Steven Guilbeault is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 science reporter, environmental reporter, environmental journalist, writer, consultant, venture capitalist, professional speaker, NGO founder and environmental

Environmentalism

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 activist. He is best known as the co-founder of Équiterre

Équiterre

Based in Montreal , Équiterre is a non-profit and non-governmental organization. Équiterre's mission is to contribute to the construction of a citizens' movement by advocating individual and collective choices that are both ecologically and socially fair...

, a non-profit and non-governmental organization.

He is presently a columnist for many publications, among them, Métro

Metro International

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and Transcontinental Media. He has also been columnist for Radio-Canada, CHMP-FM

CHMP-FM

CHMP-FM is a French language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. Owned and operated by Cogeco, it broadcasts on 98.5 MHz with an effective radiated power of 40,800 watts using an omnidirectional antenna....

, the magazine Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights

Corporate Knights is a quarterly Canadian magazine dedicated to the promotion of responsible business practices within Canada and the advancement of social and environmental sustainability worldwide....

, as well as newspapers La Presse and Voir

Voir

Voir is a chain of francophone alternative weekly newspapers in the Canadian province of Quebec published by Communications Voir.The magazine was founded by Pierre Paquet in November 1986.-Editions:The newspaper publishes separate local editions in:...

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He is a member of Cycle Capital Management's steering committee and was a consultant for the Deloitte & Touche Firm. Guilbeault has participated in most international United Nations

United Nations

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 conventions on climate change.

Biography

At age six, Guilbeault, with the approval of his mother, occupied a tree behind his home to prevent it from being cut down by a real estate

Real estate

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 promoter.

He later studied political science

Political science

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 and theology

Theology

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 at Université de Montréal

Université de Montréal

The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 for a short period of time (no diploma), where he was president of the political science student association and participated in activities related to the Canadian Human Rights Commission

Canadian Human Rights Commission

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In 1994 he co-founded Équiterre, a non-profit and non-governmental organization, with the help of Sidney Ribaux, Laure Waridel et François Meloche. In 1997 he joined Greenpeace

Greenpeace

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 where he was a member of the Canadian delegation and Quebec spokesperson, until June 8, 2007. He was in charge of the climate change initiative and research of this organization.

He was the president of the Quebec Coalition for Climate Change. He was the vice-president of the Conseil régional de l'environnement de Montréal. He also gave conferences on the environment across Canada. In 2005 he participated in a Greenland

Greenland

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expedition where he claims to have witnessed the effects of arctic ice melting.

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