Kathryn Holloway - NGO Work

NGO Work

Since 2004 she has been Executive Director of Element Village, a non-governmental organization dedicated to the stimulation, funding and support of sustainable urban cooperative and community projects. Element Village is funded by the Canadian Cooperatives Secretariat and the Toronto Atmospheric Fund.

In 2005 she participated with the Civic Efficiency Group on a submission on infrastructural capital to Canadian Finance Minister Ralph Goodale's 2005 Green Budget Coalition, advocating more sustainable, modular, green urban planning.

She is a past delegate to the United Nations Environment Programme Sustainable Energy Finance Roundtable in New York, and is a past NGO observer to the 2005 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Montreal. There, she successfully lobbied to ensure that the World Mayors and Municipal Leaders Declaration on Climate Change would include wording protecting women, youth and communities. She argued for inclusion in the Declaration of

• calls for reform in how the IMF and the World Bank measure productivity
• endorsement of the carbon dioxide emissions reduction targets set by the 2005 International Youth Declaration
• increased partnership between municipalities and NGOs and community organizations

She is a founding member of BALLE Canada, and was profiled in the 2007 peak oil documentary Escape From Suburbia as an urban sustainability activist. She also participates with the Toronto City Summit Alliance on the Green Best Practices and Indicators working group.