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The Sustainable Campuses project aims to empower students to lead initiatives on their campuses toward greater social, ecological and economic sustainability through campus operations, curricula and community member attitudes. Read more about Sustainable Campuses.

Check out the posting at syc-cjs.org - click on Work @ SYC in the left menu
Deadline: May 16, 2008

This is a great CD that supports the Energy Action Coalition - and therefore SYC! We've been rocking out to it in the SYC office, and we know you'll love it. Unreleased tracks from Feist, Bloc Part and many other great bands! Check it out!

On this page...

• A Community Website
• Become part of the movement!
• We're hiring!
• New resources developed!
• Think Outside the Bottle!
• Current Campaigns
  • Join the Campus Climate Challenge!
    • Have you heard of the Residence Energy Reduction Challenge, a Tri-Uni contest that's part of the CCC?
  • Join our Student Unions for Sustainability Campaign!

This site is as good as the users who contribute to it - and contributing has never been easier. Simply register as a user, read the Editing Help and you have instant access to upload documents, success stories, best practices, build your regional networks, and run your own campus page.

Join the Sustainable Campuses listserv!

We would like to invite you to become a coalition partner of Sustainable Campuses. This partnership demonstrates your commitment to our initiative and will help us become more economically sustainable ourselves! More information

Frustrated with the current state of the Greenhouse Gas Inventory? Think you have the skills to improve it? Apply to update the inventory! Funding for this position was kindly provided by Clean Air-Cool Planet.

Maggie (BC RC) and Lauren (former Ontario RC) worked hard on a new resource over the summer - the Sustainable Campuses Resources Guide! It is the only thing you need to print - a summary guide for all the other resources. Check it out at the Resource Centre.

The 06-07 SYC Campus Reports gives you the low-down on what campus sustainability looked like across Canada as of April 2007. Check it out! You should also definitely look into the current issue of Alternatives which has a special campus directory on green learning featuring campus sustainability initiatives from across Canada!

You can also check out the new Taking IT Global Youth Guide to Action on Climate Change featuring members of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition and Anjali Helferty of the Sierra Youth Coalition. The Guide will form the basis of a series of 18 workshops taking place across the country from late October to January, and is full of great info and resources.

Groups and individuals are pledging to choose tap water over bottled water
and we need your help: Take the pledge!


For more info on this campaign, please check out:
http://www.insidethebottle.org

Join the Campus Climate Challenge!

SYC is the Canadian partner of the Energy Action coalition, which is organizing the Campus Climate Challenge across the US and Canada in response to the climate crisis! It involves movie screenings, letter writing, and your university President. What are we working towards? This great short movie should give you an idea.
> Read more about this campaign...

Find out more about the Ontario Residence Energy Reduction Challenge!

Queen's, Waterloo and Guelph are launching the Campus Climate Challenge in their residences this winter. The three schools and residences at each schools will compete against each other to reduce their energy consumption. Eternal glory (and a solar panel!) awaits the winning school, and the winning residence at each school will also receive a large prize (to be determined) and a party to celebrate their contribution to tackling climate change by reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

Find out more about the Ontario Residence Climate Challenge, how it works, who's working on it, and track the progress of each residence.


The Sierra Youth Coalition is a proud founding organization of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition.

Join our Student Unions for Sustainability Campaign!

More and more student unions are taking the sustainability shift across the country! Student unions have a lot of potential to foster sustainability as a paradigm shift and, on a local level, to foster their own sustainable campus!
> Read more about this campaign...

Enjoy! Thanks to Claudio (ProComm) and Lauren (Ontario RC) for your work pulling this together!