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STUART EASTWOOD, who
wrote this month’s piece on hybrid and electric vehicles, began writing about cars for The Dynamo, the newsletter of the South Island Branch of the Old English Car Club of British Columbia. He has also contributed to Western Driver, The British Canadian, and Auto Life Quarterly. Born in London, England, Eastwood now enjoys Island living here in Victoria. His hobbies include reading, writing, and collecting books. justin eckersall is a Vancouver-based photographer who this month shot our green cars and Davis brothers stories. Born in Wales and raised in Ontario, he started working at 14 in a colour lab, where he began experimenting with his first SLR camera and darkroom effects. His photographic career brought him to Victoria for a few years and has since taken him around the world. “I loved shooting the green car story. It reminded me of my work on the European Volkswagen campaigns. It takes a bit of photo trickery to capture the car in motion.”
Boulevard this month as our new Design Matters columnist. Raised in Victoria, she graduated from the School of Architecture at Dalhousie and worked for a number of architectural firms, including Evoke International Design in Vancouver. On her return to Victoria she worked with the Meade Design Group, instructed at the Pacific Design Academy and in 2010 joined Merrick Architecture. The mother of two daughters under three, MacNeill also has a design blog and a homebased children’s business, Koo & Poppet. Each month in Design Matters she will bring her opinion-based focus on cool, interesting or noteworthy design trends, items, products and services in the region.
Sarah Macneill joins
jody Paterson writes our Creative Minds profile this month. An Island-born writer and social activist as well as a former reporter and senior editor at the Times Colonist, Paterson still writes a weekly column for the paper, as well as freelancing for magazines and non-profits, birdwatching, writing haiku and kayaking. Boulevard is sad to say goodbye to Paterson, who heads off shortly to Honduras to work for Cuso International. Meanwhile, enjoy her article about Ana Maria Peredo, a UVic professor who, like Paterson, started as a journalist and now promotes the power of local communities to build their own futures.