Atlantic EcoWorks is a home-based business operated by Rod Dempsey. Rod is a civil engineer with a strong interest
in community-based environmental education. He holds an advanced post-graduate certificate in Environmental Management from the
University of Toronto's Centre for Environment and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Environmental Coalition
of Prince Edward Island and the Winter River-Tracadie Bay Watershed Association.
Rod has completed Natural Resources Canada's RETScreen Training Workshop and Trainer Workshop in addition to The Natural Step's "Sustainability
- Step by Natural Step" on-line training seminar. He has fourteen years of experience working with adults at the community college
level, mostly in the areas of civil and construction technology. He has also worked as a Construction Technology Advisor
for the Natural Research Council's Industrial Research Assistance Program.
In 2004, he "went public" with his concern for the
environment when he researched and wrote a twelve-part weekly environmental awareness series "The World According to Marcus" that
was published in The Guardian newspaper.
In 2006, Rod developed and coordinated the P.E.I. Eco-Home Project - a project
funded by Environment Canada and delivered through the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island in which groups of residents
from Charlottetown and Stratford met weekly over three-month periods to increase their environmental awareness and to lessen their
environmental impact. The Project ran from September 2006 to April 2007. Subsequently, Rod developed and delivered EcoLiving
101 which was delivered (initially) through the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island.
In 2008, Rod started Atlantic
EcoWorks, and has since continued in the development and delivery of public environmental education courses and seminars.
In 2009, he coordinated another public environmental education project called "Stratford in Action," funded mostly by
Environment Canada and delivered by the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island in partnership with the Town of
Stratford. The project resulted in a community resource book featuring forty-seven stories about the carbon-reduction actions of
the residents of Stratford. To download the resource book (3.55 Mb), click here, or on the image below.
Over the last few years, Rod has had the pleasure of conducting courses, seminars, and miscellaneous presentations (through
Atlantic EcoWorks and the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island) with many groups and organizations including
the following.
EcoLiving 101
Charlottetown Senior's College
Summerside Senior's College
Residents of the Greater Charlottetown
Area
EcoLiving 101 for Busy People
City of Charlottetown Staff
Community of Eastern Kings
Veteran's Affairs Canada
EcoLiteracy
101
Holland College (12 Student Groups)
Emissions-Free Lawn Care
City of Charlottetown
Town of Stratford
33 Ways to Have a
Green Christmas Season
Charlottetown Y's Men's Club
Park Royal United Church
Stratford in Action
CGI
Residents of Stratford
Rotary
Club of Stratford
Stratford Area Watershed Improvement Group
Town of Stratford Staff
Miscellaneous Presentations
Colonel Gray
High School
(Alternative Energy, Food Choices)
Community of Victoria
(Saving Energy Around the Home)
Engineers
PEI
(Four Reasons Why It's Important to Reduce
Our Environmental Impact and Ten
Easy
Ways to Begin)
Residents of Charlottetown and Stratford
(P.E.I. Eco-Home Project)
Town
of Stratford Open House
(It's Easy Being Green)
Trout River Environmental Committee
(EcoLiving
101 Introductory Seminar)
