Ecological Integrity
Experience
Following university and initial employment in
sales and marketing, Andrew McCammon has worked in the environment
for twenty years, during which time he coordinated and/or facilitated
about 200 environmental projects or events and has been the
chief author/editor of about 200 environmental publications,
reports, or submissions to agencies. Training and past experience
includes:
Academic
and Training Credentials
- MA, Canadian History, University of Guelph
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Not-for Profit Organizational Management, Bishops
University
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Executive Development Course, Management Institute,
McGill
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Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Managers,
Mgmt In, McGill
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Special Event Management, ISES, Toronto Chapter
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Train-the-Trainer Training, WRITAR, Minneapolis
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Group Facilitation, Institute of Cultural Affairs,
Toronto
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Various courses in project management, policy
development & analysis, and supervisory responsibilities
Consulting
Principle of Thousand Small Steps, 1990–1998, and Project
Management for the Environment, 2001-2004. Each were closed in order
to pursue opportunities in agencies.
Key accomplishments include:
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Staging a two-day Enviro-Fair at the Ontario
Science Centre, with tables from over 50 organizations and attendance
of over 7,000 people
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Coordinating Canadian participation in a Pollution
Prevention Symposium at a biennial meeting of the International
Joint Commission, securing the participation of over 100 Canadians
involved in business and community actions in P2
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Providing marketing and training services to
the Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Center, with specific responsibility
for outreach to municipalities and small & medium-sized
enterprises
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Serving as the Editor of Ontario’s Green
Cleaner’s Manual
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Facilitating the founding meeting of the City
of Toronto’s Clean Air Partnership, then securing funding
for and managing two projects for the Partnership
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Revitalizing a local advisory committee, leading
to the construction Ontario’s largest artificial deciduous
swamp and 900 metres of streamside trail
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Facilitated a provincial discussion on air quality
and climate change for the Clean Air Foundation
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Synthesizing preliminary text and survey responses
into two papers for Pollution Probe
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Environment Canada: Several contracts supporting
early efforts under the Green Plan
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Toronto and Region Conservation Authority: two
years as a consultant to and 4 years as a staff Environmental
Coordinator
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City of Vaughan: Short tenure as the Environmental
Coordinator before the position was abolished, but during which
Andrew facilitated the creation of three green teams and a GTA
environmental coordinators’ network, and
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Ontario Ministry of the Environment: 1.5 year
contract with the Air Policy and Climate Change Branch
- Publicity and Community Development Coordinator, l’Association
des Anglophones de l’Estrie, Sherbrooke, Quebec
- Coordinator, The Decision Decade, Great Lakes Tomorrow and the
Conservation Council of Ontario
- Founding Chair, The Environmental Forum
- Secretary, Conservation Council of Ontario
- Member, Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO 14000
- President, Friends of the Don East
- Founding Chair, The Taylor Massey Project (www.theTMP.org),
and
- Executive Director, the Ontario Headwaters Institute, 2008–present
(www.OHWI.ca)
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