Students Leading Sustainability

ACGreenTeamAC Green Leaders serve as educators in peer-to-peer sustainability outreach at Algonquin College. The AC Green Team is a select group of leaders who work to help share sustainability concepts and a sustainability ethic throughout the campus community. Being an AC Green Leader is a valuable learning experience for students that can deepen their understanding of sustainability while developing their outreach and education skills.

The AC Green Team started in the 2015-2016 academic year running as a pilot program supported under the guidance of the Sustainable Algonquin Steering Committee. The initiative is a part of Algonquin College’s Sustainability Education program. Sustainability Education is financially supported by Algonquin College’s energy services provider, Siemens. Students that participate as volunteer leaders in this program will be eligible to add this to their co-curricular record.

By participating in a wide variety of outreach activities, as well as lending their own unique strengths in areas such as social media and connecting with their peers, AC Green Leaders will:

  • Educate students for sustainability
  • Create awareness of the Algonquin College sustainability vision of: Caring Today, For Tomorrow
  • Support energy awareness and energy conservation behaviours within student population
  • Support waste and recycling awareness and behaviour change within student population
  • Support responsible water consumption and reduced ecological impact within student population
  • Instill positive mindset relating to empowerment, innovation and change relating to climate change, social justice, biodiversity, community resilience issues

Applications for 2018-2019 academic year now being accepted

Students interested in volunteering 1-5 hours per week over a 6-week period (October -November and January/February-March) are invited to submit an application to join the 2018-2019 AC Green Team.

To apply, please send the following to: ATTN: AC Green Team, sustainability@algonquincollege.com:

  1. Your Full Name, program of Study, Student ID, Availability (days & times)
  2. Provide brief answers to the following questions on why you want to be involved:
  • Why you want to be involved? (200 words max.)
  • The strengths you will bring to the team? (100 words max.)
  • What sustainability topics are you interested in? (100 words max.)
  • What you would like to get out of the program in the way of your skill and knowledge development? (100 words max.)