2013 Community Stewardship Award - Other Nominees

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Sustaining the Islands – Community Stewardship Awards Program 
 
 
 
2013   Nominee Profile 
 
Dr. Peter Carter and Julie Johnston, North Pender Island 
 
Category:  Individual 
 
Project:       Climate change education and leadership 
 
Nominator(s):      Amanda Griesbach 
 
Letters of Support:  N/A 
 
Project Description:  
Dr. Peter Carter and Julie Johnston are a couple who are dedicated to educating others 
about sustainability issues and climate change.  Peter healed the people on Pender 
when he was the family doctor, and now he tries to heal the planet. He has been 
studying and synthesizing the global warming and climate change research for over 20 
years, and presents on climate change and health and food security issues locally and 
at conferences around the world. 
 
Recently, Dr. Carter founded the Climate Emergency Institute and he is the lead physician 
with Climate Change Emergency Medical Response. Peter is a founding member of AMEG: 
Arctic Methane Emergency Group and has corresponded with world leaders and top climate 
scientists about the climate change emergency, the Arctic methane time bomb, and threats 
to global and regional food security.  
 
Julie is the resource teacher for Pender School's Spring Leaves Family Learning program 
and is a sustainability education consultant with GreenHeart Education who has consulted 
with teachers around the world on environmental education, with a focus on climate change 
education for learners of all ages 
 
Julie Johnston has taught about sustainability issues and climate change to many teachers 
both locally and regionally at conferences and workshops. As a nature educator, Julie has 
touched the lives of many children and parents on North and South Pender Islands as the 
leader of the Gulf Islands Centre for Ecological Learning’s Nature and Garden camps in the 
summer, and co-leader of Ptarmigan Music and Theatre Society’s Art and Nature Program. 
Julie has also started a garden at the local elementary school for students to learn about 
gardening and food.  
 

Sustaining the Islands – Community Stewardship Awards Program 
 
 
 
2013   Nominee Profile 
 
Mike Hoebel, Galiano Island 
 
 
Category:  Individual 
 
Project:       Bird monitoring programs on Galiano Island  
 
Nominator(s):      Keith Erickson 
 
Letters of Support:  N/A 
 
Project Description:  
For more than 20 years, Mike Hoebel has worked tirelessly to monitor bird populations 
and maintain bird observation data on Galiano Island. He coordinates annual Christmas 
bird counts, organizes hummingbird monitoring over the spring and summer months and 
leads annual spring bird walks. He also works with the Mayne Island Conservancy 
Society and the Galiano Conservancy Association as a steward for the Active Pass 
Important Bird Area.  Mike's work has helped to provide an information baseline for bird 
populations on Galiano and ongoing annual inventories of various bird species. 
 
Mike acts as a liaison between local bird

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