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Tim Pringle, Founding Member and Director

 

Tim Pringle

In 1988 Tim became the first Executive Director of the Real Estate Foundation of BC and established the foundation’s investment program and grants program. When he retired in 2010, he was honoured with the first BC Land Champion Award. He then became the founding President of the Partnership for Water Sustainability.

An original thinker, his mantra is “use and conservation of land are equal values”. As Chair of the Ecological Accounting Process, Tim led the 6-year program of applied research that resulted in the methodology and metrics that enables local governments to operationalize “natural asset management” within local government budgets.

Green Infrastructure Champion

“Zooming out to view the past three decades as a whole, the period 1997 through 2005 was the crucible for the golden period that followed from 2006 through 2011. The crucible era is bracketed by the passage of the Fish Protection Act in 1997 and the Green Infrastructure Consultation Workshop held in May 2005. These were literally watershed moments,” wrote Kim Stephens, Partnership Executive Director, in the Chronicle of Green Infrastructure Innovation in  Metro Vancouver from 1994 through 2024.

“A large cast of characters was involved. We were venturing into uncharted territory, and that meant taking leaps of faith and calculated risks that we were heading in the right direction. We pushed the boundaries of knowledge and experience. We learned together. There was passion, there was commitment, and most of all there was a can-do attitude. It was a movement.”

 

“Drawing on my firsthand knowledge and experience in working closely with so many during this period, I view the roster of players in term of three tiers of champions. Keep in mind that my perspective is the convening for action lens.”

 

Who are the Tier One champions? 

“Many individuals have played important roles in the green infrastructure movement. But whose efforts were make or break during the crucible period? Seven individuals stand out as Tier One champions because of their ability to change the game. And Tim Pringle is one of the seven!”

 

 

“The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. That expression captures the collective contribution of the group of seven. Their individual orbits intersected, overlapped and aligned in ways that powered a movement that was inspired by the greater good.”

“Each individual in the group of Tier One champions rose to the moment in ways that were complementary. They provided leadership within their individual spheres of influence. When the smoke cleared, the collective impact of their contributions was transformational,” concludes Kim Stephens.

To Learn More:

To learn why Tim Pringle was an influencer in a profound and public way, click on Tier One Champions for implementing an Ecosystem-based Approach in British Columbia. This is an extract from the Chronicle of Green Infrastructure Innovation in Metro Vancouver from 1994 through 2024.