College Initiative: Blue Dot Campus Challenge 2016 Winners
Posted on Monday, April 4th, 2016
What is the Blue Dot campaign? Click on the image above for a video introduction.
A team effort has resulted in Algonquin College’s first win in the David Suzuki Foundation Blue Dot Campus Challenge!
In February and March, students from the student club Earth Allies, were joined by Environmental Studies professors as well as students in the General Arts and Science Year II Community Engagement course in hosting information tables across campus to get signatures on the Blue Dot petition.
At the close of the Blue Dot Campus Challenge, the team had secured 1032 signatures, more than any other 14 Canadian post-secondary educational institution competing in the challenge!
This success has earned these students the honour of a Skype call directly with David Suzuki where they asked their most burning questions relating to environmental policy in Canada.
The questions they posed to the elder statesman:
“Do you believe the new commitment and investment made by the federal government in the budget are steps in the right direction to afford the same environmental rights to those living on first nations and in northern communities as the rest of Canadians?”
“During your most recent interview with Peter Mansbridge, you said that the reason environmentalism has failed is because human beings have not fundamentally changed the way they see themselves in the world. Now, we realize that things have the potential to get much worse for us if inaction persists. With that being said, do you believe that enshrining environmental rights into the charter of rights and freedoms is an effective way to bring about change in the 21st century?”
Groups leading initiative: Earth Allies Student Club, AC Green Team, General Arts and Science
For more information, contact:
Algonquin College
613-727-4723
info@algonquincollege.com