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Green Building Showcase organizers thrilled about keynote speaker
The organizers of the upcoming Green Builders Showcase/Conference in Kimberley are thrilled to be presenting keynote speaker Chris Turner, Friday, March 2 at the Kimberley Conference and Athlete Training Centre.
Turner is one of Canada’s leading writers and speakers on sustainability and the global ‘cleantech’ industry. He is the author of The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy (Random House 2011). He is also the author of the 2007 bestseller The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need (Random House), a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction and the National Business Book Award. He was a featured speaker at the 2008 Alfred Deakin Innovation Lectures in Melbourne, Australia, and a 2010 Fleck Fellow at the Banff Centre.
Turner’s first book was the international bestseller Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation (Random House 2004). His magazine writing has earned seven National Magazine Awards and appeared in Fast Company, Time, Utne Reader, The Walrus, The Globe & Mail, Canadian Geographic and many other publications. He is a featured blogger at MNN.com. He lives in Calgary with his wife, the photographer Ashley Bristowe, and their two children.
Wildsight’s Erna Jensen-Shill described Turner as “very passionate, well informed and leading speaker/author on sustainability and ‘cleantech.’ Very lucky to have him coming to Kimberley next week.”
Turner’s Keynote address – ‘The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in a Sustainable Economy, begins at 7 p.m.
The Green Building Showcase also runs on Saturday, March 3, from 12 – 4 p.m., with 25 exhibitors featuring green products and services for home building.
For more information contact the College of the Rockies Kimberley Campus: Phone: 250-427-7116 ext. 3752 email: [email protected].
For more on Chris Turner…
Globe & Mail review of The Leap: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/the-leap-by-chris-turner/article2233716/page1/
TEDxYYC talk on The Leap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prGdWKod7r4
Official Random House page for The Leap: https://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307359223
Author website: https://turnersleap.com/
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