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UVSP Environmental Roundtable

Join us at the Environmental Roundtable

The University of Victoria Sustainability Project’s (UVSP) Environmental Roundtable has been around for more than 10 years and was created to foster community around student-led change and environmental action, nurture connections between nonprofit organizations, sustainable businesses, and the student community, and support student vision for a more sustainable campus community.

The Environmental Roundtable is back once again! The Roundtable will be taking place on March 10th from 3:30pm to 8:00pm in the Upper Lounge in the Student Union Building (SUB) at UVic. Previously, we've hosted the Roundtable in the Michèle Pujol Room in the SUB—the Upper Lounge is just across the hall!

The theme of this year’s Environmental Roundtable is ‘Nurturing Relationships, Inspiring Action’. And we are beyond excited to invite folks from the campus community and beyond to join us for a fun-filled and inspiring evening of speakers, community roundtables, exciting raffle prizes, info and activity tables, and a free & dumpster-dived community meal!

The event will begin at 3:30pm with an opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses who offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students because of how they relate to sustainability, accessibility, and community. Starting at 5pm, we will hear from three special speakers before digging into a dumpster-dived dinner (including some vegetarian and gluten-free food options) with our community, and then beginning our roundtables! The roundtable portion of the event will be an opportunity for students and community members to voice their thoughts and feelings about how our campus community can nurture our relationships to strengthen and ground the communities and solidarities that are a part of taking action for sustainability. At the end of the event, we will have do our raffle draw!

Speakers

Join us from 5-6pm for two incredible and thought-provoking talks from Loreisa Lepine & Drew Elves and Justin Rhoden. More details coming soon!

Roundtable discussions

For the roundtable portion of the event (taking place between 6:30pm and 7:45pm), students, community members, faculty and staff will have a chance to contribute to collective visioning and facilitated discussions framed around what nurturing relationships and inspiring action mean to sustainable movements.

This year, the UVSP is thrilled to be joined by four facilitators who are all upper-year undergrads or graduate students at UVic! Together, Liz McCleary (they/them), Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky (she/her), Lindsay Worden (she/her), and A-C Barrios-Stewart (they/them) have experience in and knowledge of climate justice, art-based activism, climate anxiety, food justice and sovereignty, youth organizing, and more!

During the roundtables, participants will seat themselves at a table with one of our facilitators to discuss nurturing relationships and inspiring action for sustainability here at UVic. These discussions are meant to be generative and connective for participants, inviting members of the campus community to engage in meaningful dialogue with one another, feel connectedness and kinship through shared passions, hopes, and worries, and help the UVSP to better understand how our work on-campus can help to meet the needs and realize the visions of students.

Tablers

We are excited announce that a number of campus groups, local businesses, and community organizations will be joining the UVSP at the Environmental Roundtable to share programs, resources, job and volunteer opportunities, and more! From 3:30-4:30pm, come connect with: the UVic Sustainability Project, Zero Waste Emporium, Lifecycles, POLIS Project on Ecological Governance, Capital Bike, Compost Education Centre, UVic Campus Community Garden, Society for Students with Disabilities, CICADA Club, Gorge Waterway Action Society, Found off the Grid, UVic Ecological Restoration Club, Community Cabbage, and Environmental Studies Students' Association.

Door prizes

The door prizes at the Environmental Roundtable have been made possible by generous donations from a number of local businesses. Including: Joni, Uncouth Chocolate, Ecologyst, Refire Kitchen, Quest Escape, Knotty by Nature, Beehive Wool, Rise Consignment, Paboom Home Imports, Grove Outdoors, Luna Collective, and Goldilocks Goods. Come and get entered to win some fabulous prizes and gift cards. 

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  • About
  • Get Involved
  • Current Initiatives
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    • UVSP Environmental Roundtable
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  • Contact Us