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goBEYOND Campus
Climate Network
Youth-Driven Climate Action in British Columbia
Sarah Stoner, Project Manager
Master Candidate, University of Victoria
Alexandre Vigneault, Volunteer
PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia - Vancouver
AASHE 2010 Conference, Colorado, October 10-12th
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Climate Change is already affecting us
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Pine Beetle epidemics across
British Columbia (BC)
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The Challenge
16.3 million hectares affected,
equivalent to 60% of the state of
Colorado
100-year storms in Vancouver
Salmon populations threatened by
abnormal warm water
Pine Beetle Epidemics: image courtesy of www.unbc.ca
100 years storm, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC
The goBEYOND Campus Climate Network is
generously funded by the Vancouver Foundation and BC Hydro
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By 2050, the majority of
today’s students will
be preparing for
retirement
By 2050, leading climate
scientists tell us that we
must be living in a world
that is approaching
carbon-neutrality
BC Students attend the National Sustainable Campuses Conference
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• In this climate of urgency:
– In July 2007, 14 students from 5 universities in BC came
together to figure out how to collaborate: Birth of the BC Campus
Climate Network;
– In 2008, there was significant provincial government leadership
on climate change: introduction of Bill 44 that mandated public
sector institutions to go carbon neutral by 2010; carbon tax on all
fossil fuel;
– Spring 2008, the Sierra Youth Coalition, UBC Sustainability
Office and Common Energy partnered to create the goBEYOND
project;
– Spring 2010: goBEYOND Campus Climate Network was
registered as a non-for-profit society.
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goBEYOND aims to
educate,
inspire,
engage,
and support
today’s youth to take climate action on their campuses.
The goBEYOND Campus Climate Network is
generously funded by the Vancouver Foundation and BC Hydro
Student Population
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Don’t Know
Educate
Don’t Care
Inspire
Don’t Act
Engage
Know, Care and Act
Support
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• In just three years, goBEYOND has reached
over 150,000 students across BC;
• We are currently active on 12 campuses across
the province of British Columbia;
• 8 part-time staff
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The 5 pillars of goBEYOND:
Planning
Challenges
Education &
International
Training
Ray facilitates a communications workshop, August 2008
The goBEYOND Campus Climate Network is
generously funded by the Vancouver Foundation and BC Hydro
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Planning Pillar
Creating space for youth to lead their institutions in collaboratively planning a lowcarbon future.
The UVic community engages in Common Energy’s climate change
planning process
• Bring campuses beyond
climate neutral: using
capacity of universities to go
beyond GHG accounting,
but create and test solutions
to solve climate change.
• Collaborative plans
produced at U. of Victoria by
Common Energy
• Initiate the collaborative
planning at UBC-Vancouver,
that lead to Climate Action
Plan in 2009
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Challenges Pillar
Offering easily adaptable projects for campus organizations that would like to directly
reduce greenhouse gas emissions while engaging their community
• goBEYOND Personal Challenge
• Over 3,000 students have
signed up to take steps in their
own lives to reduce their carbon
footprints
• Residence Energy Challenges
• Six campuses in BC will be
participating in energy reductions
challenges this school year
A TRU student commits to making climate-conscious
lifestyle changes
• BC Hydro Invent the Future
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Education Pillar
Working to establish curriculum that is engaging, community-oriented, and creates
regional climate change solutions in all spheres
• Three Province-wide TeachIn : 20 min class discussion
linking climate change issues
and the field of study of the
participants;
• In 2010, the Teach-In took
place in Ontario and Kenya
as well;
Jeh challenges students to envision a sustainable campus at the
SYC national conference.
• In 2010, we had the first
Sustainability Education
Across the Province
Workshop: for faculty to
enhance their curriculum with
sustainability materials
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Training Pillar
Increasing the ability of students and youth organizations by providing relevant skills
training, accessible toolkits, and mentorship
Participants at the goBeyond Youth Action Gathering, August 2008
• Youth Action
Gathering: Week
long training
with high school
and university
students
• Regional
Sustainable
Campuses
Conference
Contact Information:
Emails:
Sarah Stoner, Project Manager: [email protected]
Alexandre Vigneault, volunteer: [email protected]
Web: http://www.go-beyond.ca/
The goBEYOND Campus Climate Network is
generously funded by the Vancouver Foundation,
BC Hydro and many others