Laure waridel biography

Laure Waridel, CM (born January 10, 1973) is a social activist, a writer, a professor of environment at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a radio and.
Laure Waridel, CM is a social activist, a writer, a professor of environment at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a radio and TV commentator.
Laure Waridel, CM, CQ, social activist, author, environmentalist, lecturer and columnist (born 10 January 1973 in Chesalles-sur-Oron, Switzerland).

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Laure Waridel

Laure Waridel, CM (born January 10, 1973) is a social activist, a writer, a professor of environment at the Université du Québec à Montréal, and a radio and TV commentator.^[1]

Early years

Laure Waridel was born in Switzerland, in the village of Chesalles-sur-Oron just north of Lake Geneva in the Canton of Vaud. She has three sisters and a brother. When she was two, their new home was a dairy farm in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec, in the Montérégie region. It was not long before Laure became aware of the shift towards industrial farming methods and the vulnerability of farm producers. As a young girl, she worked at the Cadet Roussel organic farm in Mont-Saint-Grégoire, Quebec. She lives in Montreal and is the mother of two children, Colin and Alphée; Alphée was the subject of a 2012 documentary film, Alphée of the Stars (Alphée des étoiles), by her father and Waridel's then-spouse Hugo Latulippe.^[1] Waridel is now married to Bruce Johnston.^[1]

Education

From 1990 to 1992, Waridel studied social sciences at the Cég

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Laure Waridel’s devotion to social engagement started at a very young age. She has been a driving force for large-scale ecological programs and sustainable development initiatives. She holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, where she focused her research on the emergence of a socio-ecological economy in Québec.

In 1997, Laure Waridel, then 24, published her first essay, entitled Une cause café, where she presented the results of her research on a Mexican coffee cooperative undertaken in her graduating year at McGill University. She gained widespread media attention for the work, enabling her to successfully profile the principal of fair trade in Quebec, when it was barely known elsewhere in North America.

In 1993, she co-founded Équiterre. Aware that individual and collective decisions lead to real chan

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Laure is not only a pioneer of fair trade and sustainable consumption. Since 1993, when she co-founded Équiterre, the researcher and associate professor has mobilized Quebeckers to face environmental and social challenges through her publications, public speaking and media interventions. Author of three books, including two best sellers (L’Envers de l’assiette and Acheter c’est voter), her fourth, soon to be published, explores the emergence of a socially and environmentally responsible economy and should give a boost to the ecological transition of Quebec. Laure would never admit it, but she is probably one of the most respected people in the province: her resume reads like a repertoire of Canadian scholarships and honors.

PhD in anthropology and sociology of development, she explains in these words why she agreed to become our special advisor: “Law is an extraordinary tool for changing the world but it remains underutilized in Quebec. I was attracted by the fact that TJL acts pro bono on a number of public interest cases, like the one in which the