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Matthew Laird (born 1977) is a Canadian academic, activist and politician. Having helped lead numerous political campaigns he continues to work with community groups on social and environmental issues. Laird was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, earning a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia. After spending some years in the private sector as a software developer he returned to academia to work in bioinformatic research at Simon Fraser University. He currently resides in the City of Vancouver. == Environmentalism == Laird has talked about being raised around recycling and green ideas as the basis for his environmental activism. While involved with transportation and sustainability advocacy most of his life he became most involved after moving to New Westminster in 2003. He was a founding member of New Westminster Environmental Partners, a New Westminster focused non-partisan sustainability advocacy group. Some notable accomplishments while working with NWEP are the implementation of an anti-idling bylaw, a cosmetic pesticide ban, pedestrian safety improvements at New Westminster SkyTrain Station and a Sustainability Documentary Film Festival. Laird was also a proponent for New Westminster's Royal City Farmers Market and has served on the board of directors for three years. Always an advocate for transit and sustainable transportation, Laird is a member of the Livable Region Coalition. In conjunction with his NWEP work, Laird was a leader of the campaign to stop TransLink's United Boulevard Extension project. He's a motorman on Vancouver's Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway and was a driver on Bombardier's Olympic Line during the 2010 Winter Olympics. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Laird」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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