Chris is a writer and environmental campaigner. He was the Sustainable City columnist for The Coast in Halifax for a number of years, and has also authored six books (half of them true). He has worked at ENGOs in Toronto and Halifax and as a journalist at home and abroad. His work has had a strong educational and community-building components, including delivering online and in-person workshops that have varied from training aspiring writers to informing grade-school children and senior citizens about the history and ongoing legacy of residential schools. He lives in Halifax with his partner, two children and a 90-pound lapdog.