Stephen Salter PEng LEED AP® is the President of Farallon. Stephen graduated from the University of British Columbia with a BASc in Mechanical Engineering in 1982, and from the United World College of the Atlantic with an International Baccalaureate in 1976. Stephen is a Registered Professional Engineer and a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of BC, a member of the BC Hydro BC Hydro Alliance of Energy Professionals, and a LEED® Accredited Professional.
Before launching Farallon Consultants Limited in 1991, Stephen held engineering and management positions with Babcock and Wilcox (manufacturer of fossil-fired and nuclear power boilers), Microtel (a satellite communications division of TELUS), and Kruger.
Stephen has visited and written about sustainable energy and water installations in Sweden, Brazil, Chile, India, and across Canada and the United States to interview owners and operators of these facilities to understand their actual costs and benefits. This research has uncovered the “cutting-edge common sense” strategies used by leading communities such as Kristianstad and Curitiba to develop infrastructure that is economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable. Stephen has also presented workshops and lectures on sustainability at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Pearson College, the BC Sustainable Energy Association, and the Fraser Basin Council.
Stephen Salter refueling his rental car with biomethane from sewage in Kristianstad, Sweden: “power from the people.”
Stephen has served on the Board of Directors of the Cascadia Green Building Council, Vancouver Island Branch, and on the Canadian Selection Committee for the United World Colleges, based at Pearson College in Victoria. Stephen has served as a volunteer for over two thousand hours on behalf of environmental non-governmental organizations, including the Georgia Strait Alliance, the TBuck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, Ecojustice Canada, and the Environmental Safety Group in Gibraltar. The work has involved finding and promoting options for recovering renewable energy from wastewater and municipal solid waste, as a means of reducing pollution and greenhouse gas emissions from cities. Stephen has also served as a volunteer designing and building adaptive devices for the Tetra Society of North America, and as a coach and judge with Odyssey of the Mind. Stephen has also presented workshops and lectures on sustainability at the University of Victoria, Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, Pearson College, the BC Sustainable Energy Association, and the Fraser Basin Council.
Born in Angola, Dr. Fernanda Oliveira practiced dentistry in Brazil and Canada before becoming a management consulting with a focus on change management, organizational development, capacity building, stakeholder consultation and engagement, mediation, and negotiation.
Fernanda’s strengths include engaging people to develop agreements that enable projects to become successful in the long term; uncovering the things that are important to all stakeholders through active listening; appreciating differences among individuals and mediating among apparently conflicting interests; communication; coaching; strategic thinking; problem solving; and an ability to systematically investigate the root causes of issues. Fernanda applies these skills at the beginning of projects to help clients and stakeholders identify their interests (for example, their aspirations and fears) regarding the outcome of the project. This process brings clarity regarding the true goals of the project to all stakeholders, and significantly increases the likelihood of the project’s success.
Fernanda is certified in Advanced Facilitation and Consultation, Negotiation, and Mediation through the Justice Institute of BC, and is fluent in written and spoken English, Portuguese, and Spanish.
“Somewhere, something incredible is wating to be discovered.” Carl Sagan