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| Meet the team |
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| This is newsbeet's voluntary Newsbeet production team. Without them,
beetroute wouldn't be able to produce and distribute Newsbeet. |
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| Content editor: Amanda Gomm |
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| At an early age, Amanda dedicated herself to both the environmental
movement and the arts. When most kids watched cartoons, Amanda would
plunk down on the living room floor and draw endangered/exotic species
from across the world. |
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| In high school, she became a student activist and sat on a number
of committees/boards including the Youth Environmental Network, Student
Environmental Network, and was President of the Wexford Environmental
Organization. |
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| At the age of 18, she followed her passion for conservation and
founded Smallworlds. Smallworlds is an online network established
to highlight organizations involved locally in preserving their wild
spaces and to create a global community between these wilderness conservation
groups and youth. More than 100 organizations from over 40 countries
are represented on this network. Plans for Smallworlds' growth and
additional programs are in the works. |
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| In 2005, Amanda moved to Vancouver where she became the Administrative
Assistant and Outreach Coordinator for the Pole to Pole Leadership
Institute. She recently returned to Toronto, Canada, where she is
seeking new opportunities in the green movement and looking to create
great positive change. |
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| Born & Raised: |
| Amanda was born in Toronto, Canada where she grew up loving the
multi-cultural atmosphere and small community feel, amongst the big
city backdrop. |
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| Sustainability: |
| Is so happy that she spent time getting her classic 80's Miyata
road bike back in working order and plans to live on it all summer
long! Enjoys finding great, quality, used items. At the age of 25,
is still not fully licensed to drive a car. Loves her reusable bag
that packs down to practically nothing, ensuring no plastic bags enter
her personal biosphere. However, she has sadly not been able to purchase
as much organic produce as she would like. |
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| Entertainment: |
| Is addicted to podcasts. Enjoys the company of her friends and loves
talking over good food. The theatric side of her comes out from time
to time. Amanda will dress up as a mime and entertain the local kids
with a poi show (fire dancing). Or, she will have an evening of poetic
terrorism - using a form of art or any other enlightening, non-harmful
medium to make people think about life or global issues, by just the
sheer bizarreness of the installation or performance. |
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| Education: |
| She was accepted into Wexford Collegiate School for the Arts, a
learning environment where a small number of talented young artists
spend years receiving hours of studio time in a university-like art
curriculum. |
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| Assistant editor: Angus Argyle |
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| Though English was his most difficult subject every year in elementary
and high school, he often gets asked to proofread documents by friends
and colleagues. He is always up for doing something a little out of
the ordinary and this would explain how he bumped into Jon and Aukje
and volunteers for Newsbeet... :) |
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| Born & raised: |
| Angus is a Canadian living on the country's west coast in the city
of Victoria. |
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| Be True: |
| To Angus, 'be true' means striving to be authentic - speaking and
acting based on how he truly thinks and feels - while at the same
time acknowledging the need to learn, to grow and to respect the views
of others. |
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| Sustainability: |
| In an environmental context, 'sustainability' means living lightly
on the planet to Angus; using resources at rates that do not exceed
the natural recovery or growth rates of the resources; and, producing
low amounts of waste that can be easily absorbed into the local environment. |
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| Entertainment: |
| 'Allriiiiight' is just one of Angus' funny phrases... His obsession
with food (and especially chocolate) is also pretty entertaining! |
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| Education: |
| Angus is a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria; his research
involves developing methods for estimating the total number of species
in large regions based on data from detailed surveys of small study
sites. He has lost us long ago on this subject :) |
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