Our Team

Worker Members

Our expertise ranges from program design and management to data collection and interpretation.

Roland Chiasson BSc, MES, BEd

Wildlife Biology & Environmental Education and Outdoor Learning 

Roland has worked for private and public sectors for over 35 years conducting ecological inventories, especially for birds, mammals and amphibians. He was the education and outreach manager at Cape Jourimain Nature Centre where he created a diverse environmental education program. He is well known for his innovative nature programs and for working with teachers and other non-profits group. He is one of the founders of Great Minds Think Outside, a bilingual hands-on, curriculum-linked, outdoor professional development program that gives educators the skills and resources they need to teach their students outside-whatever the subject matter. (CV)

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Eric Tusz-King MAdEd, MTS

Sustainability and Co-operative Development Consultant

Eric is a co-operative developer that brings many years of experience assisting various types of new and existing co-ops and other non-profit organizations. From his previous role as manager of EnerGreen Builders Co-operative, a worker-owned home construction co-operative that builds passive solar homes, he brings his knowledge and experience of the energy efficiencies of various buildings from homes to churches.

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Margaret Tusz-King B.Sc.(Pharm), MEd.

Margaret brings 25 years of experience in non-profit executive leadership, program design, project management, planning, facilitation and co-operative entrepreneurship. Her varied background in health sciences research, adult education, disability education, and in local government and climate change mean that she is adaptable, and undaunted by complexity or challenge. The founding Executive Director of Open Sky Co-operative – an innovative community-based organization that serves adults challenged by disabilty or mental illness – Margaret is also a Mental Health First Aid trainer and has certification in Co-operative Business Management. (CV)

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Mira Dietz Chiasson

Translation Services

Mira has been providing translation services for environmental NGOs for over 10 years. She is currently working towards improving her skills as a translator with the end goal of becoming fully certified.

(CV)

EMAIL MIRA

 

Worker Member and Treasurer

Sabine Dietz BA, MES, PhD,

Bookkeeper

Joy Banks

Associate Members

Theo Popma (Environmental Impact Assessments, Wetland Delineation)

Mathieu Caroll (Bird Surveys)

Susan Dean (Environmental Education, Editing)

Jolène Dubé (Bird Surveys)

 

NGO Members

  • New Brunswick Environmental Network is a communication network that links together over 100 non-profit environmental organizations.
  • EOS Eco Energy is a not-for-profit organization based out of Sackville working on energy, climate change, and sustainability in Tantramar.
  • Nature NB is a provincial charitable organization whose mission is to celebrate, conserve and protect New Brunswick’s natural heritage through education, networking and collaboration.
  • Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre compiles and provides objective data about biological diversity in Atlantic Canada, and we undertake fieldwork to further knowledge of the distribution and status of species and ecological communities of conservation concern.
  • Open Sky Co-operative provides home, skills programs, vocational assistance and community connections for adults who require supports to improve their quality of life.
  • La Bikery Co-operative is a community bicycle centre with a workshop space for bicycle maintenance and repairs.