Naomi Devine, Community Sustainability Planner

Naomi is a climate change and sustainability policy advisor who is responsible for overseeing the Whistler2020 community process and working on Whistler’s Official Community Plan review.

Naomi joined the centre after working as the Sustainability Coordinator for the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) where she worked on the creation of the Carbon Neutral Operations Plan, and created the Climate Action Innovation Fund, which directs carbon tax money into commercial and municipal emissions reductions projects. Prior to this, Naomi worked in the University of Victoria’s office of Campus Planning and Sustainability, creating the university's first sustainability policy and action plan.

In November 2007, Naomi was appointed to British Columbia's Climate Action Team, which offers the Government’s Cabinet Committee on Climate Action policy advice on measures to achieve its legislated greenhouse gas reductions of 33% below 2007 levels by 2020, as well as setting interim targets for 2012 and 2016. She is a co-founder of Common Energy at the University of Victoria, an organization that works to move organizations 'beyond climate-neutral' and is a co-author of the report: Building on Progress: A Plan to move the University of Victoria Beyond Climate-Neutral. Naomi has also served as Vice-Chair of the City of Victoria's Environment and Shoreline Advisory Committee and is currently a Director with the BC Sustainable Energy Association.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Gandhi