Janet Eaton

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Janet's diverse experience as a biologist, community and adult educator, as a well-known critic of globalization and free trade, and as a part time academic who has taught courses on globalization; community political power; and environment and sustainable society, provides a comprehensive background for her new role as volunteer trade and environment campaigner for Sierra Club Canada. She has also been a volunteer with SCC for ten years as a founding member of Sierra Club Canada Atlantic Chapter, working as an international liaison for SCC on Water Privatization and Corporate accountability issues, and working in the Atlantic region on free trade issues where she represents SCC on the Nova Scotia Trading Options coalition. Nationally she is SCC rep on Common Frontiers a forum for national groups that work throughout the Americas on free trade and economic alternatives and she represents SCC on the Steering Committee of a new coalition of multiple national groups that have recently come together to expose concerns with CETA, the Canada -EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement which threatens to pry open pubic procurement and public services at the provincial and municipal levels and further weaken environmental legislation. She looks forward to working with Club members on campaigns related to free trade, globalization and economic alternatives that will move us toward more sustainable communities, a more sustainable Canada and a more stable planetary system. Janet has a BSc in Biology from Acadia University and a PhD in Marine Biology from Dalhousie University, Halifax. She attributes her background in Biology, and her later involvement with the International Systems Institute as major influences in the development of her systemic worldview which helps her to better envision possibilities for whole system change. She believes that global climate change, the end of peak oil, the global financial crisis, the failures of the global free market economy and the near collapse of so many ecosystems as imperatives that must be addressed without delay and which, because of their complex nature, will demand systemic thinking and new approaches to problem solving beyond the limitations of industrial -era mechanistic quick fix thinking.

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