Youth X Campus Climate Action
Many student-led groups on University and College campuses across Canada are devoting their time and resources to the climate movement. In doing so, they’re changing the face of their universities. For example, student-led projects like the “greentainer” program provide students with a more sustainable way to consume cafeteria food by encouraging them to use reusable containers from a vending machine. Some school groups have also helped ban the sale of plastic water bottles on their campuses, and pushed for the instalment of more water fountains. Likewise, students have organized campus waste audits to reveal just how much waste the University is creating.
These campus groups are undoubtedly having a ripple effect: the students leading and partaking in these projects are taking their environmental-consciousness with them into the workforce and their personal lives, where they’re bound to make waves.
And you know what? We’re rooting for them every step of the way.
Meet Sustainability Initiative Thunder Bay
Sustainability Initiative Thunder Bay (SITB) is a student club based out of Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario that was created in September of 2019. The club is made up of students who work together to accomplish sustainability-oriented goals (a feat that’s much harder to achieve alone).
Specifically, SITB focuses on how the students and faculty of Lakehead University as well as the residents of Thunder Bay can adopt more sustainable practices in their lives.
These ideas are promoted through campus-wide events that are hosted throughout the school year (like a reusable container photo contest and an on-campus movie screening of the Lorax.
In just a few months the group has already started to rally students around sustainability, proving that there’s a genuine need and interest in climate action amongst post-secondary students.
If you wish to get in contact with the Sustainability Initiative Thunderbay, they can be reached via email, at sustainabilityinitiative.tbay@gmail.com. You can also follow them on Instagram and Twitter: @sustainabilityinitiativetbay.
Photos by Sustainability Initiative Thunderbay
