#22 - Noel Keough: Sustainable Calgary

Dr. Noel Keough B.Eng. (Mechancial) MEDes (Environmental Science), Phd (Geography)

Associate Professor of Sustainable Design

Co-Founder and Chair of the Board, Sustainable Calgary Society

Noel is a co-founder (1996) and Indicator Project Lead at Sustainable Calgary Society, and a founding member of the National Working Group for the Canadian Index of Wellbeing. He has been a faculty member at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape for 15 years. He has 30 years experience working in community development both locally and internationally. His work has included local renewable energy assessment and design, sustainability education, community development, popular theatre as a community animation process, sustainability indicators design and technology assessment and low carbon sustainable community planning. Internationally, Noel has worked in Central and South America, Central and South East Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He has also worked with a variety of community organizations in Alberta, Newfoundland and British Columbia. Noel’s forthcoming book Sustainability Matters: Prospects for Transition in Canada’s Petro CityState is due out in Spring 2021.