Lynn Oliphant is a

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from the Department of

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Biomedical Sciences at the

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and a founding member of the Prairie Institute for Human Ecology. Oliphant was a frequent candidate for the

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and a one-time candidate for the

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, but was never elected.

Life and career

Oliphant received a Ph.D. in

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from the

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and moved to

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in 1971. There he became actively involved with the

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. Oliphant began running as a political candidate in Saskatchewan for the New Green Alliance in 1999, a party that would later be renamed the Green Party of Saskatchewan. In a province that has never elected a Green candidate to the Legislative Assembly, Oliphant never received more than 291 votes in four provincial elections between

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. Oliphant also ran as a federal Green Party candidate in the 2004 federal election. Oliphant has been recognized for promoting sustainability. In the late 1990s, Oliphant constructed a straw-bale house near

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, what he called a "physical demonstration of an alternative home" that could function in the Prairie climate. In 2005, he received a Canadian Environment Award for his work on the Craik Sustainable Living Project, which was a project proposed by the Prairie Institute for Human Ecology. In 2016, Oliphant founded a private graveyard on his own property that could offer sustainable burials at twelve gravesites, which he called Prairie Sky Cemetery. In 2023, at the age of 80, Oliphant was one of seven Saskatchewan residents who took the provincial government to court over its failure to achieve greenhouse gas emissions, arguing that the continued expansion of fossil fuel-fired electricity generation ultimately violates

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Electoral results

Provincial

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Graham Addley Graham Addley (born 1963) is a Canadian provincial politician. He was the New Democratic Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan for the constituency of Saskatoon Sutherland until he was defeated in the 2007 election by the Sa ...

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Federal

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Canadian Geographic Environmental Community Award, 2005

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References

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