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Bio
Angela Reid is the President and CEO of Tigress Ventures Inc., a company whose partnerships and projects focus on renewable energy and the comprehensive integration of sustainability principles in business. She is also the Vice President of BioStreet Canada Inc., a biodiesel company. Angela has lived in Kelowna with her family for nearly 20 years, primarily living on orchards and farms, and has always been active in the community. |
She currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Okanagan Environmental Industry Alliance, is active as a member of the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce Sustainability Committee, and is on the Steering Committee for the Coalition for a Genetically Engineered (GE) Free BC. She has also served on the Board for the Kelowna Community Theatre and the H.O.S.O.T.O House Society, a program that worked with the homeless.
Politically, Angela shows her true colors, and at age 30, has run in two provincial and two federal elections, is currently a Deputy Leader for the Green Party of BC, has served for three years on the Green Party of Canada Federal Council, and as CEO of the Kelowna Federal Green Party.
In March 2008, Angela was one of 250 Canadians trained by Nobel Laureate and Former US Vice President Al Gore, to present the Climate Project, an updated version of the original slideshow from “An Inconvenient Truth.”
When she’s not busy trying to help save the world, Angela loves to camp, hike, mountain bike, snowboard and snowshoe. She bikes the 20km round-trip to work 2-4 days per week when the snow’s not flying, loves to sing and play guitar, and is in a committed relationship with the man of her dreams.
While the Green Party platform provides a broad range of solutions for challenges ranging from early childhood education to better health care for seniors, and from poverty to foreign policy, Angela has focused three key sustainability solutions that will support Kelowna-Lake Country:
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Create a resilient, low-carbon, local economy and green-collar jobs by investing in renewable energy, thereby improving our global competitiveness and efficiency. Support the family farm and encourage production and consumption of Canadian agricultural products, especially organically grown.
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Give 1% of GST revenues back to municipalities to provide consistent, reliable funding for addressing local issues such as affordable housing, homelessness, low-carbon transportation, enhanced arts and culture and infrastructure improvements.
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Aggressively address climate change by cutting GHG emissions to 30 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. A government-commissioned report shows that putting a price on carbon will be a net-benefit to Canada’s economy after 2015.