Paul George, is a Canadian
environmentalist
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living in
Gibsons
Gibsons is a coastal community of 4,758 in southwestern British Columbia, Canada on the Sunshine Coast (British Columbia), Sunshine Coast, where the southwest bank of Howe Sound meets the Strait of Georgia.
During its early history as a Europe ...
, British Columbia. He is married to
Adriane Carr, former leader of the
Green Party of British Columbia
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, for which he ran in 1991, receiving 0.82% of the popular vote in the riding of Surrey-Newton.
In the late 1960s, after leaving the United States, Paul George lived and worked on Vancouver Island as a teacher, builder, and lead science teacher for the British Columbia provincial correspondence school program.
He cofounded the
Western Canada Wilderness Committee, and founded ActionInTime, a society for public education about global climate change.
In 1999 he was the first recipient of the BC Spaces for Nature Wild Earth Award.
In 2006, he authored ''Big Trees, Not Big Stumps'', a history of the Western Canada Wilderness Committee.
In 2020, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia.
References
External links
BC Spaces for Nature Wild Earth Award: Paul GeorgeABCBookWorld: George, PaulWestern Canada Wilderness Committee
Canadian environmentalists
Members of the Order of British Columbia
Living people
People from Gibsons, British Columbia
Year of birth missing (living people)
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