Sustainability is an umbrella encompassing an enormous number of topics—which means that so does the UVSP's work on-campus! We run a variety of campaigns, host events, facilitate action and discussion groups, offer small grants for student-led projects, and create zines, among many other activities. Our projects and programs cover topics related to recycling, conservation, pollinator health, active transport, stewardship, climate change, ecological restoration, water security—and much more!

Check out our list of current projects and initiatives below to learn more about what we're working on right now!

Ripples

Part love letter and part call to action, Ripples is a youth-created arts zine featuring artwork, photography, poetry, and prose, all created by kids and youth between the ages of 6 and 25 to celebrate World Water Day (March 22nd). The zine is a platform to give kids and youth a voice in issues related to watershed health and security and for them to celebrate a love of  water through art.

​Ripples is now in its fourth year of annual publication and is only continuing to grow. Each year we partner with new collaborators to bring the zine to life and continue to receive more and more submissions.

Bee Campus Campaign

​The UVSP is currently campaigning to get UVic designated as a Bee Campus—demonstrating a commitment to educating about, celebrating, and protecting bees, as well as other pollinators like birds, butterflies, bats, flies, wasps, small mammals, and beetles.

Educate

In the past year, we've hosted a variety of workshops, information sessions, and info booths to help our campus community learn more about bees and other pollinators, their habitats, and the challenges they face—and we plan to host even more! So far, we've covered topics such as: how to plant a pollinator garden, accessible ways to create pollinator habitat as a student, and how ecological restoration work is critical to protecting pollinator habitat.

Celebrate

We've been working to celebrate bees and other pollinators through a collaborative community pollinator mural, an artistic campus pollinator map, and planning celebrations for World Bee Day next year! Art and 'artivism' are fantastic ways to engage community members and help students strengthen their sense of place, linking it to the importance of bees and other pollinators.

Protect

To protect pollinators and their habitats, we've been partnering with the UVic Ecological Restoration Club, the Curbside Farms Club, and the UVic Campus Community Garden to protect native pollinator habitat by restoring the Garry oak ecosystem at UVic, as well as planting pollinator gardens and corridors on-campus to make the urban landscape more habitable and less hostile for bees and other pollinators.

Environmental Roundtable

For more than a decade, the UVSP has been hosting annual Environmental Roundtable events to foster community around student-led change and environmental action, nurture environmental connections at UVic and in Victoria, and support student vision for a more sustainable campus community.

These events feature speakers, discussion roundtables, exciting booths, a free dumpster-dived meal, and a raffle draw featuring goods and gift cards generously donated by sustainability-focused local businesses.

Love to read? Want to learn more about the twin worlds of sustainability, climate justice, and ecology?
​Looking for resources for learning about how intersectionality, decolonization, community, and accessibility are inseparable from sustainability? 

Check out the UVSP's Reading List!

All book recommendations have been made by members of the UVSP Board who found them interesting, insightful, and entirely worth a read.

Ventures into Sustainable Recreation Campaign

The UVSP's Ventures into Sustainable Recreation Campaign seeks to connect students with opportunities to get outside, move their bodies, and recreate in-community, all while drawing and reinforcing the intersections and interrelations of stewardship, sustainability, decolonization, accessibility, and recreation.
Through this campaign, the UVSP hopes to help participants build a sense of community, feel empowered through movement, nurture their connections with nature and senses of place, learn more about justice issues related to recreation, and understand recreation and stewardship as deeply and intimately intertwined.
This campaign includes events and activities such as: safety, leave no trace, gear repair, and bike maintenance workshops, flatwater and whitewater canoe clinics, group climbs, introductory birding events, hikes, group bike rides, and outdoor art sessions. As a part of this campaign, the UVSP also releases resources to support students in sourcing affordable and secondhand outdoor gear, planning safe recreational outings, and understanding the intersections between stewardship, sustainability, decolonization, accessibility, and recreation.

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We acknowledge with respect the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking Peoples on whose unceded territories the UVSP works on, and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples whose relationships with these lands and waters have also existed since time immemorial and continue to this day.
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