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Heather Tremain

 Heather Tremain B.A. March, LEED Accredited Professional

Heather is leader who has dedicated her career to advancing sustainability issues within the built environment. Her current consulting work is focused on urban sustainability strategies related to transportation, climate change and planning issues.

She was recently awarded a Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, which recognizes leaders in design and the built environment and affords them a year of independent study. Her research explored effective climate change policy at the municipal and regional levels.

As co-founder and CEO of reSource Rethinking Building, Heather acted as the sustainability advisor on numerous local projects including: Vancouver’s first ‘green’ market housing project, the creation of ‘green’ building guidelines for the UniverCity community (a 15,000 member community under development on Burnaby Mountain), and the development of environmental strategies for the Southeast False Creek area.
Heather engaged in extensive policy and strategy work to promote the adoption of sustainable policies at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.

In addition to her consulting work she led the development of The Verdant, a green and affordable townhouse project, which pioneered an innovative approach to green building finance. Verdant has won a number of awards including the Urban Development Institute awards for Innovation in Sustainability and Innovation in Affordable Housing and a national award from CMHC for Best Practices in Affordable Housing.

Heather is the co-creator of Healthy Home, a 39-part television series that is intended to create consumer demand for healthy and sustainable buildings. The series is available in over 60 million homes around the world.In the community, Heather is a past director of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council and past President of the Board of the Tradeworks Training Society, and Co-Chair of Vancity’s Community Foundation.

In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge Massachusetts.

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Robert Brown

 Robert Brown

Robert Brown was a founder and principal of reSource Rethinking Building Inc. and founder of Chesterman Property Group Inc. He founded Chesterman in 1997 as a development company, which focused on undertaking innovative housing projects that create a strong sense of community and provide real examples of sustainable building practices. For its efforts in green building Chesterman received an Ethics in Action Award as well as a Mayor’s Environmental Achievement Award from the City of Vancouver.
Robert’s 30 plus years of real estate experience includes both a “past life” as a Chartered Surveyor in Scotland and (starting in 1988) as a commercial leasing and sales agent in BC.

In 2005, Chesterman was folded into reSource Rethinking Building to create one green building consulting and development entity. Robert’s role is as a development manager. He also leads project specific green building consulting work for many of Vancouver’s leading residential development companies. He has supported them in building their own in-house green building expertise and in finding a new way of building healthier and more resource efficient homes.

Robert is also committed to supporting the community in which he lives and works. He is a co-founder of Canadian Business for Social Responsibility and is a Past President of Tradeworks Training Society, which provides construction trades training and job placement services to youth at risk in the Downtown Eastside. He is currently Board Chair of Compassionate Eye Foundation (link to compassionateeye.org) which funds education, health and economic development projects in developing countries including Guatemala, Sierra Leone, South Africa and India.

He lives in one of the homes he developed, with his partner Nancy and their daughter Faith.


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