The Sustainability Committee primary mandate has been the formation of Sustainable Winegrowing BC (SWBC). SWBC's role is to foster grape and wine production and winery hospitality services that enhance environmental quality, create a resource base on which the industry is economically viable, and improve quality of life for growers, producers, and society as a whole.
Severine Pinte is Board Liaison and Chair of the Sustainability Committee and SWBC. Katie Pease is Program Admin and you can contact her at info@sustainablewinegrowingbc.ca for more information about joining the program.
Chair & Board Liaison: Severine Pinte
Program Manager: Katie Pease, Synapse Strategies
Mandate: Foster grape and wine production and winery hospitality services that enhance environmental quality. Create a resource base on which the industry is economically viable, and improve quality of life for growers, producers, and society as a whole.
Current Committee members include:
Industry
- P. Blandin
- H. Buchler (Grower)
- J. Campardo
- C. Enns (Laughing Stock)
- K. Gillis (Red Rooster)
- K. Malone (Hillside)
- S. McDonald (MRS Grower)
- M. Nierychlo
- S. Oldfield (Tinhorn)
- G. O'Rourke (Tightrope)
- D. Paterson (Constellation)
- S. Pinte-Kosaka (Le Vieux Pin)
- E. Triggs (Culmina)
- L. Wambold (Mission Hill)
- M. Watson (Constellation)
- B. Wightman
External Partners
- M. Anderson (BCWI)
- Dr. P. Bowen (SRC)
- M. Holm (OSCA)
- J. Larivière (Env. Farm Plan)
- T. Stathers (Okanagan College)
- G. Strachan, Consultant