Andrew Riseman, Land and Food Systems

Andrew is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Land and Food Systems, with a strong interest in student-centered, active pedagogies and in developing learning objects and technologies that help create enhanced learning environments. Andrew’s research focuses on breeding of crops for sustainable production systems and helping to create more sustainable food systems integrated with attractive and livable communities. Andrew is also the USI-UBC Farm Liaison, the Academic Director for Centre for Sustainable Food Systems-UBC Farm, a researcher at the UBC Botanical Garden, and an Associate Member in the Department of Botany.

Anneliese Schultz, Arts

Anneliese began lecturing in Italian at UBC in 1991, and for the past four years has taught all of her courses as ‘Green Italian’, incorporating sustainability into the syllabus. Anneliese was the first recipient of the ReThink award, given by the student organization Common Energy to recognize faculty who are incorporating sustainability and climate change into their curriculum, and her article “Green Italian: Changing Course in Time?” was published in TAG’s “Tapestry” Magazine in 2009. She has held fellowships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Praxis Screenwriting Workshop, and her fiction has been published in various magazines and anthologies. Her short play, "27 Years", was produced in 2007 and published in 2008, and she has just completed a post-carbon Young Adult novel," Distant Dream".

Eric Mazzi, Applied Science

Eric is an Instructor at UBC's Clean Energy Research Centre, focusing on demand-side energy efficiency and conservation. He has B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in mechanical engineering, and completed his Ph.D. in Resources & Environment. His interests include both technology and policy aspects of energy systems, particularly for transportation, heavy industry, and electric power generation.

Erica Frank, Medicine

Erica Frank, MD, MPH is a professor in the School of Population and Public Health at UBC, and a Canada Research Chair. She is the founder and principal investigator of the “Healthy Doc = Healthy Patient” initiative which delineates and builds on the relationship between physicians’ personal and clinical practices. Erica is also founder and director of Health Sciences Online (www.hso.info), which aims to create a global virtual health sciences university. She is also past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Kurt Grimm, Science

Kurt Grimm is an associate professor in the Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of British Columbia. From my foundations in Earth systems science and applied ecology, I am specifically interested in the origins of patterning in the real world, and am developing a simple unified description of phenomena in the natural world that deliver broad explanatory power and explicit testability. Topics of interest include self-organizing complexity, environmental and planetary Earth sciences, transformative sustainability learning and A Unified Description of Life (AUDOL). Conceptual and teaching innovations arising inform Life, health, climate and sustainability sciences.

Ron Kellett, Applied Science (SALA)

Ronald Kellett is a Professor of Landscape Architecture in the School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia where he teaches and undertakes research linking issues of environment and sustainability to the form and spatial patterns of cities. He holds degrees in Environmental Studies and Architecture and has practiced and taught architecture and urban design at the Universities of Oregon and British Columbia. His work has contributed to the development of environment- and sustainability- oriented urban design knowledge, prototypes, standards, guidelines, design tools and indicators.