Peter Ladner

Peter Ladner (born February 12, 1949) is a former Vancouver city councillor, Metro Vancouver vice-chair and business owner.

Ladner has more than 40 years of journalistic experience in print, radio and television; is the author of ''The Urban Food Revolution: Changing the Way We Feed Cities'', published by New Society in November, 2011; and is a frequent speaker on business, food, community and sustainability issues. From 2009–2011, he was a Fellow at the Simon Fraser University Centre for Dialogue, researching, teaching and organizing public events around the theme ''Planning Cities as if Food Matters''. He has a lifelong interest in growing food. As a city councilor, he worked with the Vancouver Food Policy Council in initiating the city’s program to add 2010 food-producing community garden plots by 2010. Provided by Wikipedia