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David Suzuki Foundation Future Ground Prize
We are honoured and proud to be a finalist for the 2022 Future Ground Prize presented by the David Suzuki Foundation!
The Future Ground Prize highlights existing youth-led initiatives in Ontario and British Columbia that have a positive impact on the environment and their local communities. The Future Ground Prize aims to celebrate and uplift these inspiring projects!
We appreciate all of your votes, as this prize will help fund and support our ongoing programs!
National Observer
How to look good without wrecking the planet
As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews fashion lover Sophia Yang, who advocates for transformation in the industry.
UBC Faculty of Forestry Branchlines
From forest to fiber to fabric to fashion, Sophia Yang BSc (Nat Res Cons) 2019 has created a career where, as she says, “I have finally found my voice”.
As the Founder and Executive Director of Threading Change, a non-profit organization working to reduce the environmental and humanitarian impacts of fashion, Sophia is stitching together many of the issues that have energized her since her teen years.
Paris Generation Equality Forum side event: Feminist Youth Will Not be Left Behind
Decolonizing and re-imagining the Leave No One Behind (LNOB) pledge of the 2030 Agenda.
The event will act as a platform for powerful stories from youth in British Columbia, Canada, who face compounding and intersecting barriers that they resist, challenge, and overcome through their intersectional feminist research and advocacy. The event aims to highlight the agency and resilience of youth from marginalized communities as they choose to challenge harmful and discriminatory intersectional gendered social norms, practices, and policies in their communities—while empowering other youth to do the same.
Four Fridays in May: Climate Solutions for Leaders
Join emerging climate action leaders to explore a solutions-oriented and creative communications approach to climate action.
The PICS supported series is offered over four sessions in May, once a week. You will hear stories from the frontlines of GHG emissions reduction in transportation, energy conservation, green streets and waste reduction. Learn what engagement strategies work, how the project narrative is shaped and reflect on lessons for your own community-based climate action. Handout materials will be provided for each session.
Announcing Round 4 Social Innovation Seed Fund Winners
RADIUS is excited to announce Cycle 6, Round 4 recipients of the Social Innovation Seed Funding available to SFU students in partnership with Embark Sustainability.
These innovative teams are working to amplify conversations around Vancouver’s Black community, ethical fashion, women in tech, and barriers to employment. With this last round of winners, we complete the Social Innovation Seed Fund’s 2019/2020 cycle!
Welcoming Labs Batch 6 to the League of Innovators Community
Young people across Canada are tackling a wide array of problems across industries through entrepreneurial acumen.
What we do in the League of Innovators Labs program is accelerate the founders and their respective startups over the 12 weeks of virtual programming and beyond. It takes a village to move the next generation forward, but it is oh so worth it. With that in mind, meet the 30 youth-led startups joining the League of Innovators Community through Labs Batch 6!
