Month: January 2020

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Welcome New Member David Dodge

We welcome David Dodge. David is the producer of Green Energy Futures, a series of more than 240 documentaries on clean energy leaders, projects and technologies from across Canada. You can see his documentaries at www.GreenEnergyFutures.ca and listen to his features weekly on CKUA Radio across Alberta.

David is the founding and former co-chair of Edmonton’s Energy Transition Advisory Committee and the founding & former chair of Energy Efficiency Alberta. David also produced 330 episodes of the award winning EcoFile Radio series on sustainability for CKUA Radio, has published two magazines and was production manager of Lone Pine Publishing. He has worked as a journalist and a photojournalist. 

He’s a past president of the Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues (EFCL) and Evansdale Community League. He’s currently the Director of Sustainability at Evansdale where he carried out an energy efficiency retrofit and two solar projects that now produce 100% of the electricity for Evansdale on a net-annual basis. He is also an advisor to the Green Leagues program at the EFCL and a member of the EFCL 100th  Anniversary Committee.

David is delighted to join us and looks forward to contributing to the development and growth of Wayfinders Business Cooperative and to offer his knowledge and expertise on energy use and urban environmental issues.

David can be reached at 780.232.6162 or by email at: david@greenenergyfutures.ca ||| Welcome David!

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2019 Retro

What I always enjoy most this time of year is the mirror of reflection that turns to a window on the future. Its a time to measure and celebrate successes and plan for new ones. Its a time to indulge in the memories of good times, good works and good people. Its then time to project our best intentions and plot their realization.

Wayfinders has been making great progress of late, thanks to a team of committed people in their chosen land. I would like to thank them especially, for their contributions to our developing websites:

  • Shagufta Tasneem
  • Alain Katihabwa
  • Shun Li
  • Ye Lui
  • Deepa Bhanashali
  • Bratati Bhattacharya
  • Aanandi Khera
  • Yogesh Patel

Darry Heuman and William Fritzberg have provided a indispensable guidance and leadership through this effort. Thanks to Dean Heuman and Focus Communication for the use of their meeting space.

I’d like to thank my fellow board directors for their contributions and guidance:

Thanks to great facilitation by Bill Moore-Kilganon we now have a working strategic plan! We worked through the annual financial statements and now our strategic plan is unfolding.

Thanks to Marie Gervais, Rena Chiovelli and Kirsha Campbell for preparing the important member survey, and Rena Chiovelli for helping with our FB Group and hosting our summer gathering. These are critical components of serving our member’s needs.

Summer Social Gathering at Rena’s home
Spring Mixer at Ricky’s All Day Grill
Leo at trade show booth at EREIC Connector event

Thank you to Fresia Pilquil and Paul Cheung for their video productions. We can expect to see more of this coming soon.

Thanks to Kirsha Campbell and Evelinne Crawford Teichgraber for helping out on the Finance Team and thanks in advance for the support for financial planning yet to come.

Thanks to Leo Campos Aldunez in particular for recruiting new members and contributors, organizing events, but also for providing the sounding board.

We are nothing if not grateful!