The UVic Sustainability Project has existed on-campus for more than 25 years. We started as a student-initiated club and became a UVSS Affiliated Group in 2003!
Our work and focuses on campus were initially rooted primarily in ecology, waste reduction, eco-friendly initiatives, and active-transport. While these topics are still present in the work we do today, our breadth as an organization has grown and changed in direct response to the needs and wants of students.
Today, we centre our work in holistic, interdisciplinary, anti-colonial, and intersectional action. Our capacity and desire to grow and change as an organization during our time at UVic is emblematic of our commitment to implementing initiatives that create tangible and meaningful change as defined by students—something that is needed in the climate crisis.
Our work and focuses on campus were initially rooted primarily in ecology, waste reduction, eco-friendly initiatives, and active-transport. While these topics are still present in the work we do today, our breadth as an organization has grown and changed in direct response to the needs and wants of students.
Today, we centre our work in holistic, interdisciplinary, anti-colonial, and intersectional action. Our capacity and desire to grow and change as an organization during our time at UVic is emblematic of our commitment to implementing initiatives that create tangible and meaningful change as defined by students—something that is needed in the climate crisis.
Past projects, events, and initiativesIn our time at UVic, the UVSP has conducted sustainability audits, run community events like Earth Fest and the Environmental Roundtable, supported the SPOKES bike loaning program, run campaigns about reusable containers and how to go zero-waste, held movie nights, hosted a 100-mile local foods dinner, funded free menstrual cups for students through GEM, helped bring a mobile recycling depot to UVic, run a student food box program, supported Campus Sustainability and Planning bring compost infrastructure to campus, and hosted clothing swaps, various discussion forms, benefit concerts and more!
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