Neil St-Denis

Toronto, Canada Area Canada

Environmental Officer at Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change

CleanTech / Environment

As a boy I was always outside for hours on end enjoying everything that the natural world could offer me. I thought everything was interesting: bugs, rocks, weather etc. Having access to a forest and a river in the back of our property certainly did not hurt. I have always had a healthy understanding of the environment and the symbiotic relationship we have with it and I have always cared for the earth’s well-being. Even while I lived in the city after high school, I was environmentally conscious. Then there came a point several years ago where I became concerned and began to think, “I need to channel that wonder, enthusiasm and concern for the environment I had when I was a child and do ...