Turning insights into sustainable living action.

Dagmar Timmer is a systems strategist advancing sustainable living through partnerships and real-world implementation. She is a facilitator, researcher, policy analyst, and activist with nearly three decades of experience advancing sustainability through dialogue, policy, and action.

At OneEarth Living, Dagmar advances sustainable everyday living through deep partnerships and neighbourhood-scale implementation. She leads research into the diverse motivations for sustainable action by individuals and households, including what motivates people to repair goods, and translates these insights into action through programs such as Live Net Zero and One Planet Saanich.

Previously, Dagmar worked with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Switzerland and later with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) in Kenya. Her program facilitated a research-policy-action network of rainforest-agriculture margin sites in the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. She is a co-author of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, contributing to the tropical forest margins assessment.

Since returning from Kenya, Dagmar’s work has included facilitating UBC’s Summer Institute in Sustainability Leadership, teaching at Simon Fraser University, and working with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD). She and her sister Vanessa co-hosted Metro Vancouver’s award-winning television series The Sustainable Region for ten years. Earlier in her career, Dagmar was International Coordinator for Youth for Habitat II and helped co-found the Environmental Youth Alliance, reflecting a long-standing commitment to youth leadership and environmental action.

Dagmar holds an MA in Political Science and has worked, lived, and travelled in over 35 countries.