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Feb 05, 1969 London, Ontario, Canada 55 years old
Canadian activist
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About Tzeporah Berman
- Tzeporah Berman (born February 5, 1969) is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer.
- She is known for her role as one of the organizers of the logging blockades in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia in 1992–93.
- The protest against the logging of the temperate rainforest was, at the time, the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history.
- Working with Greenpeace, Berman has helped bring the clearcut logging of Canada's rainforest to international prominence.
- She has worked on the Great Bear Rainforest campaign, and the Boreal campaign.
- She is a strategic advisor on clean energy, oil sands and pipelines for many environmental, First Nations and philanthropic organizations.
- She has been co-director of Greenpeace International's Global Climate and Energy Program, Executive Director and Co-founder of PowerUp Canada and Co-founder and Campaign Director of ForestEthics and is currently the International Program Director for Stand.earth, formerly ForestEthics. In 2009, Berman served on British Columbia’s Green Energy Task Force.
- The task force, appointed by Premier Gordon Campbell, was charged with making recommendations on the development of renewable energy for the province.
- Berman was one of the experts in the environmental documentary The 11th Hour, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
- She was named as one of six Canadian nominees for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship social entrepreneur of the year award, one of "50 Visionaries Changing the World" in Utne Reader and as "Canada's Queen of Green" in a cover story by Readers Digest.
- She was included in the Royal British Columbia Museum permanent exhibit of “150 people who have changed the face of British Columbia.” In 2015 Berman served on the British Columbia Governments Climate Leadership Team and was appointed in 2016 to serve on the Alberta Governments Oil Sands Advisory Group as Co-Chair.
- Berman was listed of one of the 35 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from University of British Columbia.
