Fleming College

Fleming College’s Chris Magwood, Coordinator of the Sustainable Building Design and Construction program, has received the Enviro-Hero Education Award from the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust.Mr. Magwood, an expert in environmentally sustainable building practices, also gives workshops and lectures on straw-bale building and helped create the sustainable building program at the college’s Haliburton Campus.Under Mr. Magwood’s guidance, students in the program are currently building the Camp Kawartha Environment Centre at Trent University in Peterborough. The college’s previous sustainable building projects include R.D. Lawrence Place in Minden, the 4Cs Food Bank in Haliburton, the Kinark Outdoor Centre near Minden and the Madoc Performing Arts Centre.Mr. Magwood received the award at a fundraiser for the Haliburton Highlands Land Trust. More than 170 people attended the second annual gala fundraiser at the Minden Hills Community Centre on May 22.Entitled Wild About Nature, the evening was a celebration of people who have made outstanding contributions to environmentalism in the past year. Haliburton School of The Arts faculty member and Haliburton artist Wendy Bateman was also lauded at the event. She received the Enviro-Hero Arts Award.