Sarah Newton
Sarah is a passionate, dedicated advocate for environmental protection and revitalization through the advancement of indigenous rights. They are proud to be of South African heritage and carry forward the legacy of working towards a just and equitable future for coming generations. Sarah formerly worked as the Land Manager for Liard First Nation and has run several projects to build capacity for youth and address community environmental concerns. Through their business, Chromatic Landscapes, they had a 3 kW portable, solar energy system built to power on-the-land events that is currently being utilized for their ground source heat pump research. They were recently featured as 1 of 100 women working on the Energy Transition through the Pembina Institute and Globe Series.
Sarah is an undergraduate student of the Northern Environmental and Conservation Sciences degree at Yukon University. Their interest in energy systems developed through work with the Northern Energy Innovation Team at the YukonU Research Centre. They sit on the board Northern Community Land Trust who are seeking to build affordable and sustainable housing in a not-for-profit ownership model. These activities fuel their interest in ground source heat pumps. Sarah is working to conduct thermal response tests in the Whitehorse area to better understand and characterize the thermal properties of local rock formations. They believe that ground source heat pumps may be a way to provide a stable cost of energy over the long term while reducing greenhouse gas emissions in Northern Canada.
