Fundraiser for the Wilderness Society 

The story of Brenda Hean is not well known but highly significant to a world trying to deal with environmental issues as an international community. The story of her founding the first Green political party in the world in order to save an alpine lake provides a microcosmic mirror to the world’s pressing environmental issues - global warming, deforestation and climate-change. The manner in which she and her supporters spoke of environmental issues throughout the Pedder campaign is even more relevant today.
 
Brenda Hean is an inspiration.  She was in many ways an ordinary person leading an ordinary life who had an extraordinary epiphany when the Lake she loved was threatened. The transformation of ordinary people into activists and dissidents is always fascinating but all the more because Brenda Hean was in her early sixties and a woman prior to both the women’s movement and the emergence of environmentalism. She reminds all of us that it is never too late to create change.

For more information visit: www.brendahean.com