JOSEPH LIN, MD
604-327-8693, or e-mail. Chinese introduction

Joseph Lin is the founding President of Green Club on environmental education. He is an interpreter, organizer, writer, commentator and publisher on environment, heritage and eco-tourism. He was also a co-host of a weekly Chinese TV programs. He has received the Federal Environment Volunteer Award, The Land Conservancy BC Conservation Award, Vancouver Natural History Society Award for Nature Education & Conservation, Vancouver Parks Board Volunteer Award, and Richmond Mayor's Environment Achievement Award.

Joseph Lin, a retired Pediatrician and family doctor, started off as an environmentalist in Taiwan from 1987~1993. He is the founding President of Green Club for environmental education. He is an well known environment and eco-tourism columnist and an experienced eco-tour organizer and interpreter since 1993.

He has joined the Vancouver Natural History Society (VNHS) and attended hundreds of field trips and evening seminars, Metro Vancouver Regional Park educational programs and community architecture heritage walks since 1994. He is interested in and studied ecology, botany, forestry, zoology, salmon, history, first nations and heritage.

He is an organizer of weekly healthy workshops and interpreter of nature walks , biweekly Vancouver community heritage walks and monthly eco-tours in Mandarin for the Taiwanese and Chinese communities since 1999. He organizes over 30 varieties of two to three days* eco-tours to Lower Mainland and BC Interior, Vancouver Island, and Washington State since 1993.

He is the only environmental columnist of several major Chinese newspapers, and the webmaster of Green Culture Web. He was a co-host of FM 96.1 Chinese Radio program on environment education every Tuesday night. He also received interviews as a commentator from newspapers, radio and TV programs on conservation issues. His Chinese Green Culture Digest Daily is sent to over 2,000 Green Club members and friends every day and the bi-weekly English Greater Vancouver Green Culture Event News is well received by over 2,000 naturalists and groups.

He is a liaison member of Vancouver Riley Park Community and City Planning, and board director of Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Forum. He was a former public advisory committee member of EcoAction, Environment Canada (2000~2005), Board Director of Vancouver Natural History Society  (1999~2004), and Board Director of Pacific Spirit Park Society (1999~2003).