she loves to be out in nature windsurfing and skiing.

Sue Dakers, Victoria

Sue is a professional fundraiser having completed her National Certificate for Fundraising at Mount Royal College in June of 2007. Prior to her emigration to Canada in 1997, Sue practiced as a lawyer specializing in landlord and tenant litigation. In Canada, she worked as a senior paralegal focusing on oil and gas litigation before turning to an alternative career in fundraising. Her work in the fundraising world has involved her with the arts community (Theatre Calgary and Alberta Theatre Projects) and the Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Calgary. A recent import to Victoria, Sue has recently completed a contract with the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and she is a member of the local chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Eric Doherty, Vancouver

Eric is a transportation planning consultant. Previously he worked as a researcher and environmental consultant dealing with energy issues. His consulting experience includes providing technical assistance and project management for BC Hydro's Green Electricity Resources of BC map. He was also the lead author of the UBC Students Society's unique environmental sustainability strategy based on environmental footprint analysis, the Lighter Footprint Strategy. Eric has an MA from the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning and a BA in Geography from Simon Fraser University. Transportation is one of the fastest growing sources of unsustainable energy consumption, and an area of great potential for change. He is also a board member of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation (SPEC) and a spokesperson for the Livable Region Coalition (LRC), taking an active role in promoting sustainable solutions in opposition to the Ministry of Transportation's plan to expand Highway 1 into Vancouver. He authored the LRC's paper Transportation for a Sustainable Region: Transit or Freeway Expansion.

Craig Henderson, Naramata

Craig Henderson is the executive director of the Naramata Conservation Society, a community environmental charity in the Okanagan. His work involves developing strategies for protection and preservation of ecologically-fragile land and staging public events to increase awareness of local environmental issues. Naramata Conservation also has a mission to encourage local residents to consider renewable power and environmentally-sustainable building techniques and materials

Craig has a background in media and small business. He has been a journalist, editor of a magazine devoted to socially-responsible travel and operated a bicycle tour company focused on BC history and outdoor adventure. For hobbies, Craig dabbles in the ever changing world of hybrid cars, loves folding bicycles and he hikes the arid grasslands and forests near his home.

Gunther Honold, Victoria

It is fundamental to my nature to have a passionate interest in the development of sustainable and environmentally tolerable energy technologies and their application. I have over forty years work experience in private and public building heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration design, and all phases of project management in Southern Germany and in B.C. I am now retired from service with the BC Buildings Corp after twenty years in building systems related design and project management services, including renewable energy technologies, mostly Solar DHW. I also was Chairman of a BCBC Indoor Air Quality task force for some years. I am Life Member of ASHRAE. Since the early seventies I have been keenly engaged in the promotion and application of sustainable energy technologies, including the co-ordination of workshops and public interest meetings in the heady days of the "first" energy crisis of the '70s. I look forward to what we may accomplish with BCSEA.

Lorna Medd, Cobble Hill

Lorna is a public health physician who is the Medical Health Officer for Central Island VIHA. Her actions are underpinned by her concern for the population health impacts of climate change and food insecurity. She is involved with efforts to green the health care system, and in collaboration with others is developing an ecosystem health rotation for students in a number of health-related disciplines.

New to the Board this year, she was a founding member and secretary-treasurer of the Central Interior chapter in Prince George (2005) She sees BCSEA as a vitally important force for change, and is proud to have a part in it. She believes that local chapters are key to well-informed populations able to take effective action at several levels. Strong and well-supported chapters are a primary interest at the moment. Lorna supports a number of environmental and biodiversity organizations. In her spare time she dreams of being an organic farmer.

Chris Mott, Vancouver

Chris is serving as the Policy and Advocacy coordinator for BCSEA's Vancouver Chapter Steering Committee. He is completing a Masters degree in electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia and when he's not working on his thesis, he's busy pursuing his deep passion for working toward a peaceful and ecologically balanced future for humanity. His professional experience as an engineer ranges from positions with large high-tech companies in Vancouver to his present role as V.P. Engineering in a local start-up company. He brings a broad perspective on sustainability from his extensive travels and volunteer work with a sustainable agriculture project in Brazil, as well as his involvement in a sustainability outreach program with the Campus Sustainability Office at UBC. Chris looks forward to serving the BCSEA Board with his knowledge of sustainable energy, professional experience, and motivation to see the BCSEA become a key driver towards a sustainable future for British Columbia.

Kevin Pegg, Victoria

Kevin Pegg is president of Energy Alternatives, one of Canada's leading renewable energy companies. Kevin has been working with various alternative energy technologies since 1992 and has installed or supplied hundreds of renewable energy systems. He has extensive experience in the design and installation of solar PV, thermal, wind and microhydro systems. Kevin is BCSEA's foremost sponsor, contributing office space, web and email servers and countless other services to our efforts.

Ken Schwantje, Delta

After 30 years in the high-tech computer and telecommunications industries in management, and sales engineering positions, Ken was presented with an opportunity to really make a change. Two and a half years later, with a successful landscape curbing business under his belt and completing a international renewable energy program, he's very much looking forward to using his passion and breath of experience in this exciting new industry. The 10 month World Wind Energy Institute program which wrapped up in April of this year was headquartered in Denmark's Nordic Folkecenter and included stints in three of their centers Ydby Denmark, St. Lawrence College Kingston Ontario, and Ciudad Universitaria José Antonio Echeverría's Center for the study of Renewable Energy Technologies, in Habana, Cuba.

Ken lives on a boat in Delta and keeps his carbon "foot print" smaller than his size 14's and is working on several distributed energy opportunities in Canada and the US employing biomass, wind, solar thermal and heat recovery energy generation technologies.

Scott Sinclair, Vancouver

Scott is the owner of SES Consulting Inc., and as an expert in energy efficiency in commercial buildings he helps clients such as Telus, UBC and the provincial government of BC to reduce their energy footprint and save greenhouse gases. In addition, Scott managed and lead the BCSEA’s Climate Change Showdown Project for more than two years, and was previously Chair of the Chapters Committee. As he recently has become a new father, Scott has stepped down from his role as BCSEA Vice President to focus more on family and the growth of his business. Through two years of volunteer internships in Central America, India and Africa, and working with Dr. Vandana Shiva and Dr. Jane Goodall, Scott has learned to engage and inspire people. He looks forward to a vision of BC where all of our energy comes from clean sustainable sources, and knows that this is possible within his lifetime.

John Stonier, Vancouver

John Stonier is the Vice President of Finance of Day4 Energy Inc, a Canadian company based in Burnaby, BC, which manufactures photovoltaic modules using its unique and industry leading technology. John has over 20 years experience in senior financial officer and entrepreneurial roles in the telecommunications, internet and alternative energy sectors. He was active in the startup of two notable BC companies, GT Group Telecom (1996) and Day 4 Energy Inc. (2002). John is a Chartered Accountant (1987) with KPMG in Vancouver and Toronto, and received a BA (Economics, 1980) from the University of BC. John is has a broad scope of experience in renewable energy, building and vehicle energy efficiency, and sustainable building systems. He is an active advocate of the battery electric car, and is currently in the process of converting a late model gasoline production car into a full battery electric for daily urban driving. Ultimately he plans to recharge his electric car using electricity generated from a solar PV array. He is also a Director of the Vancouver Electric Vehicle Association.