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Planting the seeds for a better tomorrow 

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The actions of Sovann Muon and the Grounds Maintenance team at the Glendon Campus show that with passion, innovation and just a seed of an idea, anything can grow.  

Muon is a certified arborist, horticulturist, master gardener of Ontario and the team leader of Grounds Maintenance at the Glendon Campus. In 2018, he had an idea that would help incorporate more sustainable practices at Glendon’s community gardens. Instead of letting annual flowers wither away, together with his team he decided to recycle, propagate and nurture seedlings to be replanted the following year. Not only would this help reduce costs, but it would also lay the groundwork for an initiative that promotes environmental stewardship.  

Sovann Muon (left) talks about a plant on York University's Glendon Campus during a tour of the grounds
Sovann Muon (left) talks about a plant on York University’s Glendon Campus during a recent tour of the grounds and green space. Image by Lauren Castelino

After successfully piloting the project in 2019, more than 1,000 plants were nurtured and ready to be planted at Glendon Campus by February 2021. By making a simple yet transformative change, the team’s vision of blooming gardens with flourishing flowers and edible plants came to life. Today, the gardens at Glendon are more than just thriving plants; they are an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to connect with the community and environment.  

The grounds team is dedicated to expanding their impact, with an emphasis on increasing educational and learning opportunities. Muon says that gardening is beneficial not only for the environment but also for the community, as it promotes nutrition, physical activity and team building.  

On Thursday, Oct. 21, Muon led a tour of the Glendon Campus to introduce attendees to the various plants growing on the grounds. The event nurtured a sense of community for participants and marked the first official tour of its kind for Glendon. During the tour, Muon shared his expansive knowledge of plant life on campus – specifically, edible plants like spruce, serviceberry and dandelion. The tour was initially designed for each of the four seasons, but there are plans to conduct more tours if community demand increases.   

A collaborative effort between the Grounds Maintenance team, students and Glendon leadership helped to make the tour a success. Duncan Appleton, technical co-ordinator and course director of the Drama and Creative Arts program, worked with students from his course to help with the construction of planters at the garden. Maureen Plantec, Kariane Saint-Gelais and Amanda Murray – all students in the Master of Conference Interpreting program – performed research and interpreted the tour, with technical support from Aurélien Muller. Geneviève Quintin, associate director of the Glendon Centre for Cognitive Health, organized publicity for the tour to increase awareness of the opportunity. Muon’s colleague Sean James acted as a support system for the garden and tour. All of the efforts were supported and encouraged by Glendon Superintendent John Ljubicic.  

This innovative team intends to move forward with their vision; to employ best practices for the next season. Muon said that the long-term goal is to enhance engagement with students, staff, and faculty members to encourage “mutual respect between humans and nature.”

The University community and Grounds Maintenance team at Glendon demonstrate how one small act can make a significant impact towards building positive change for a better, more sustainable tomorrow.

Brent Brodie

Brent Brodie

Brent Brodie, senior procurement analyst and project lead, Procurement Services, discusses York’s Social Procurement Policy and how procurement at the University aligns with sustainability  

Fair Trade Campus Week 2021 draws attention to the power of making trade fair for all

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An annual event on the Keele Campus, York University’s Fair Trade Campus Week, which took place Oct. 25 to 29, draws attention to the growing instability in the global economy. Fair trade is a movement for change that works directly with businesses, consumers and campaigners to make trade fair for farmers and workers.

York University’s Fair Trade Campus Week featured a combination of virtual and in-person events, including a virtual panel discussion focused on the theme “Fair Trade, Sustainability and Universities.” Panellists were Sean McHugh, executive director, Canadian Fair Trade Network; Madison Hopper, marketing manager, Equifruit; Pippa Rogers, director of communications, Fairtrade Canada, and Mark McLaughlin, chief commercial services officer, Simon Fraser University. Joining the panellists from York University were Tom Watt, director, food services, Ancillary Services Department and Chad Saunders, director, bookstores, print and mailing services, Ancillary Services Department. The panel was hosted by students, faculty and staff and organized by Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Associate Professor John Simoulidis.

Panellists shared their experiences, stories and successes working within the fair trade movement. The theme throughout the discussion was power in numbers – when groups of people and organizations share a common goal, they can exert influence to create positive change and universities can be a big part of that change. In Canada, the population of university campuses is close to three million, this accounts for almost seven per cent of the overall Canadian population. This gives campuses tremendous leverage through its purchasing power by demanding that fair trade certified products are included in its food services contracts.

Zoom panel discussing Fair Trade
Participants in the Fair Trade panel addressed the theme of “Fair Trade, Sustainability and Universities”

Attendees were encouraged to participate by posing questions to the panel and by taking part in a fair trade trivia quiz. Giulia Rosano from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change was the winner of the trivia quiz and received a fair trade gift prize.

Fair trade products are available on York University’s campuses. Fair trade apparel is available at the University’s Bookstore, in partnership with Green Campus Co-Op. Food Services’ partner Aramark offers fair trade coffee, teas and bananas.

To learn more about fair trade apparel, visit the Bookstore website. York students can get involved in the fair trade movement on campus by signing up using this form. 

To learn more about the Fair Trade Campus program, fair trade products or about how to get involved in advancing an economy that is fair and sustainable, visit the Fair Trade Campus website or the Fairtrade Canada website. 

Bike Share offers a sustainable way to travel on York’s campuses

Bike share station on York University's Keele campus
Bike share station on York University’s Keele campus.

York University has partnered with Bike Share Toronto and is the first post-secondary institution in the Greater Toronto Area to bring the bike sharing service onto its campuses. The partnership brings a sustainable, healthy and affordable way to get around the campuses and the city.

The University partnered with the City of Toronto to install three Bike Share stations on the Keele and Glendon campuses. Located on the north and south sides of the York University Subway Station on the Keele Campus, and inside the main entrance of the Glendon Campus, these bikes provide an additional and sustainable mode of transportation while further enhancing York’s relationship with the City of Toronto. In addition, there are also Bike Share stations located on Sentinel Road at The Pond Road and at Murray Ross Parkway.

The program provides community members with 24-7 convenient access to bikes and a variety of payment options. Users of the Bike Share program can pay for use of the bikes on a per-ride basis at $3.25 for 30 minutes, purchase multi-day passes or, as members of the York community, take advantage of one of the two annual corporate membership programs. Members benefit from the corporate plan by getting 20 per cent off the regular membership price. Bikes rented at a York station can be returned either on campus or at any of the 625 Bike Share stations across Toronto.

Working in Partnership is one of the six priorities for action identified in the University Academic Plan 2020-25, helping York University to gain vital insights toward creating positive change for its students, campuses and broader communities.

The Bike Share program supports York’s efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 – Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable. In addition, this program helps to uphold the University’s commitment to sustainable transportation and reduce carbon emissions on York’s campuses as the University works toward its goal of carbon neutrality on or before 2049.

To learn more about Bike Share Toronto at York, visit the University’s Bike Share website.

Bike Share comes to York University

Bike share station on York University's Keele campus
Bike share station on York University’s Keele campus.

York University is partnering with Bike Share Toronto and is the first post-secondary institution in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to bring Bike Share onto its campuses.

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Dear colleagues,

York University is pleased to announce a partnership with Bike Share Toronto. York is the first post-secondary institution in the GTA to bring Bike Share Toronto onto its campuses. This exciting partnership brings a healthy, fun and affordable way to get around the campuses and the city.

The University partnered with the City of Toronto to install three Bike Share stations on the Keele and Glendon campuses. Located on the north and south sides of the York University Subway Station on the Keele Campus, and inside the main entrance of the Glendon Campus, these bikes provide an additional and sustainable mode of transportation while further enhancing York’s relationship with the City of Toronto. In addition, there are also Bike Share stations located on Sentinel Road at The Pond Road and at Murray Ross Parkway.

The program provides community members with 24-7 convenient access to bikes and a variety of payment options. Users of the Bike Share program can pay for use of the bikes on a per-ride basis at $3.25 for 30 minutes, purchase multi-day passes or, as members of the York community, take advantage of one of two annual corporate membership programs. Members benefit from the corporate plan by getting 20 per cent off the regular membership price. Bikes rented at a York station can be returned either on campus or at any of the 625 Bike Share stations across Toronto.

The University understands and embraces partnerships – Working in Partnership is one of the six priorities for action identified in the University Academic Plan 2020-25, helping the University to gain vital insights toward creating positive change for our students, our campuses and our broader communities.

The Bike Share program supports York’s efforts to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11 – Make Cities and Human Settlements Inclusive, Safe, Resilient and Sustainable.  In addition, this program helps to uphold the University’s commitment to sustainable transportation and reduce carbon emissions on York’s campuses, as the University works toward its goal of carbon neutrality on or before 2049.

To learn more about Bike Share Toronto at York, please visit the University’s Bike Share website.

Thank you and happy riding,

Anthony Barbisan
Executive Director, Ancillary Services Department
Division of Finance and Administration

Nicole Arsenault
Program Director, Sustainability
Division of Finance and Administration

L’Université York accueille Bike Share Toronto sur ses campus

Cher collègues,

L’Université York est heureuse d’annoncer un partenariat avec Bike Share Toronto. York est le premier établissement postsecondaire de la région du Grand Toronto à accueillir Bike Share Toronto sur ses campus. Ce partenariat offre un moyen sain, amusant et abordable de se déplacer sur les campus et dans la ville.

L’Université s’est associée à la Ville de Toronto pour installer trois stations Bike Share sur les campus Keele et Glendon. Situées sur les côtés nord et sud de la station de métro York University sur le campus Keele et près de l’entrée principale du campus Glendon, ces stations de vélos offrent un mode de transport supplémentaire et durable tout en renforçant la relation entre l’Université York et la Ville de Toronto. D’autres stations Bike Share sont situées sur Sentinel Road (à la hauteur de The Pond Road) et sur Murray Ross Parkway.

Le programme Bike Share offre aux membres de la communauté un accès pratique aux vélos en tout temps, ainsi que diverses options de paiement.  Les utilisateurs du programme peuvent payer à l’usage (3,25 $ pour 30 minutes), acheter des abonnements de plusieurs jours ou, en tant que membres de la communauté de York, profiter de l’un des deux plans d’abonnement collectif. Les membres du plan d’abonnement collectif obtiennent une réduction de 20 % par rapport au prix normal. Les vélos loués à York peuvent être rendus soit sur les campus, soit à l’une des 625 stations de Toronto.

L’Université reconnaît l’importance de tels partenariats et les encourage. Travailler en partenariat est d’ailleurs l’une des six priorités d’intervention inscrites au Plan académique de l’Université 2020-2025, ce qui lui permet d’acquérir des connaissances essentielles afin de créer des changements positifs pour ses étudiants et étudiantes, ses campus et ses communautés.

Le programme Bike Share soutient les efforts de York pour faire avancer l’objectif 11 de développement durable des Nations Unies : Faire en sorte que les villes et les établissements humains soient ouverts à tous, sûrs, résilients et durables.  De plus, ce programme contribue au respect de l’engagement de York envers le transport durable et la réduction des émissions de carbone sur les campus, alors que l’Université s’efforce d’atteindre son objectif de neutralité carbone en 2049 ou plus tôt.

Pour en savoir plus sur Bike Share Toronto à York, veuillez visiter notre site Web.

Merci et bon vélo!

Anthony Barbisan
Directeur principal
Département des services auxiliaires
Division des finances et de l’administration

Nicole Arsenault
Directrice des programmes de durabilité
Division des finances et de l’administration

York instructor Mark Terry’s new documentary to screen at COP26

Iceland mountain under white clouds

York University contract faculty member Mark Terry’s new documentary film, The Changing Face of Iceland, will screen at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 4.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has selected The Changing Face of Iceland, the third instalment in Terry’s trilogy of polar documentaries focusing on the impacts climate change on the island nation of Iceland, as an official Action for Climate Empowerment project under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. As such, it is scheduled for a screening at a two-hour event at COP26.

The Changing Face of Iceland. COP26. Official Screening: Thursday, November 4, 2021, 18:00 to 20:00
Mark Terry
Mark Terry

Terry – a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an associate to the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability at York and a contract faculty member in York’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change – will introduce his film at the event and take questions after the screening. 

The Changing Face of Iceland is a production of the Youth Climate Report, a partner program of the UNFCCC since 2011. The documentary examines the toll climate change has taken on Iceland’s glaciers, land, flora, fauna, fish, economy and people. The film also includes exclusive footage of the recent eruptions of Fagradalsfjall, an active volcano only 40 kilometres from Iceland’s capital, Reykjavík.

The two previous films in the trilogy, The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning (2009) and The Polar Explorer (2011), have been aired on CBC in Canada and released in the U.S. by PBS, as well as screened at past United Nations climate summits.

For further information, contact Terry by email at ycrtv1@gmail.com.

Climate change first on CIFAL York’s agenda

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York is hosting a knowledge-exchange dialogue, Oct. 20 and 21, in preparation for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP26) that begins Oct. 31 in Glasgow, Scotland. As part of this event, there will be a public information webinar at 11 a.m. on Oct. 21.

By Elaine Smith, special contributor

Idil Boran
Idil Boran

CIFAL York is launching its first event, a knowledge-exchange dialogue, to strengthen multilevel action for climate, nature and people. Organized for Oct. 20 and 21, this international technical expert workshop provides the knowledge base for Professor Idil Boran to convene an official side event to the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, to a larger audience in Glasgow, Scotland.

CIFAL centres provide innovative training throughout the world and serve as hubs for the exchange of knowledge among government officials, the private sector, academia and civil society. CIFAL York, which will eventually have its home at the Markham Campus, is led by Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS) Professor Ali Asgary, School of Administrative Studies, with Idil Boran, an associate professor of philosophy (LA&PS) who leads the Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative, an international and interdisciplinary research partnership at York’s Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research.

“Our inaugural event is synchronized with both the UN Biodiversity COP15 (Part 1), held online from Oct. 11 to 15, and the UN Climate Change COP26, held in person in Glasgow from Oct. 31 to Nov. 12, and is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals,” said Boran. Both the biodiversity and climate COPs were to be held in 2020 but had to be postponed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

“We are seeing heightened awareness on these planetary challenges, but the world is far behind on both crises,” Boran said. “Transformative change is needed at the level of policy, practices and mindset. Cities, regions, businesses and governments are making commitments, but what are these commitments? Are they being delivered? What are their impacts? How can they be scaled and elicit more commitments?” Above all, Boran noted, commitments must respect the land rights of Indigenous Peoples.  

Ali Asgary
Ali Asgary

“We’ve invited Canadian and international participants, both researchers and practitioners, to share knowledge and experiences and identify priorities for accelerating and strengthening multilevel joint action for nature and the climate by multiplicity of actors, while delivering the sustainable development goals,” Boran said.

The event’s key message is that climate change is not a singular issue but is deeply interconnected with multiple planetary challenges.

“When we talk about the biodiversity-climate interlinkages, we are also concerned about their impacts on human health, as well as wildlife and environmental health,” Boran said. “The climate and the biodiversity crises share root causes. Climate change worsens biodiversity loss, but protecting the ecosystem, if done right, can help respond to the effects of climate change.”

The knowledge-exchange dialogue is by invitation only, although there will be a public plenary webinar at 11 a.m. on Oct. 21. The other sessions will feature panels for participants and parallel interactive discussion roundtables.

York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton will deliver the event’s opening remarks. There will be a variety of sessions, including one on Indigenous nature stewardship and others dealing with agriculture, food and healthy communities, urban nature-based initiatives, oceans and coastal zones, and methodologies for assessing progress. The workshop will set the foundation for creating a working group toward a deliverable and will kick-start a series of dialogues.

“In addition to showcasing the workshop at COP26, we hope to create a working group with the aim of connecting the work being done locally and regionally to the global process,” Boran said. “Our official event in Glasgow is an opportunity to share the first insights from this workshop.”

This event is organized by CIFAL York with the collaboration of the German Development Institute/Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), based in Bonn Germany, and the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, Imperial College London, based in the U.K., one of the partnering institutions for the side event at COP26 in Glasgow. At York University, event partners are: York International; the Office of Research and Innovation; the UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability; the Synergies of Planetary Health Research Initiative and Lab, with the support of the Dahdaleh Institute for Global Health Research; LA&PS; and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council exchange knowledge-mobilization fund.

“York University is pleased to support CIFAL York’s contributions towards advancing UN SDGs,” said Vice-President Research and Innovation Amir Asif. “York researchers like professors Boran and Asgary are actively exploring planetary climatic and environmental change with particular emphasis on biodiversity, reducing Canada’s overall carbon footprint and building sustainable energy sources of the future. This knowledge-exchange dialogue and the followup official event at the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow helps us in achieving our goal of forging a just and equitable world.”

To register, visit https://hopin.com/events/multi-level-joint-actionfor-climate-nature-and-people.

Learning for a Sustainable Future youth program garners top Clean50 award

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The Virtual Climate Change Youth Forums offered by Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF), a Canadian charity located at York University, empower learners in a warming world and encourage youth to take action on the climate.

Students show off their poster created in a LSF Youth Forum sponsored by RBC
LSF Youth Forum participants show off a poster they created

LSF’s Virtual Climate Change Youth Forums program has been named a recipient of Canada’s Clean50 Top Project award. The annual award recognizes the contributions of projects towards a cleaner, healthier, innovation-based, low-carbon economy supporting all Canadians. Clean50 Top Projects were selected from more than 100 nominees, based on their innovation, their ability to inspire other Canadians to take action and, most importantly, their climate-action impact. 

LSF’s Youth Forums have historically been held as full-day, in-person experiences, but due to the impact of the pandemic, LSF decided to move the Youth Forums online.

“We knew that skipping a year wasn’t an option,” says LSF President and CEO Pamela Schwartzberg, “since students needed access to the skills and knowledge provided in the forums. So, LSF created a multi-component virtual event series offered over a six-week period.

“While creating a new delivery model, LSF also had to accommodate various school board privacy policies, teachers who were new to technology and virtual learning, events covering multiple time zones and a myriad of school schedules, and student learning at home, at school or a combination of both,” says Schwartzberg. “Our new Virtual Youth Forums still build a sense of community and connection among teachers and students from different schools. Most importantly, the forums engaged students in climate change issues, equipped them with skills and knowledge, and empowered them to take action.”

The virtual events dramatically increased LSF’s audience and geographic reach, with 17,600 students from all of Canada’s provinces and territories receiving an opportunity to contribute to the fight against climate change by participating in an Action Project.

LSF is a Canadian charity founded in 1991. Working with businesses, governments, school boards, universities, communities, educators and youth across Canada, LSF’s programs and partnerships are helping students learn to address the increasingly difficult economic, social and environmental challenges of the 21st century. LSF has been located at York University since 1997.

Read about LSF’s Virtual Youth Forums by visiting the Clean50 Top Projects website. Registration is open for upcoming Youth Forums. To learn more, visit the Youth Forums web page.

Buzz-worthy virtual conference devoted to bees

Two honey bees on lavender plants

This year’s BeeCon will explore the effects of human-driven landscape disturbance on wild bee communities, the development of diagnostic tools for neonicotinoid exposure, altruistic and selfish aggression in honey bees and more.

BeeCon is a free, annual, now virtual, bee conference running Oct. 15 and 16 that brings local, national and international bee biologists together to discuss bees, their behaviour, taxonomy, genomics, ecology, and conservation, hosted by the Centre for Bee Ecology, Evolution and Conservation at York University.

The two-day event will feature a keynote at 11am on Oct. 15 by Associate Professor Shalene Jha of the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Texas, Austin, discussing plant-pollinator interactions and ecosystem services in the face of global change.

Below is a selection of some of the many symposium talks, each 15 minutes in length:

Oct. 15

9:30 a.m.  Can green roofs compensate for the loss of (Hymenopteran) biodiversity in cities? – Jeffrey Jacobs of Hasselt University, Belgium

12 p.m. Assessing the impacts of urban beehives on wild bees using individual, population-level, and community level metrics – Hadil Elsayed of York University

2:45 p.m. Effects of Social Status on Aggression in a Facultatively Social Bee Species (Xylocopa virginica) – James Mesich of Brock University

3:45 p.m. Social environment and sibling cooperation in a small carpenter bee – Jesse Huisken of York University

Oct. 16

9 a.m. Holocene population expansion of a tropical bee coincides with early human colonisation of Fiji rather than climate change – James Dorey of Yale University

9:30 a.m. The risks of crop exposure to honey bee colonies – Sarah French of York University

9:45 a.m. The blueberries & the bees: assessing honey bee health stressors using proteomics – Rhonda Thygesen of the University of British Columbia

10:15 a.m. Corpse management in bumblebee colonies – Victoria Blanchard of Royal Holloway, University of London

11:15 a.m. Assessment of habitat use & ecology of native bee communities in tallgrass prairie and oak savanna in Southern Ontario – Janean Sharkey of the University of Guelph

Click here for the schedule of speakers.

To register for Oct. 15, click here and to register for Oct. 16, click here.

UNESCO Chair Charles Hopkins recognized with lifetime achievement award

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York University’s UNESCO Chair Charles Hopkins is the recipient of the Clean50 Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on a global scale to reorient education towards sustainable development. This prestigious award recognizes Hopkins’ focus on creating a better future for all.

Charles Hopkins

Climate challenges facing Canada can not be resolved by anything less than a collaborative, full assault on every element of the problem. Broad solutions are needed. To create holistic strategies for future economies and imagine better ways of living together in Canada and beyond, thought leaders from all sectors of industry, business, academia, the arts and civil society need to be involved.

Canada’s Clean50 award program and annual summit were founded in 2011 by Canada’s leading clean tech and sustainability executive search firm Delta Management Group to bring these sustainability leaders together. In its 10th edition, Canada’s Clean50 Awards celebrate the 2022 top sustainability leaders in Canada. Fifty remarkable and inspiring individuals in 16 different categories as well as emerging leaders, Canadian business and five selected sustainability heroes will be recognized with Lifetime Achievement Awards during this year’s summit, which took place Oct. 1. A record number of nominations were received for this year’s awards.

Charles Hopkins, York University’s UNESCO Chair, received the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for decades of dedicated engagement in reorienting education systems towards sustainable development as well as fostering cross-sector thinking connecting academia with business, industry, the arts and the general public towards a better future for all. As one of the early advocates for place-based and experiential learning as a principal of outdoor schools in Canada during the 1970s and 1980s, his list of involvements is long. He presented to the Brundtland Commission and co-authored Chapter 36 in Agenda 21, the first United Nations implementation plan for a more sustainable future, coming out of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

Since assuming the role of UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability at York in 1999, he has been co-ordinating two global research networks, each active in more than 50 countries: the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions and the #IndigenousESD Network. He is advisor to the Global Network of Regional Centres of Expertise on ESD hosted by the United Nations University’s Institute of Advanced Studies in Sustainability, and co-director of the Asia-Pacific Institute on ESD in Beijing.

As a member of the President´s Sustainability Council at York University and the co-chair of the Knowledge Working Group, Hopkins works to embed the idea of the “university as a whole” moving towards sustainability, placing sustainable development as a theme in the curriculum, rethinking operations, facilities and management practices, and changing the culture on York’s campuses.

As part of its new University Academic Plan 2020-2025, York University articulated its commitment to elevate action on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals and contribute meaningfully to building a better future.