Learning for a Sustainable Future Jack Layton Award for Youth Action in Sustainability Award Presentation at the 11th Annual ESD Symposium – Oct 16, 2012 Learning for a Sustainable Future (LSF) established the LSF Jack Layton Award for Youth Action in Sustainability to honour Jack Layton’s passion for optimism and hope in creating a more sustainable future. Recipients of the LSF Jack Layton Award for Youth Action in Sustainability have responded to community challenges with creativity, responsible citizenship and innovative ...Read more
Nov. 19th, 2012
Exceptional Teacher Across Canada Honoured by Grand & Toy
PRESS RELEASE: EXCEPTIONAL TEACHERS ACROSS CANADA HONOURED BY GRAND & TOY ‘A Day Made Better’ initiative recognizes teachers for their extraordinary passion, creativity, innovation, and a commitment to sustainability TORONTO— October 2, 2012 – Canadian office solutions provider Grand & Toy today announced the 17 dedicated teachers from publicly-funded schools who are the recipients of its 2012 ‘A Day Made Better’ award (www.grandandtoy.com/betterday). The initiative rewards exceptional kindergarten to grade 8 teachers with a massive box, containing ...Read more
Nov. 19th, 2012
2012 Reponsible Citizenship Roundtables
Deloitte and Learning for a Sustainable Future have engaged Canadian youth in a roundtable discussion on the role of education in inspiring responsible citizenship. This national roundtable brought together twenty-two young Canadians from across Canada to share their perspectives on citizenship and discuss the challenges and opportunities to advance education for responsible citizenship. The delegates also designed an innovative call to action entitled the “Our Canada Project“. Through the Our Canada Project, youth from across Canada will be invited to upload ...Read more
Nov. 19th, 2012
Annual ESD Symposium 2012
VALE AND LEARNING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE HOST THE 11TH ANNUAL STATE OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GALA On Tuesday, October 16th, 2012, VALE hosted Learning for a Sustainable Future’s 11th Annual State of Education for Sustainable Development Gala at First Canadian Place. Over 90 business, government and community leaders, educators and students joined together to learn how Canada is responding to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, and the role ...Read more
Oct. 4th, 2012
Online Interactive Presentation by David Bell – Oct 5 12-1pm – The Challenges of Sustainability and the Role of ESD (Education for Sustainable Development)
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies invites you to our October online offerings of the 2012/2013 LA&PS Alumni & Student Speaker Series. Hear Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, David Bell (Evironmental Studies), in an interactive online presentation on Friday, October 5th from 12-1pm, on The Challenges of Sustainability and the Role of ESD (Education for Sustainable Development). Dr. Bell will focus on the challenge of sustainability which he defines as an educational challenge for humankind. Can we as a ...Read more
Oct. 3rd, 2012
The $1,000,000 Aviva Community Fund is back!
LSF is once again proud to partner with Aviva Canada, one of the country’s leading insurance groups, in helping bring the Aviva Community Fund to life. This fun competition, created to inspire ideas that create positive change within communities across Canada, is a great way for your school to submit R4R Action Project ideas. For the fourth year in a row Aviva is inviting Canadians across the country to submit their best ideas for positive change starting ...Read more
Aug. 9th, 2012
Pro Tem Guest Editorial, By David V.J. Bell
The following appeared in the February 2012 issue of Pro Tem. David V.J. Bell is Chair of Learning for a Sustainable Future (www.lsf-lst.ca) and is Professor Emeritus and Former Dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, as well as an IRIS Executive Board member, and the YCAS Director emeritus; BA’65 (York/UofT) AM ’67, PhD’69 (Harvard University) I’m honored to be invited to serve as co-editor for this issue of Pro Tem, a position I last held ...Read more
Jun. 28th, 2012
New on R4R: Curriculum Unit and Refine Search Features, and Children’s Literature Reviews
We’ve been busy preparing a number of new features on R4R. We hope you will find them useful during the last few weeks of class and summer planning for the fall of 2012! New Search Features Curriculum Unit: You can now search by curriculum unit. Simply select your province or territory, grade and subject, and the curriculum unit drop-down option will appear. Search R4R.ca Refining Search for Integrated Learning: We’ve updated the search results page so that each additional option ...Read more
Jun. 14th, 2012
West Lorne Chronicle: St. Mary’s Peace Garden
St. Mary’s Peace Garden Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:05:37 EDT AM Students from St. Mary’s and their teacher work hard at creating their school’s Peace Garden, thanks to a $400 Greening With Native Plants grant. After attending the Eco League symposium, five students and I were inspired to form an Eco- club and to apply for the $400 Greening with native plants grant. The Eco-club selected this specific project because we felt it represented one of our ...Read more