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About Me
Andrew Sanford Founder and domain manager of the Earth Alternatives website, Andrew graduated with an B.A. Honours degree in Human Environment (Geography) and a M.Env. in Environmental Assessment from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. His interest in environmental issues, particularly biodiversity conservation, ecological economics, sustainable development, and environmental history, is the result of an unconventional path in life that has taken him to several continents and led him to hitchhike over 50,000 kilometers in North America. He has experience applying the Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards in the context of project finance transactions in the mining and infrastructure sectors and has worked internationally providing environmental and business analysis for major projects in the extractive sector. Andrew's peripheral interests include hiking, gardening, traveling, progressive politics, and trying to code HTML. The opinions on this website represent his views alone. Contact info: earthalternatives (at) gmail.com Skills: Geography: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) ISO 26000 and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Equator Principles and IFC Performance Standards interpretation of aerial photography and satellite imagery cartographic visualization environmental policy analysis quantitative statistical analysis geodemographic segmentation sustainability assessment environmental risk assessment carbon footprinting project management Software proficiency: Word Excel Access Powerpoint Outlook Illustrator HTML Geomatica IDRISI QGIS ArcGIS and associated ESRI extensions Communications: writing editing publishing French to English translation GRI and corporate social responsibility reporting |
Earth Alternatives
Environmental NewsEnvironmental Blogs:Environmental Species Act Blog Hill Heat (Science Policy Legislation Action) International Water Law Project The Permaculture Research Institute of Australia Non-governmental organizations:Arkive Globally Endangered Species
U.N. and Government links:
United NationsConvention on Biological Diversity Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Food and Agriculture Organization FAO Global Terrestrial Observing System Satellite and space agency links The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
CanadaCanadian Biodiversity Information Network Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Earth System Research Laboratory United States Geological Survey
Europe
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