Silver Donald Cameron

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Silver Donald Cameron

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" Silver Donald Cameron was the perfect speaker for an evening celebrating Nova Scotia beaches. His unique insight about the complexity and beauty of our beach systems paired with his ability to describe coastal processes in clear and moving ways is rare. His wit and wisdom, his easy-going manner and his adventurous spirit really made the evening."

-- Jen Graham, Ecology Action Centre, Halifax, NS 2009

For more than three decades, Silver Donald Cameron has been doing it his way – to the delight of readers and audiences. Exploring ideas, telling uproarious stories, pursuing adventures – and always writing and speaking about what he's done, and seen, and learned.

Sailing away to tropic islands in his own sailboat. Singing his way through Mao's China with a choir of coal
miners. Broadcasting to audiences of millions on radio and TV. Writing plays for the stage, scripts for film and television, and award-winning stories for corporations and foundations.

Quitting his job as a university professor in order to live by his wits. Twenty years later, returning to become a dean at a university in crisis – and, later, resigning to freelance again. Writing hundreds of articles, more than 50 radio plays, and sixteen successful books. Prowling both coastlines of North America researching The Living Beach, his award-winning environmental study of shorelines. The Living Beach, he says, is actually a book about change.

“A beach isn't a place, it's a process,” Silver Donald explains. “A beach is geological change, happening second-by-second, right before your eyes. And constant change within a stable
process – that's what life is. We spend our lives dancing with change.”

Dancing with change. Leading the renewal of a community flattened by the codfish collapse. Creating a unique community television station. Picking up his hammer and saw to restore elegant heritage homes. Running a tourism business and a property-rental company. Receiving numerous prizes and awards, including two honourary doctorates.

And giving memorable presentations, passionate and original, laced with stories and humour. You'll never forget The Two Fiddlers, The Memorial Bridge, The Ultimate Search Engine, A Pig named Mrs. Johnson, or many others.

Silver Donald Cameron now writes a column for the Halifax Sunday Herald, cruises the Maritimes in a boat he built himself, does projects for governments and foundations, works on new books and speaks about dancing with change – community renewal, professional development, the uses of imagination, and the new environmental realities.

Associate Member of the Arthur Irving Institute for the Environment at Acadia University

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Nova Scotia, Canada