Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Urban Thinkers

http://www.urbanthinkers.ca/

Urbanthinkers is a cluster of sustainability advocates based in East Vancouver - led by Arthur Orsini, Director of Programs.

Arthur Orsini, M.A. (Env. Ed.) has been working on school-based sustainable transportation initiatives since 1997 in communities across BC. His focus on youth engagement and student leadership earned the Off Ramp program an OECD award for Sustainable Transport (Education & Youth) in 2000.

In 2007, he recruited, trained and facilitated a team of teen leaders in delivering the YWALK Youth Forum at Toronto's Walk21 conference. Orsini is currently the School Travel Planning Facilitator (BC) in a national pilot project. In 2005/2006 he was a School Travel Co-ordinator in Auckland, NZ. Orsini lives car-free in East Vancouver where he is the Parent Volunteer Co-ordinator of the Templeton Secondary School Bike Crew.

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