Blogs about GTEC's Climate Distress Services and Education

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Image of view you may see while on a wilderness vigil

Inspiration for the Beleaguered

By Scott Lawrance and Tara Souch Unprecedented. A word for these times. Pandemic, heat dome, catastrophic flooding, wildfires, and now the Emergency Measures Act. Yes, and is not each moment ...
/ climate change, lifestyle, sustainability
Student Voices

Student Voices

As the Executive Director of the Green Technology Education centre I am delighted to introduce the Student Voices series of blogs. This series provides an opportunity for high school students ...
Life on Low Heat

Life On Low Heat

By Markella from Richmond, BCIt is well-known that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out. If you gently place a frog into ...
What is Sustainability to me?

What is sustainability to me?

By Jenna from Richmond, BCWhat is sustainability? Sustainability means obtaining and acquiring our own needs, by encouraging humans to interact with the environment in a way that ensures that there ...
What is Sustainability

How do I Try to Be a More Sustainable Person

By Ashwin from Richmond, BCAccording to the Cambridge Dictionary the definition of sustainability is “the quality of being able to continue over a period of time”. I have made lots ...
demonstrating the 3 R's by recycling plastic waste

Using the 3 R’s to be Sustainable

Isabella from Richmond As the worldwide population increases, it is inevitable that waste will continue to pile up and pollute our environment, that’s why it is so important to implement ...
The Future of AI in Canada

Excerpted from: The Future of AI in Canada

In the spring of 2021 GTEC partnered with Lunge Systems in developing an AI mediated application that GTEC used to deliver an online educational program about the electrification of transportation ...
Doctors for Planetary Health demonstrate at the BC Legislature Nov 4, 2021

Doctors for Planetary Health at the BC Legislature

Photo by @arvinoutside Introduction by Arden Henley On Thursday November 4th Doctors for Planetary Health held a rally on the steps of the BC Legislature. Below is the text of ...
Justin Brower and Gavin Phillips participants of the GenZ Goes Electric program pilot

GTEC Goes Electric Again

In the spring of this year GTEC delivered an online program for youth called GenZ Goes Electric. The goals of the program were to inform young people about the electrification ...
Environmental Youth Alliance Rewilding Still Creek: youth-led habitat restoration

Rewilding Still Creek: youth-led habitat restoration

Youth from the Environmental Youth Alliance have been contributing to the ongoing restoration of native habitat along Vancouver and Burnaby’s Still Creek. This is part of a three year project ...