What Mission Statement What We Do History Looking Forward Facilities Get Involved Employment Apprentices Contribute Teach Why Who Founders Stewards Fellows Advisory Board Supporters Honorary Members Faculty Heroes Where Programs Year at a Glance Calendar By Category By Instructor Past Programs When Year at a Glance Core Curriculum Seasonal Activities Register Register in Program Login to Account Gallery People Farm Woods River Lake Facilities Events News Store On Site On Line Links Contact		From Soil to Society: Celebrating the Essential Connections Between All Living Things       FOUNDERS           Camelia Frieberg     Camelia has carried the dream of Pollination Project in an ever-evolving form for the last thirty years as she has worked as a feature film producer with some of Canada’s most well known directors (Atom Egoyan, Jeremy Podeswa, Amnon Buchbinder, Daniel MacIvor). The films she has produced have been praised by critics and audiences around the world and have received multiple awards at Cannes International Film Festival, Academy Award™ nominations, and multiple Genie Awards. Her own feature film debut as director/writer, A Stone’s Throw, www.palpable.ca, won best Atlantic Feature Film at AFF in 2006. Camelia serves on the board of BALLE-NS (Business Alliance for Local Living Economies), the newly formed Nova Scotia Food Policy Council, the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, and the South Shore Waldorf School and Kindergarten. Camelia’s eclectic interests as a filmmaker, fibre artist, naturalist and environmentalist have been woven together with her concerns for food security, social justice and community building and taken root in the form of Pollination Project.     Peter Biro       After practising law - civil and commercial litigation and employment law – for twenty years as a partner with two of Canada's leading law firms, Peter left the practice to become President and CEO of Newcon Optik, a world leader in the manufacture and supply of electro-optical equipment (www.newcon-optik.com). He obtained his B.A. (Hons) (Guelph) and M.A. (McMaster) in political science, specializing in political theory, and his LL.B and B.C.L.(McGill) in common law and civil law. Peter has lectured and published extensively on law and politics and has been a frequent commentator in the media in these fields. He is a director and Treasurer of the Global Secretariat of the Jane Goodal Institute (JGI Global) and is also a director of the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada. He served for a number of years as a Governor of the University of Haifa and as President of Canadian Friends of Haifa University. Peter has served and advised various other boards and organizations and his community work and public interest advocacy have always been informed by his civil libertarian and pluralistic values. In recent years he has come to acknowledge the inadequacy of the conventional human rights paradigm as a comprehensive framework for imagining social justice and he has come to understand that a "just society", in addition to being informed by the rule of law and by a rich conception of rights and freedoms, must also be in harmony with the natural world and that it must be driven by and be true to the ideal, if not also the ordering principle, of sustainability. . . . and that love also plays a vital and often overlooked role in the grand social enterprise!