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.