Sustainability Success Stories
Title of the Project : Creating
an Action Plan for Climate Change
Description of the Project :
Participants will be provided with the opportunity to develop an action plan in
lessening climate change and reducing air pollution in their community, school
or at home. Participating schools will also have an opportunity to showcase
their projects at a citizen and/or youth forum at the 2002 Smog Summit.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : developing an
action plan
Contact
Information :
Name :
Lorraine Fung
Title : Health Promotion Consultant
Affiliation : Toronto Public Health
Address : 277 Victoria Street, 7th Floor,
Toronto, Ont., M5B 1W2
Phone : (416) 338-8078
Fax : (416)
392-7418
E-mail : Lfung@city.toronto.on.ca
Title of the Project : Build
your own natural water filter
Description of the Project :
Participants are taught how to build a natural water filter for their schools
that is similar to the ones used by the City in their water filtration plants.
Participants will be supplied with materials to build their own natural water
filter and test the filter using muddy water.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : how to clean
water
Contact
Information :
Name : Mark
Cooper
Title :Public Information Officer
Affiliation : City of Toronto, Public Works Department
Address : 55 John St. Toronto, Ont., M5V 3C6
Phone : (416) 392-3566
Fax : (416) 392-2974
E-mail : mcooper@city.toronto.on.ca
Title of the Project : Pollution Watch
Description of the Project :
Participants will learn about tools they can use to reduce chemical pollution
in their communities and explore how they can use an interactive website called
Pollution Watch.
Contact
Information :
Name : Corey
Diamond
Affiliation : The Canadian Institute for Environmental
Law and Policy
Phone : (416) 923-3529
Title of the Project : Banning
the use of Pesticides
Description of the Project : Participants
will learn how to develop a successful campaign strategy using the issue/debate
of whether or not Toronto City Council or York Region should adopt a pesticide
by-law. Participants will learn how to build a campaign from the grassroots to
council chambers. A mock political debate will help participants see both sides
of the debate.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : Policy
Development, Environmental By-Laws
Contact
Information :
Name : Katrina
Miller
Title : Pesticide Campaigner
Affiliation : Toronto Environmental Alliance
Address : 30 Duncan Street, Suite 201, Toronto, M5V
2L3
Phone : (416) 596-0660
Fax : (416) 596-0345
E-mail : katrina@torontoenvironment.org
Web site : www.torontoenvironment.org
Key
Partners : York Region Environmental
Alliance
Title of the Project : Clean
Air Action Plans
Description
of the Project : Participants
will be walked through a step-by-step guide that will help their schools or
community groups organize a clean air project with a clear vision and
achievable goals. Participants will explore a variety of project options
related to curbing air pollution. They will also discuss realistic action
project goal setting, identify available resources, and explore techniques to
communicate with local media, government representatives and the public. The
workshop will emphasize how to measure a project’s success so that it can be
improved and celebrated.
Contact
Information :
Name : Jarah
West and Rob Johnson
Title : Clean Air project co-ordinator
Affiliation : Friends of the Rouge Watershed
Address : 2259 Meadowvale Road, Scarborough, Ont., M1X
1R2
Phone : (416) 208-0252
Fax : Same (please call first)
E-mail : robjohnson@frw.on.ca and jarahwest@frw.on.ca
Title of the Project : Temagami: Forest Activism at Work
Description of the Project :
This workshop focusses on logging in Temagami, the world’s largest remaining
intact red and white pine forests. The workshop will focus on how residents of
the GTA can effect what goes on in Temagami and have a stake in this publicly
owned resource. Participants will learn
how to plan an advocacy campaign using the media, fellow students and the
general public.
Skill or
Issue Addressed :how to
organize an advocacy/activist campaign
Contact
Information :
Name : Josh Matlow
Title : Wilderness Campaigner
Affiliation : Earthroots
Address : 401 Richmond St. W., Suite 410, Toronto,
Ont., M5V 3A8
Phone : (416) 599-0152
Fax : (416) 340-2429
E-mail : josh@earthroots.org
Web site : www.earthroots.org
Description of the Project :
Tackle the challenges of smog, traffic congestion, and sprawl by learning and
applying key skills in creative problem solving and innovation. Participants of
the workshop are invited to look at the way we get from door-to-door and the
impacts of our movement on the environment, community and economy. Participants
will also have the opportunity to reinvent and promote cleaner and greener
options for transportation and community design.
Contact
Information :
Name : Janet Lo
Title : Project Manager
Affiliation : The Network of Excellence for Sustainable Transportation (NEST)
Phone : (416) 338-5086
E-mail : jlo1@city.toronto.on.ca
Title of the Project : Sustainable
Building
Description
of the Project : Participants
will learn about buildings, their impacts on our communities, and opportunities
to transform the built environment in the GTA. An opportunity to build a straw
bale wall and learn about building retrofits will be provided.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : critical
thinking, empowerment to develop appropriate responses to concerns, project
design and implementation and measurement of progress
Contact
Information :
Name : Scott Pegg
Title : Recent
Graduate
Affiliation : Faculty of Environmental Studies, York
University
E-mail : spegg@eco-way.com
Title of the Project : Waste Diversion, What’s in it for you? Recycling-Waste
Management
Description of the Project :
Participants will gain a firsthand experience of what is in a garbage can by
conducting a waste audit. By sorting
garbage, participants will learn to identify issues, sources, and solutions for
the GTA’s garbage crisis. Participants will learn how they can make a
difference at home and at school.
Contact
Information :
Name :
Mieke Foster
Title : Recycling Coordinator
Affiliation : Toronto District School Board
Phone : (416) 395-4147
E-mail : mieke.foster@tdsb.on.ca
Description of the Project :
The workshop will detail Malvern Collegiate’s experiences implementing the
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority’s Aquatic Plants Programme. This programme addresses the need to create
or rehabilitate wetlands in the GTA. Classes receive all the materials,
Including seeds, to grow emergent plants (i.e. cattails and bulrushes). Seedlings are planted by students in a
wetland area that is at the school, or nearby.
Where this is not appropriate, seedlings can be donated back to the TRCA
for a planting programme.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : this program
addresses the need to create or rehabilitate wetlands in the GTA
Contact
Information :
Name : Leesa
Blake
Title :
Teacher
Affiliation : Malvern Collegiate Institute
Address : 55 Malvern Ave., Toronto, Ont., M4E 3E4
Phone : (416) 469-0098
E-mail : Leesa.Blake@stel.tdsb.on.ca
Key
Partners : Toronto Region Conservation
Authority
Title of the Project : Learning Grounds: School Ground Naturalization
Description of the Project :
Students, teachers and neighbours are working to transform concrete school
grounds into natural “outdoor classrooms”. Through Evergreen’s National Grants
and Awards of Excellence, schools can apply for funding and resources to
support their naturalization projects. Evergreen’s print and video resources
help guide schools through the process of implementing a project and provide
case study books of successful projects. Over 1600 school ground naturalization
projects have been implemented across Canada as a result of Evergreen’s
support. Participants will have the
opportunity to learn about a variety of naturalization projects that have been
implemented across the country.
Contact
Information :
Name : Wendy Heron
Title : Senior Project Manager
Affiliation : Evergreen
Address : 355 Adelaide St. W., 5th
Floor, Toronto, Ont., M5V 1S2
Phone : (416) 596-1495 #27
Fax : (416) 596-1443
E-mail : wheron@evergreen.ca
Web site : www.evergreen.ca
Title of the Project : Measuring your ecological footprint
Description of the Project :
With a current population of about 5.0 million, the GTA is one of the fastest
growing urban regions in North America. As we continue to grow, we require more
energy, better and faster transportation, more material goods and services,
more food, more living space, more jobs, industry, recreation and more waste
assimilation capacity. If we consider
that current projections show that over the next 25 years populations within
the GTA will increase by over two million people, understanding how much nature
we have and how much we will need in the future becomes a critical planning
question. City of Toronto will deliver a workshop on the
Ecological Footprint, an ecological accounting tool that provides an overall
picture of just how much of nature’s capital we need to sustain our lifestyles.
Participants will have an opportunity to calculate their personal footprint.
Contact
Information :
Name : Eric Krause
Affiliation : City of Toronto
Phone : (416) 392-2984
E-mail : ekraus@city.toronto.on.ca
Web site : www.rco.on.ca/ecofootprint.html or
http:/www.city.toronto.on.ca/energy/howbig.htm
Title of the Project : A creative approach to environmental health promotion
Description of the Project :
An interactive, multimedia presentation will focus on the link between human
health and environmental health. Participants will learn how to think out of
the box when it comes to promoting environmental health and will be able to
take away posters and fliers that they themselves will create.
Contact
Information :
Name : Lynn Fairweather
Affiliation : Women’s’ Healthy Environment Network
Phone : (416) 928-0880
E-mail : When@web.ca
Title of the Project : Making Business Green
Description of the Project : CH2M
Hill will show how they are changing
their business practices to incorporate Sustainable Development. Participants
will examine an array of skills that are useful in influencing businesses to
adopt more sustainable practices (i.e. purchasing power, letter writing, etc), and will participate in a variety of
lobbying scenarios.
Contact
Information :
Name : Frances Wilbur
Affiliation : CH2M HILL Canada Limited
Phone : (416) 499-0090 #213
E-mail : fwilbur@ch2m.com
Title of the Project : Mountain Equipment Co-op: Creating A Sustainability Policy
Description of the Project :
This workshop will showcase Mountain Equipment Co-op’s (MEC) various in-store sustainable business
practices. MEC is currently working on a new sustainability policy, and for the
first time are making it available to staff and members to give feedback and
suggestions. This workshop will focus on MEC experiences developing their
in-store sustainability practices and how these practices relate to every day
business.( i.e.: waste audits, building materials, rooftop garden, recycling
and composting, etc.) MEC staff will provide participants will insights about
opportunities and barriers that must be addressed in the planning stage of
project implementation.
Contact
Information :
Name : David
Robinson, James Vasilyev, Dushan Jojkic,
Title : Social and Environmental Co-ordinator (David)
Affiliation : Mountain Equipment Co-op
Address : 400 King St. W., Toronto, Ont. M5V 1K2
Phone : (416) 340-2667
Fax : (416) 340-7708
E-mail : jvasilyev@mec.ca
Title of the Project : The
Global Web
Description of the Project :
Our choices as consumers have a huge impact around the world. Terrorism,
sweatshops, child and slave labour, poverty, pollution and the depletion of our
natural resources are some of the costs of “business as usual.” But our voices
and our dollars can make a difference. Ten Thousand Villages will be delivering
a workshop about the successes of fair trade alternatives, and some of the
other ways we can fight for our people and our planet.
Contact
Information :
Name :Elaine Pequegnat
Title : Manager
Affiliation :
Ten Thousand Villages
Address : 2599 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ont., M4P 2K1
Phone (416) 932-1673
Fax : (416) 932-1848
E-mail : toronto@villages.com
Web site : www.tenthousandvillages.com
Title of the Project : Exploring how art and drama techniques can be used to enhance community
safety
Description of the Project :
Participants will be lead through a workshop on naming, strategizing and
communicating around conflict issues that effect community life. Art and drama
techniques will be explored as a platform for taking action. Participants will
have a chance to express key safety issues in their community and develop
strategies for change.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : involving
youth in naming and expressing key safety isssues and strategy making in the
community, using art and drama techniques to engage
Contact
Information :
Name : Alan Richardson and Sandra Crockard
Title :Co-directors
Affiliation : Trinity Theatre Studio
Address : 1503 Danforth Ave., Toronto, Ont., M4J 5C3
Phone : (416) 421-4888
Fax : (416) 406-2011
E-mail : contact@trinitytheatrestudio.com
Title of the Project : Media Literacy
Description
of the Project : The workshop
will provide youth with practical ideas on how to play an active (versus
passive) role in their interaction with media
Contact
Information :
Name : Dalton
Higgins
Title : Writer and pop culture observer.
Affiliation : Independent
Phone : (416) 657-1314
E-mail : daltonhiggins@hotmail.com
Title of the Project : Environmental Racism
Description
of the Project : OPIRG is
a student funded, volunteer-based
organization at the University of Toronto which promotes and engages in action,
education and research on a wide range of social justice and environmental
issues. There is a great deal of
opportunity to build a wide range of skills while working for meaningful social
change. Social Justice, Environmental Justice, what is the relationship? How do
they converge, and diverge from one another? This workshop will explore these
issues and themes by providing strategies and a space for individuals to
discuss and hash out concerns.
Contact
Information :
Name : Patricia Lee
Affiliation : The Ontario Public Interest Research
Group
Phone : (416) 978-7770
E-mail : opirg_to@hotmail.com
Title of the Project : Your City, Your Future
Description of the Project :
A success story workshop on political literacy will be presented. Participants
will learn about the Toronto Youth Cabinet’s successes, their relationship with
City government and explore the issues, strategies and barriers that they have
faced. Participants will engage in a
series of hands-on, orientation scenarios to explore how to create change.
Contact
Information :
Name : Ange Kinnear
Title : Toronto Youth Cabinet Co-ordinator
Affiliation : Toronto Youth Cabinet
Phone : (416) 392-4927
E-mail : Youthcabinet@city.toronto.on.ca
Title of the Project : Getting Answers from your government
Description of the Project :
Participants will gain a better understanding of the three levels of
government: municipal, provincial and federal, and how to get involved.
Participants will learn where to go for information and how to get answers from
your government.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : understanding
the 3 levels of government, how to get involved and where to go for information
Contact
Information :
Name :Frank DeJong
Title : Leader
Affiliation : The Green Party of Ontario
Address : 244 Gerrard St. E., Toronto, Ont., M5A 2G2
Phone : (416) 533-6798
E-mail : fdejong@greenparty.on.ca
Title of the Project : Homeless Makers
Description of the Project :
Homelessness is caused by deliberate decisions made by governments, businesses
and communities. What are the homeless-making processes in my community? Who
are the homeless-makers? The National Homelessness and Housing Network will guide participants
through an analysis of the underlying causes of homelessness in the GTA, and
will explore some effective responses.
Using a practical worksheet, we'll answer these questions and identify skills
and responses to challenge the homeless-makers! An emphasis will be placed on
political advocacy skills.
Contact
Information :
Name : Michael Shapcott
Affiliation : Co-operative Housing Federation of
Canada/National Homelessness and Housing Network
Phone : (416) 533-6798
E-mail : mshapcott@chfc.ca
Title of the Project : FoodShare Toronto’s Policy Recommendations to Make the GTA Food Secure
in the 21st Century
Description of the Project :
For more than 17 years FoodShare Toronto has been developing programs to
improve people’s access to affordable, healthy food --- from field to table.
These programs include community gardens, student nutrition, and the Good Food
Box. In 1998 FoodShare published a report of 28 policy recommendations, which
if implemented would ensure that Ontario would have a future in which hunger
would be reduced, healthy food would be promoted, and farmers would have a
sustainable future. Participants will have an opportunity to analyze their
current food system and examine the interconnection between problems of hunger,
health crisis caused by the current food system and the crisis in agriculture.
We will then look to some potential solutions to these problems at the
individual, community, and social policy level.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : how to
analyze individual, community and social food insecurity
Contact
Information :
Name : Debbie Field
Title : Executive Director
Affiliation :
FoodShare Toronto
Address : 238 Queen Street W. M5V 1Z7
Phone : (416) 392-1657
Fax : (416) 392-6650
E-mail : debbie@foodshare.net
Title of the Project : Community gardening: Community Building through Problem Solving,
working together for a common goal
Description of the Project :
Community gardens help to build strong communities and civic participation,
while also providing the opportunity to grow food, connect with nature, get
some physical activity, and have social interaction with people in your
neighbourhood. Gardens can turn acquaintances into friends. FoodShare Toronto
will lead workshop participants through role playing scenarios and deliver a
workshop on community gardening.
Skill or
Issue Addressed :community
building through problem solving, working together for a common shared goal
Contact
Information :
Name : Laura Berman
Title : Community Garden Program Co-ordinator
Affiliation :
FoodShare Toronto
Address : 238 Queen St. W., Toronto, Ont., M5V 1Z7
Phone : (416) 392-1668
Fax : (416) 392-6650
E-mail : laura@foodshare.net
Title of the Project : Cool Schools Program
Description of the Project :
The Clean Air Partnership (CAP) an initiative of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund,
will deliver a workshop about the “Cool Schools” programme, which provides
grants of up to $2000 to schools to implement projects which involve students,
staff and community in solutions to enhance their local environment. CAP is interested in funding projects that
promote alternative transportation options to and from school, enhance school
ground green space, introduce energy conservation and renewable energy, and
incorporate climate change into the curriculum. Participants will learn how to
write proposals and develop an effective fundraising strategy to support their
action projects.
Contact
Information :
Name : Katherine Wood
Title : Toronto Atmospheric Fund Cool Schools
Coordinator
Affiliation :
The Clean Air Partnership
Phone : (416) 392-0444
Title of the Project : Beachwatch Patrol- Youth in Action
Description of the Project :
Members of Toronto Environmental Alliance’s
Beachwatch Patrol will talk
about their experiences participating in the summer Beachwatch Patrol, what
they learned, and how they stayed involved while back at school. Participants
will learn about how household practices can effect water quality and beach
closures, and will help the Patrol make a list of Beach clean-up activities for
this year’s programme.
Contact
Information :
Name : Katarina Savinova and Kale Broadhagen
Title : Beach Watch Patrol
Affiliation :
Toronto Environmental Alliance
Address : 30 Duncan St., Suite 201, Toronto, Ont., M5V
2C3
Phone : (416) 596-0660
Fax : (416) 596-0345
E-mail : kale@torontoenvironment.org
Web site : www.torontoenvironment.org
Description
of the Project : Participants
will learn how to start a schoolyard naturalization project. Friends of the Rouge Watershed have
successfully naturalized many schoolyards in the Rouge watershed by changing
traditional mowed grass schoolyards into ecological niches and learning
centres. Participants will learn techniques to assist in site preparation,
species selection and site maintenance,
as well as fundraising skills.
Contact
Information :
Name : Jarah West and Rob Johnson
Title : Projects Director (Rob)
Affiliation : Friends of the Rouge Watershed
Address : 2259 Meadowvale Road
Phone : (416) 208-0252
Fax : Same (please call ahead)
E-mail : robjohnson@frw.on.ca
Title of the Project : Students monitoring for change
Description of the Project :
In this joint success story, students from the Scarborough Academy for
Technological, Environmental and Computer Studies (SATEC) will share their
experiences in the Changing Currents environmental monitoring program launched
in Fall 2001 by Citizens’
Environment Watch (CEW). Students will
present the results of their activities in water and air quality monitoring,
including their field work, data analysis and action plans to improve their
local and regional environments.
Teachers from SATEC and CEW staff will also share their insights on
implementing the program. By attending
this session, participants will have an opportunity to see firsthand how they
can assess, communicate and take action on local and regional water and air
quality issues.
Contact
Information :
Name : Michelle Barraclough
Title : Teacher
Affiliation :
Scarborough Academy for Technological, Environmental and Computer
Studies
Phone : (416) 978-4144
Key
Partners : Citizens Environment Watch
Title of the Project : Saving the World in 40 hours, or as a Coop student!
Description of the Project :
Participants will explore how students can use their community service hours or
a coop term to plan and implement projects within their school and community to
conserve energy, reduce waste and foster environmentally friendly behaviors.
Skills to be examined include project planning, public speaking, advocacy
skills, and determination.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : project
planning, public speaking, advocacy skills
Contact
Information :
Name : Beth Parks and Katie Gad
Title : Project Facilitators, Students for
Sustainability
Affiliation : Department of Environmental Education,
Toronto District School Board
Address : 5050 Yonge St., Toronto, Ont., M2N 5N8
Phone : (416) 395-4922
Fax : (416) 395-4932
E-mail : beth.parks@ntel.tdsb.on.ca
Title of the Project : School participation in urban planning
Description
of the Project : This workshop
will outline how a group of Grade Eleven students at Sutton District High
School participated in creating a sustainable plan for their community. We will
look at how the students participated, what links there were to the curriculum
in Geomatics (grade 11), what links/possibilities exist in other subject areas
(i.e. Civics) and what the outcomes of the project were. Students and teachers will be given an
opportunity to explore their own ideas on what makes a sustainable community,
and through the idea of forecasting and backcasting, how that vision might be
achieved.
Curriculum
connections :
Grade Level(s) : 11
Subject Area(s):Geomatics, Civics
Contact
Information :
Name : Anne Henry
Title : Teacher
Affiliation :
Sutton District High School
Address : 20798 Dalton Rd., Sutton, Ont., L0E 1R0
Phone : (905) 722-3281
Fax : (905) 722-8892
E-mail : Anne_Henry@edu.yorku.ca
Title of the Project : Rethinking Recycling in Schools: Moving from Student/ Teacher
Initiatives to Structural Transformation
Description of the Project :
This workshop will address recycling programmes in schools. Participants will
learn how to access community resources and funding for recycling, develop
strategies for long-term success, and examine the possibilities for long-term
success and real change through political awareness and action.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : learning how
to access community resources and funding for recycling, developing strategies
for long term success and real change through political awareness and action
Contact
Information :
Name : Peter Petrasek and Michele Root
Title : Teachers
Affiliation :Cardinal Newman High School
Address : 2675 Kingston Rd., Scarborough, Ont., M1M
1M2
Phone : (416) 393-5519
Fax : (416) 393-5110
E-mail : peter.petrasek@tcdsb.org
Key
Partners : Notre Dame High School, St.
Dominic Savio Elementary
Title of the Project : Success Story: The Restoration of Black Creek
Description of the Project :
Chaminade College Catholic Secondary School
will showcase their accomplishments over the past four years performing
erosion control work on Black Creek, and raising Brown Trout and Atlantic
Salmon in their own Fish Hatchery.
Contact
Information :
Name : Robert Giza
Title : Teacher
Affiliation : Chaminade College Catholic Secondary
School
Address : 490 Queen’s Drive, Toronto, Ont., M6L 1M8
Phone : (416) 393-5509
Fax : (416) 397-6093
Title of the Project : Think globally, act locally
Description of the Project :
The success story about how St. Mary’s collect used books, toys, Christmas
cards, clothing, stamps, etc. to be
reused both in the GTA and abroad will
be presented. Skills to be examined include how to raise awareness, and
mobilize and activate a community into concrete plans. By networking with the
local community, participants will learn that it is possible to have a global
effect.
Skill or
Issue Addressed : Raising
awareness, mobilizing and activating a community into concrete plans.
Contact
Information :
Name : Steve De Quintal
Title : Teacher
Affiliation :
St. Mary’s Catholic Secondary
Address : 66 Dufferin Park Ave., Toronto, Ont., M6H
1J6
Phone : (416) 393-5528
Fax : (416) 393-5998
E-mail : sdequintal@oise.utoronto.ca
Title of the Project : The Black Creek Project and Archbishop Romero Secondary School
Description
of the Project : Workshop
participants will learn about Archbishop Romero’s water quality monitoring
programme, and conservation efforts to clean up the Black Creek and reduce
waste in their school. Participants will learn interesting science experiments
that can be used to monitor the environment and how to plan their own recycling
and clean-up projects.
Contact
Information :
Name : John Rawski
Title : Teacher
Affiliation :
Archbishop Romero Catholic Secondary
Address : 99 Humber Blvd., Toronto, Ont., M6L 2H4
Phone : (416) 393-5555 #81672
Fax : (416) 393-5010
Title of the Project : Solar Panels provide extra electricity to King City Secondary
Description
of the Project : King City
Secondary School will showcase their school project in which solar panels
installed in the school roof feed into the building’s electricity supply. (The
solar panels were provided and installed by what was once Ontario Hydro
Generation.) The power generated also operates the pump for the man made pond located
on school grounds. The pond is part of
an ongoing yearly effort to naturalize the school grounds. King City students will share how they have
assisted with this ongoing project at their school.
Curriculum
connections :
Grade Level(s) : 10
Subject Area(s): Science
Strand/Theme(s): Earth and Space, Gr. 11 Physics :
energy, Gr. 11 Science : human impact on the environment
Contact
Information :
Name : Kathleen Hewitt
Title : Teacher
Affiliation :
King City Secondary School
Address : 2001 King Rd., King City, Ont., L7B 1K2
Phone : (905) 833-5332
Fax : (905) 833-3750
E-mail : paddlewithadrian@sympatico.ca
Key
Partners : Ontario Power Generation
Title of the Project : International Innovations Projects, at U of T
Description of the Project :
Students of Malvern Collegiate will deliver a success story workshop on their
The International Innovation Project which focuses on using applied natural
technologies to build environmental understanding and improve building
quality. This programme is a
collaboration of high school students with university researchers. New
environmentally friendly technology is developed to help improve air quality in
the school. Students at the school,
monitor and test the effectiveness of the technology and prepare a report to be
submitted for publication.
Contact
Information :
Name : Leesa Blake
Title : Teacher
Affiliation :
Malvern Collegiate Institute
Address : 55
Malvern Ave., Toronto, Ont., M4E 3E4
Phone : (416) 393-1480 #20096
E-mail : Leesa.Blake@stel.tdsb.on.ca
Title of the Project : Earth Week Tree-Planting
Description
of the Project : During Earth
Week 2002, environment club advisor, and recipient of the 2001 Rouge Park
Award, Terry Tamblyn will lead 200 Thornlea S.S. staff and students on a
semi-annual tree-planting along the Rouge River. In recent years, Terry and his environment club have successfully
raised over $30,000 and planted over 5000 trees. The environment club actively promotes the motto « Think globally, Act locally »,
raising environmental awareness within the school community.
Curriculum
connections :
Grade Level(s) : Grade 10
Subject Area(s) : Science
Strand/Theme(s) : The Sustainability of Ecosystems
(succession, carbon cycle, soil fertrility, human impact and responsibility,
protecting Canada’s ecosystems).
Contact
Information :
Name : Terry Tamblyn
Title :
Department Head
Affiliation :
Thornlea Secondary School Environment Club
Address : 8075 Bayview Ave.
Thornhill, Ontario
L3T 4N4
Phone : (905) 889-9696 #188
Fax : (905) 889-2991
E-mail : mr_vlach@hotmail.com
Title of the Project : Sustainable
Activities in the Denison Community
Description
of the Project : Action plans
include a woodlot and wetland study, road crossing naturalization and
harvesting of invasive species.
Curriculum
connections :
Grade Level(s) : Grades 9 to OAC
Subject Area(s) :
Geography
Strand/Theme(s) : Human/Environmental Interactions
Contact
Information :
Name : Gord Hunter
Title : Teacher
Affiliation : Dr. John M. Denison Secondary School
Address : 135 Bristol Rd., Newmarket, Ont., L3Y 8J7
Phone : (905) 836-0021
Fax : (905)
836-7728
E-mail : Gordhunt@enoreo.on.ca
Key
Partners : Regional Municipality of York,
Ministry of Natural Resources, Yorkland Stewardship Council.
Title of the Project : City
of Toronto’s Annual Enviro Festival
Description
of the Project : Each year
this event is held during EarthWeek.
Pre-registered students and their teachers are invited to attend the
event at Nathan Phillip’s Square.
Static and interactive displays are set up that address Sustainability
as it pertains to Air, Water, Soil and Energy.
Curriculum
connections :
Grade Level(s) : Grades 4-6
Subject Area(s) :
Science
Strand/Theme(s) : Life systems, energy and control,
government and energy conservation, Aboriginal wisdom, culture and the
environment, matter and materials, energy and control.
Contact
Information :
Name : Eva Boyd
Title : Community Outreach Coordinator
Affiliation : City of Toronto
Address : 16th Floor, Metro Hall
Toronto, Ontario
M5V 3C6
Phone : (416)
338-5489
Fax : (416) 392-9317
E-mail : eboyd@city.toronto.on.ca
Web site :www.city.toronto.on.ca
Key
Partners : Toronto District School Board,
Toronto Catholic District School Board, Toronto and Region Conservation
Authority.
Title of the Project : Toronto
Environmental Volunteers
Description
of the Project : City of
Toronto residents can participate in hands on projects and programs supported
by the Toronto Works department.
Originating as the Waste Watchers Program, over 500 volunteers have now
expanded their volunteer efforts to include projects which address: stormwater
pollution, drinking water quality, water efficiency, energy conservation, air
quality, composting, recycling and waste reduction. Volunteers receive training prior to involvement in a
project.
Contact Information :
Name : Mary
Lovett
Title :
Coordinator of Toronto Environmental Volunteers
Affiliation : City of Toronto, Works and Emergency
Services
Address : 19th Floor, Stn. 1180
55 John St., Toronto, Ontario
Phone : (416) 392-4697
Fax : (416) 392-4754
E-mail : mlovett@city.toronto.on.ca or tevwes@city.toronto.on.ca
Web site : www.city.toronto.on.ca/tevwes
Key
Partners : Schools, community, local
government.