Christine Mills

Christine Mills is a lifelong musician and composer. She plays about a dozen instruments at wildly varying skill levels, ranging from “Hey, pretty good!” to “Oh, please stop…” She has written music for film and video and has released four CDs. In various past lives she has been a competitive downhill skier, a hang-glider and sailplane pilot; she loves kayaking, canoeing and wilderness camping.

Christine met Joanna Macy in 2006, has since helped out at intensives, and served on the facilitation team during Joanna’s ten-day intensives in Guelph. A highlight came in 2011 when as the Band that Reconnects, she and friends performed a set of Joanna’s favourite songs prior to her talk in Toronto.

Christine has written articles on climate change, local sustainability, community resilience and social justice for online publications such as One Thousand Trees and Tamarack Institute’s “Seeking Community” blog. She is a co-founding member of Transition Guelph, one of a global network of transition initiatives dedicated to making our communities more connected, sustainable and resilient in a rapidly changing world.

Christine is a transgender woman. She and Sally Ludwig, her partner of 33 years, are avid “urban farmers” working to lower their overall environmental footprint. They live in Guelph, Ontario with a dog, a cat and five chickens.