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“Green Light,” My Profile of Tzeporah Berman

Posted: October 14th, 2009 | Author: | Filed under: Published Work | Tags: , , , , | 4 Comments »

The original tree-hugger.

The original tree-hugger.

The November issue of Vancouver magazine features my profile on Tzeporah Berman, cofounder of ForestEthics and executive director of PowerUP Canada. Links to both Web and PDF versions below.

Berman is a Canadian climate activist of considerable influence who has inserted herself at the center of a significant green-energy backlash here in her home province of British Columbia. A fierce public debate rages here over “run of river” hydro power projects, which temporarily divert river water to spin turbines. The resulting electricity is carbon-free, but opponents of the projects claim the schemes aren’t as green as they claim to be. The fight is getting very nasty. As the story documents, at one point Berman’s support for renewable-energy development led to a threat of professional blackmail.

Check out “Green Light,” published in the November 2009 issue of Vancouver magazine.

Green Light, [Web version at Vanmag.com]

Green Light, [2.3 MB .PDF FILE]