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Edmonton Journal • Tue, Nov 9, 1993

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Edmonton Journal • Fri, Nov 29, 1991

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Edmonton Jounal • Fri, Nov 29, 1991

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Edmonton Journal, Fri, Nov 29, 1991

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Edmonton Journal, Thu, May 5, 1988

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Greenspiration is the brainchild of Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff. Together they traveled the globe with their bicycles, documenting inspiring environmental initiatives and organizing for change – that is until Tooker’s tragic passing Mar. 3, 2004. It’s all here – their writing, his passing, and legacy projects.

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Edmonton Journal Thu, Apr 6, 1989

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Edmonton Journal
Thu, Nov 19, 1987

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Edmonton Journal
Wed, Jul 8, 1987
Page 47

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The Star Theatre/Eco-City Multipurpose Rumpus Room/Graphic Arts Building shortly before it was torn down.

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Tooker Gomberg, an environmental activist known as one of Canada’s most colorful political figures, was reported missing and presumed dead after apparently jumping off a bridge March 5 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was 48, and was said to have suffered from depression.

In the early 1990s, Gomberg served one term as a member of the Edmonton city council, where he was known as a stubborn but engaging advocate for environmental causes, particularly bicycle-riding to reduce automobile use. Criticized for not wearing a tie to his swearing-in, he publicly fed a tie to compost worms in his office.

He once locked himself inside a vault in the office of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein to protest Klein’s failure to implement the Kyoto treaty on the environment. In 2000 he and a group of followers threw pennies at the head of Imperial Oil during the Canadian corporation’s annual meeting, to symbolize the price per share of reducing greenhouse gasses.

“I have never seen anyone who walked the talk like Tooker did — he lived what he preached,” fellow councilman Brian Mason, now a provincial legislator, told The Canadian Press.

Born in suburban Montreal, Richard Gomberg was a graduate of United Talmud Torah day schools and Herzliah High School, and began his activist career as a member of the Labor Zionist youth group Habonim. “Tooker” was a childhood nickname.

After graduating from Hampshire College as an environmental studies major, he returned to Montreal, starting one of Canada’s first curbside recycling programs in 1977.

He moved to Edmonton in 1982, initially working for an energy firm promoting conservation in schools. After leaving the city council in 1995 he mounted unsuccessful campaigns for mayor of Edmonton and for federal parliament in Montreal. In 2000 he ran for mayor of Toronto and ran a distant second.

Gomberg is survived by his wife of 17 years, Angela Bischoff; his parents, Charles and Bayla Gomberg, and three brothers.
- the Forward

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Angela Bischoff is director of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, the small but mighty group that led the successful campaign to phase out Ontario’s five dirty coal-fired power plants. The alliance is now working to move Ontario towards a 100 per cent renewable energy future through an integrated combination of energy conservation and efficiency, cost-effective made-in-Ontario green energy, and energy co-operation with Hydro-Québec.

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Tooker Gomberg, an environmental activist known as one of Canada’s most colorful political figures, was reported missing and presumed dead after apparently jumping off a bridge March 4, 2005 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was 48, and was said to have suffered from depression.

In the early 1990s, Gomberg served one term as a member of the Edmonton city council, where he was known as a stubborn but engaging advocate for environmental causes, particularly bicycle-riding to reduce automobile use. Criticized for not wearing a tie to his swearing-in, he publicly fed a tie to compost worms in his office.

He once locked himself inside a vault in the office of Alberta Premier Ralph Klein to protest Klein’s failure to implement the Kyoto treaty on the environment. In 2000 he and a group of followers threw pennies at the head of Imperial Oil during the Canadian corporation’s annual meeting, to symbolize the price per share of reducing greenhouse gasses.

“I have never seen anyone who walked the talk like Tooker did — he lived what he preached,” fellow councilman Brian Mason, now a provincial legislator, told The Canadian Press.

Born in suburban Montreal, Richard Gomberg was a graduate of United Talmud Torah day schools and Herzliah High School, and began his activist career as a member of the Labor Zionist youth group Habonim. “Tooker” was a childhood nickname.

After graduating from Hampshire College as an environmental studies major, he returned to Montreal, starting one of Canada’s first curbside recycling programs in 1977.

He moved to Edmonton in 1982, initially working for an energy firm promoting conservation in schools. After leaving the city council in 1995 he mounted unsuccessful campaigns for mayor of Edmonton and for federal parliament in Montreal. In 2000 he ran for mayor of Toronto and ran a distant second.

Gomberg is survived by his wife of 17 years, Angela Bischoff; his parents, Charles and Bayla Gomberg, and three brothers.

https://forward.com/news/6532/tooker-gomberg-48-presumed-dead/

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Originally built in 1904 as the Star Theater, The Rumpus Room was used as a theater, offices, store and performance space. It eventually became The Graphic Arts Building. It was demolished to make way for a laydown yard for the Valley Line LRT in 2019.

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