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I would pair Rob Stewart, a Canadian environmentalist with a passion in marine life, to Tim Silverwood. Tim is a young Australian man who became interested in the state of our oceans when surfing on Australian beaches in his younger years. In 2011, Tim sailed 5000km to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and later spoke on a TedX talk about his experience. Through the establishment of his not-for-profit organization "Taken 3", he has provided education to over 100,000 students on environmental activism. Rob and Tim are a great pair because they both have a passion for the ocean and education.

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George B Grinnell was an activist for migratory birds in the late 1800's and early 1900's. He launched campaigns against the hunting law. His campaigning was at its highest point when the Lacey Act of 1900 and the Migratory Bird Treaty with Great Britain was underway in 1916. Later, Grinnell served as the first advisory board for the Federal Migratory Bird Law. He supported hunting laws and helped enact the Yellowstone Park Protection Act of 1894 from his investigation of poaching in the park itself. Georges love of birds and saving the migratory birds are perfect qualities that Jack Miner would love. They could both chat about the migratory birds; Miner talking about the patterns and his sanctuary, while George can talk about how he helped save the birds being killed with the help of the laws. - Mallory Jagger

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May Boeve is apart of a campaign that fights against climate change, she is the executive director. It is called 350.org. May Boeve is not afraid to speak her mind or take action against issues she believes in because of this she has been arrested in front of the white house and has openly spoken about sexism. Not only is she an environmentalist she is a powerful activist. I think May Boeve and Naomi Klein would be a perfect match.

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Chris Jordan, born 1963, is a former American lawyer, now turned artist and photographer. Many of Chris' pieces are to show us that we are slowly killing our planet, even going as far as calling his work a "slow motion apocalypse". Chris often uses common items in his work to show how unaware we are of our own consumption and it's affects.

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Jane Goodall is most well known for her study of wild chimpanzees in the 1920's at Gombe Stream National Park. Today, she is still alive and has an institution that is protecting our wildlife and the gorillas. She funds wildlife research and conservation projects internationally. I have had the pleasure of going to see Jane Goodall speak in Toronto, and she is an incredible woman. Her experiences are once in a lifetime and she continues to be an advocate for the protection and conservation of our precious wildlife.

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Berta Cáceres is a Lenca woman from Honduras. The Lenca people are Indigenous people to Southwestern Honduras and eastern El Salvador. In 1993, Cáceres founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) to raise awareness and fight for Lenca rights. The issues she wanted to solve included illegal logging, territorial rights, and improved life for these people. She fought against the government and industries, leading protests and assemblies for proper rights. Her campaigns drew attention from the Inter-American Human Rights Commission, but that did not change the minds of the National Government and local politicians. Her fight for the environmental and indigenous rights in Honduras, especially with her work in the Gualcarque River and the surrounding dams, has inspired many people to continue her work. Cáceres studied Education and graduated university with a teaching qualification. She worked in Honduras as a midwife, activist and teacher. Her most well-known project would also prove to be her most dangerous one. The Agua Zarca dam had been proposed and approved to be built on the Gualcarque River, which was a spiritual place for the Lenca people, and was also a vital source of food and water for them. By protesting against this build, alongside other activists and Lenca people, they prevented the dam from being built. Soon after the dam was stopped, Cáceres began receiving death threats, until in 2016 she was murdered. Honduras is the most dangerous place in the world for environmental activists, as 120 have been murdered since 2010, including Berta Cáceres. For her essential part in Lenca and Environmental rights, Cáceres received many awards. These awards included; the Shalom Award by the Society for Justice and Peace at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (in 2012); the Goldman Environmental Prize (in 2015); and was nominated for the Front Line Defenders Prize (in 2014).

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Phil Radford is a American Environmentalist who is currently the executive director of Greenpeace. Greenpeace is an organization that believes the world can change our actions so that both a green world and a peaceful world can be achieved.

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Jaarrett McGahey - Much like Maurice Strong, Robin Murray searched for ways to reduce waste of materials. Maurice Strong did this when he was working with Molten Metal Technology. He was trying to reduce and recycle the amount of hazardous waste being produced. Robin Murray has written several books about his stand point on the recycling of objects and how they should be re-used instead. Robin Murray sees a world where there is no waste where a product can be used indefinitely. He proposes that companies do a complete overhaul of their products and begin to design them to last.

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Julia Lorraine "Butterfly" Hill - Jessalyn Shein

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Julia Lorraine "Butterfly" Hill - Jessalyn Shein

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Julia Lorraine is an American environmental activist and tax redirection advocate. She is well known for living in a 1500 year old California Redwood for 738 days, 1997-1999, to prevent a logging company from cutting it down. She is also co-founder of the Circle of Life Foundation, which helps organize multiple environmental awareness projects.

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Dian Fossey was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups for almost 2 decades. During her time in Rwanda, she actively supported conservation efforts, strongly opposed poaching and tourism in wildlife habitats, and made more people acknowledge sapient gorillas.

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Rachel Louise Carson an American Marine biologist, author and conservationist, began her career as an aquatic biologist. She later became a full-time nature writer in the 1950's. She received a national book award for her book, The Sea Around Us. In the late 1950's she changed directions and became more focused on conversation and shared her opinions on synthetic pesticides and what damage they were causing.

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David Attenborough is an English naturalist known especially for his work on environmental and nature documentaries. He has worked as a writer and broadcaster for the BBC for many different programs, and helped to change how wildlife is filmed by observing it in the natural habitat as opposed to in a studio. He went to the University of Cambridge to study Natural Sciences, but also has many honorary degrees from various British universities.

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Leonardo DiCaprio is  successful American Hollywood actor and environmentalist  born on November 11th,1974. He is most known for his role in Titanic, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Revenant - for which he recently won an Oscar after a long wait. He's also won an Academy Award for Best Actor. He has been criticized for taking private jets to win an environmental award and has been urged to step down from his UN climate change role due to a corruption scandal. He did attend high school, but dropped out in his third year, eventually earning his GED. He would be talked about most likely in unit 3.

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James Cameron is a successful film-maker, deep-sea explorer and philanthropist from Ontario. His first big hit came from "The Terminator," after which many hits followed like Titanic which broke world records and earned 11 Academy Award, and Avatar. Because of his love of the environment and cinematography, he has tried to make his production company green (solar panels, using solar energy) He has also made a documentary underwater further exploring the Titanic shipwreck.

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She is an indigenous American who is also involved in political, social and environmental activism. She is matched with Matthew Coon Come because they both use politics as a platform to advocate to protect sacred water systems, through an indigenous lens.

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Bennett was born in 1966 in Australia. She lived in Thailand for 4 years, as part of Australian Volunteers International. She is a journalist, and settled in the UK in 1999. There she wrote for The Guardian. She joined the Green Party of England and Wales in 2006, and eventually became the leader of the party in 2012. Bennett is a feminist and environmentalist. She had 2 terms as party leader before not standing for re-election in 2016.

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It should not be a crime to belong to an organisation such as Islamic State or al-Qaeda, the leader of the Green party Natalie Bennett has said, because people should not be punished for what they think.

But Ms Bennett insisted that people who incite or support acts of violence "should be pursued to the full extent of the law", when speaking on BBC1's Sunday Politics show.

Green party policy states that "it should not be a crime simply to belong to an organisation or have sympathy with its aims, though it should be a crime to aid and abet criminal acts or deliberately fund such acts".

MS Bennett was challenged about the policy on the show and asked whether the party would make it legal for people living in Britain to join brutal terrorist groups such as Islamic State (also known as Isis).

UK terrorism laws currently state that belonging to any of the identified terrorist organisations, such as al-Qaeda or Isis or the IRA, or appearing to support them, is illegal.

Defending Green party policy, Ms Bennett said: "What we want to do is make sure we are not punishing people for what they think or what they believe.

"Obviously actions of inciting violence, supporting violence, those are absolutely unacceptable, illegal and should be pursued to the full extent of the law."

She added: "What we are talking about is a principle that you shouldn't be punished for what you think. And we need to balance, we do not protect freedom by destroying it."

Ms Bennett said it was important for the Government to defend free speech, adding that legislation which makes people's memberships of specific organisations was outdated.

"This is part of our policy that I think dates back to the age of the ANC and apartheid South Africa," she said.

Ms Bennett's comments follow her strong stance on the abolition of the monarchy, and her views that the Queen should be evicted from Buckingham Palace and moved into a council house - while the party would build more social housing for people in the UK.

Ms Bennett, who said she will represent her party in two televised leaders debates under the proposals set out by broadcasters, also said the Green party would reshape the military to create a smaller home defence force and progressively ease immigration controls while on the show.
Additional reporting by PA
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It should not be a crime to belong to an organisation such as Islamic State or al-Qaeda, the leader of the Green party Natalie Bennett has said, because people should not be punished for what they think.

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Scott Kelly is an American Astronaut/Environmentalist. Born in 1964, Kelly is a retired engineer, astronaut and US Navy Captain. Similar to Bondar, he has also worked as an emergency medical technician.  After returning from space from a year-long mission, Kelly had a new view on the Earth. Like Bondar, he was stunned by the beauty of the planet and felt an urge to protect it. Also like Bondar, he took many pictures of Earth from the ISS. He says, "The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us." After spending a year in space, he considers himself to be an environmentalist after gaining lots of perspective.

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Studies hydrology, which is the study of water. Also studies the use of water on land and the concentration of salt in water in farming.

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Award winning American sci-fi author & fantasy who tends to write near-future books with bio-punk and environmental themes, such as  'Windup girl', 'Drowned Cities' and 'Ship Breaker' .

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Award winning Canadian fiction author who wrote  environmental dystopian books like 'Oryx and Crake' and 'The Year of the Flood'

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Tzeporah Berman is a Canadian Environmental Activist who is well known for organizing blockades against logging temperate rain forest in BC. She has worked with Greenpeace and a number of campaigns that protect forested areas all over Canada. As well she is an adviser on clean energy and the many issues facing it today. Known as "Canada's Queen of Green".

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Robert Bateman is a famous Canadian painter born 1930 in Toronto, Canada. His focus on painting is with nature, ever since a boy, fascinated by it, and remains that day today. He attended Victoria College in the University of Toronto for geography and afterward the Ontario College of Education. Robert then traveled the world for 14 months, then eventually became a teacher for art and geography. Robert was never recognised for his work until the 1970s and 80s. He accomplished many amazing achievements like, in 1987 Robert drew the largest crowd for a living artist during his show in DC. He also holds the honour of having, not one, not two, but three Canadian schools named after him. Signed limited edition prints were then made of Robert's paintings and he ended up raising millions of dollars for environmental causes.

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Grand Chief of the James Bay Cree Nation of liyuuschee. He has been actively involved in politics, advocating for 'Aboriginal self-determination' and defending fundamental rights for indigenous people globally. A notable achievement was opposing the Quebec government's James Bay hydroelectric project.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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David Suzuki a Japaneses Canadian that during WW2 his family and him were put into interment camps by the government because of racism and bigotry by the government. While in the camps he never fit in with the other Japaneses Canadians as he was not bilingual as a result he spent time in the woods leading to his love of the environment. He has since been an environmental activist with his creation of the David Suzuki Foundation which has been able

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Scientist, conservationist, educator for over four decades Dr. Biruté Galdikas has studied and worked closely with the orangutangs of Indonesian Borneo in their natural habitat, and is today the world’s foremost authority on the orangutang.

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Bill Mason was a filmmaker and author (among other things) that was known for his environment/nature conservationist views. He worked on documentaries and films, with canoeing and wolves being his two main focuses. He spent time in the wild researching and filming wolves in order to learn about their life cycles and show how they help to balance nature.