18 Facts About Tzeporah Berman

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

In 2009, 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 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 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.

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