Mike Unrau

Mike Unrau lives near the great Rocky Mountains, in Calgary, where the  headwaters flow down across the vast prairies. Loving the mountains and  mountain ecology river systems, he joined the Wonder of Water  Initiative during the International Year of Freshwater to produce edutainment programming for public awareness, He has worked for years  in environmental education, social action, arts and community  development, recently working as Manager of Environmental Education at  Green Calgary Association, and as a water expert for the Caring For Our Watersheds program. After his Masters Degree in arts and international  social work, he directed several self initiated projects leading and  teaching University students in social work for application in rural  Indian community development, including local water management. A fiery passion for meaning-making and human dynamics, Mike uses a participatory  research model in his facilitation with a holistic approach to  education initiatives and "big-picture" thinking in seeing connections  between community, ecology and relationship.