Welcome

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Welcome to the Sierra Youth Coalition!


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The Sierra Youth Coalition is an organization run by youth and for youth, serving as the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. Our mission is to empower young people to become active community leaders who contribute to making Canada a more sustainable society. To this end, we educate young people about ecological and social sustainability; we challenge unjust and environmentally destructive systems by using a solutions-based approach; and we advocate for the new generation of people in Canada who want to inherit a world worth inheriting: one where social justice and the environment are at the center of society's priorities.

Over ten years the Sierra Youth Coalition has grown into a nation-wide network, with hundreds of registered members and thousands of dedicated volunteers, operating in over 70 colleges and universities and in 10 high schools. The Sierra Youth Coalition is present and active in every major urban center and in many rural regions as well. Our projects affect the health and well-being of over 500 000 people across Canada.

We run the national Sustainable Campuses project, which concretely reduces the ecological footprints of our learning establishments while training a new generation of environmentally conscious leaders. We hold a national campus sustainability conference annually and many regional conferences where skills and success stories are shared. We engage high school students through the Community Youth Action Project and the new Sustainable High Schools project, through which we are developing a culture of volunteerism and social activism in a younger target audience. We also organize national and international awareness campaigns on pressing environmental issues raised by our membership (e.g. To The Tar Sands (Alberta) and the Deconstructing Dinner Caravan (Canada, USA, Mexico) bicycle campaigns). And finally, we provide a venue for youth participation at major conferences and summits at the local, national, and international level (Province Houses, Canadian Parliament, World Trade Organization, UN, G8, etc.).

Sierra Youth Coalition operates within an anti-oppressive framework. Within our work and lives, we work to dismantle systems of oppression, including but not limited to oppression based on 'race,' ancestry, place of origin, ethnicity, language, class, citizenship, creed, system of belief, gender, sexual orientation, age, record of offences, marital status, family status, physical and/or mental disability.