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James Reinert
E-mail: smartplantguy at gmail dot com
(Still under construction)
EDUCATION
2011 Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada. Will be studying sustainable agriculture.
07-09 SFU, Focused on Evolution and Ecology and sustainable development.
‘03 Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Horticulture Tech. Diploma, graduated with honors.
‘98 Centennial High School, Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
High School Diploma, graduated with Honors.
WORK
1998- current
Free lance landscaper and landscape consultant
Landscape installation
Maintenance
Consulting for residential landscapes, with a focus on low
maintenance plant selections, and sustainable designs
January to April 2010
Canvasser for the Wilderness Committee
Fundraising, membership drive
Phone canvassing
2009 Wilder Snail Café, locally owned, fair trade, organic coffee
shop
Barista
Cash register
Making espresso
Serving customers
June ‘05- December ’06,
EJ Canada College, Tokyo, Japan:
Full-time instructor, teaching English to preschool level children
Developed and taught a two year curriculum for children
‘04-‘07 Always Learning Academy, Coquitlam, B.C., Canada:
Full time instructor, k-12.
EXPERIENCE
July 2005 to current
Coordinator for the Vancouver Car Free Festival, coordinating
Epicentre, a food security event:
Coordinating volunteers
Educating the public about food security
Event planning
2008 to present
Officer of the Work Less Party
Co-hosting events
Campaigner
Office coordinator
January-August ‘06
Indonesia, Volunteered with the Orang-utan Foundation
International:
Assisted with orang-utan rehabilitation
trained OFI assistants in the area of organic agriculture
lived in Indonesian village for six months
June ‘05- December ‘06
EJ Canada College, Tokyo, Japan:
full time instructor, teaching English to preschool level children
developed and taught a two year curriculum for children
LEADERSHIP
‘06 Volunteered with the Orang-utan Foundation in Indonesia.
‘02- Host of Spoken Revelations – a weekly literary series on
Commercial Drive
‘07
‘05 Helped organize and co-host the poetry stage at the Commercial
Drive Car Free Festival
’05 Established the Guerrilla Gardening Collective, which created
a handful of community gardens in East Vancouver. I appeared in a
segment on Global News about urban organic vegetable gardening.
’04 Volunteered in Valdivia, Chile with the Nature Conservancy,
built trails in the Alerce forests in the mountains of Valdivia.
‘94- Volunteer, Burke Mountain Naturalists, Coquitlam,
youngest member of the
‘97 conservation and trail building committees. Led groups of
naturalists on local trail, helped build trails, and assisted in
letter writing campaigns.
‘94- Volunteer, Western Canada Wilderness Committee, trail
building in the Coast
’97 Mountains.
CERTIFICATES HELD
Oil Spill Worker
Teaching ESL
First Aid
CPR Level 1
Food Safe
INTERESTS
I am an artist, and poet, as well as a performer. I spend a lot of
time reading or researching anything to do with biology, botany,
ecology, physics, evolution, conservation and sustainable
development. I am currently maintaining my own seed bank in an
effort to preserve rare and unusual varieties of plants. I like
learning about new computer programs & enjoy using the internet
for personal research. I enjoy working on, and upgrading my bike,
and spend a lot of time cycling, as opposed to using other forms
of transportation.
REFERENCES
Tammy Lea Meyer:
Phone: ***available upon request***
E-mail: ***available upon request***
Canvass coordinator, Wilderness Committee.
Boyd Thomson:
Phone: ***available upon request***
E-mail: ***available upon request***
Owner and operator of the Wilder Snail Cafe
Professor Biruté Galdikas:
Phone: ***available upon request***
E-mail: ***available upon request***
President of the Orangutan Foundation International, L.A.,
Anthropology Professor, SFU (if the Professor is not available,
please let me know, and I’ll forward you her reference letter.)
Conrad Schmidt:
Phone: ***available upon request***
E-mail: ***available upon request***
Founder and organizer of the Work Less Party, Vancouver.
