About Us

The Founder of I-SEA

Margery Moore spent many wonderful summers as a young girl on Salt Spring Island, after her family moved there from Ontario in the early 1980s. She relocated permanently to Salt Spring Island at age 18 with her mother to work and live on the island between semesters at the University of Victoria, where she received her B.Sc. in Natural Resource Management, and later her Masters in Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS). After receiving her Masters in 1999, Margery pursued her environmental career in the United States. After seven years, once again she calls Salt Spring home,now with a vision to continue her environmental work through the Salt Spring Institute for Sustainability Education & Action (I-SEA), of which she is President. While building I-SEA, she is also consulting with several organizations internationally on environmental information management research design and development. As President of I-SEA, Margery has facilitated sustainable tourism workshops and is developing a sustainability data inventory for the Salt Spring Official Community Plan (OCP) process.

Margery thanks I-SEA’s 3 current (and co-founding) Board members, Marion Pape of the Earth Festival Society, Peter Allan of the Chamber of Commerce (both of whom are I-SEA co-Vice Presidents), and Patti Speed of Royal Lepage Realty, all of Salt Spring Island, for their dedication, vision, and support. Other members of the Gulf Islands sustainability community are welcome to join us in any of several capacities by e-mailing us at sustain@saltspring.com or call 250-537-4101 (I-SEA, #23 - 133 Corbett Road, Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K 2W6 Canada).