Explorer, author and biologist Karsten Heuer will speak to us about his latest adventure, Finding Farley, a 5,000 km cross-Canada pilgrimage by canoe and sailboat to visit renowned author Farley Mowat. This will be his first public presentation about the 2007 journey, a 5-month epic that took Heuer, his wife, their two-year-old toddler, and dog through parts of Saskatchewan, northern Manitoba, Nunavut and the Maritimes, visiting the settings of many of Mowat’s books along the way. Karsten will use images, film clips, to weave a powerful and compelling story of changing landscapes, the child-parent relationship, the importance of elders, and the challenges and rewards of immersing children in the natural world. Learn more here.

Karsten Heuer is wildlife biologist, park warden, and author with an appetite for long treks. In 1998 and 1999 he walked and skied 3,400 kilometres from Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming to Canada’s Yukon Territory to highlight the need for a system of wildlife corridors and core reserves (the Y2Y Conservation Initiative). In 2003, he again set off on skis and foot with his wife, Leanne Allison, and followed the Porcupine Caribou Herd from their Yukon winter range to endangered Alaskan calving grounds and back for five months. Most recently, he paddled and sailed for five months across Canada with his wife and two-year-old son to visit author Farley Mowat. He is the author of two books (Walking the Big Wild and Being Caribou).

• social responsibility, ethical consumerism, and global citizenship
• author of The Better World Handbook (www.betterworldhandbook.com) and The Better World Shopper (www.betterworldshopper.org)