23 Facts About Tzeporah Berman

Tzeporah Berman was born on 5 February 1969 and is a Canadian environmental activist, campaigner and writer.

In 2009, Tzeporah Berman served on British Columbia's Green Energy Task Force.

Tzeporah Berman was one of the experts in the environmental documentary The 11th Hour, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

Tzeporah Berman was named as one of six Canadian nominees for the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship social entrepreneur of the year award, one of "50 Visionaries Changing the World" in Utne Reader and as "Canada's Queen of Green" in a cover story by Reader's Digest.

Tzeporah Berman was listed of one of the 35 Most Influential Women in British Columbia by BC Business Magazine and awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Law from University of British Columbia.

Tzeporah Berman is one of the primary negotiators and architects of the Great Bear Rainforest campaign in Canada that led to the permanent protection of 6 million hectares of old growth rainforest in 2006.

Tzeporah Berman is an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, at York University in Toronto.

Tzeporah Berman grew up in London, Ontario, the third of four siblings in a middle-class Jewish family.

Tzeporah Berman's father owned a small advertising company and her mother had a business that made promotional flags and pennants.

Tzeporah Berman's father died when Berman was in her early teens and her mother died two years later.

In 2013 Tzeporah Berman was awarded a Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of British Columbia in recognition of her work to strengthen environmental laws and policy in British Columbia, Canada.

In 1992, Tzeporah Berman travelled to the Carmanah Valley on Vancouver Island to do fieldwork on threatened seabirds.

Tzeporah Berman joined with Valerie Langer and members of Friends of Clayoquot Sound in the growing Clayoquot protests.

Tzeporah Berman came to national and international attention as one of the spokespersons for the protests, which employed nonviolent civil disobedience tactics taught in a series of peace camps in Tofino and in high-profile locations such as Stanley Park in Vancouver.

Tzeporah Berman played a key role in the negotiations between MacMillan Bloedel, the activists and local First Nations.

In 2000, Tzeporah Berman co-founded ForestEthics, a group devoted to using tactics that would convince companies to change their ways or risk loss of sales.

Tzeporah Berman had been printing a million copies per day of its glossy catalogues using paper from old-growth timber.

In 2007, Tzeporah Berman was one of the experts in Leonardo Di Caprio's environmental documentary 11th Hour, was one of six Canadian nominees for the Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and was profiled as one of 50 Visionaries Changing the World in Utne Reader and as "Canada's Queen of Green" in the cover story for Readers Digest.

Tzeporah Berman was appointed by the Premier of British Columbia to the Green Energy Task Force to design recommendations for the development of renewable energy in the region in 2009.

In 2012, Tzeporah Berman moved back to Canada and began consulting with philanthropic foundations, environmental organizations and First Nations on climate and energy policy and to design campaigns on oil sands and pipelines.

Tzeporah Berman was appointed by the British Columbia Government to the Climate Leadership Team to make recommendations on climate policy in British Columbia in 2015.

In 2021, Tzeporah Berman was arrested for blockading the logging of thousand year olds trees in Fairy Creek on Vancouver Island.

Currently, Tzeporah Berman serves as a member of the Advisory Group for the Carbon Majors Project of InfluenceMap, an independent think tank producing date-driven analysis on how business and finance are impacting the climate crisis.