UVSP 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 students' vision for a more sustainable campus community.
Environmental roundtable 2026
The 2026 Environmental Roundtable's theme was ‘Fostering Community Resilience'. We hosted it on Tuesday, March 24th 2026 in the Vertigo room in the Student Union Building (SUB). Previously, we've hosted the Roundtable in the Michèle Pujol Room in the SUB—the Upper Lounge just across the hall! We were beyond excited to have 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 community meal with the help of Community Cabbage.
The environmental roundtable was an opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses that offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students because of how they relate to sustainability, accessibility, and community.
The environmental roundtable was an opportunity to meet, visit, and make connections with campus and community groups and businesses that offer programs, services, and resources that are valuable to students because of how they relate to sustainability, accessibility, and community.
Graphic Visual of our 2026 Roundtable by Al Tantalidou and Kenzie Ferguson
We were honoured to have Terri Barnhard open our event with a heartfelt territorial acknowledgement. Thank you to Michael, who gave his talk about local sustainable business. Huge thank you to Community Cabbage for helping us with our reclaimed dinner (including some vegetarian and gluten-free options) that we enjoyed with our community.
The roundtable portion of the event was 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. We are so thankful to Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky, Lindsay Worden, Lili Munn and Tessa Jones for facilitating this key aspect of our event. 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.
The roundtable portion of the event was 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. We are so thankful to Sabrina Guzman Skotnitsky, Lindsay Worden, Lili Munn and Tessa Jones for facilitating this key aspect of our event. 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.
Lili, Sabrina, Lindsay and Tessa with community art posters from the roundtable, Photo taken by Elijah Whitson
At the end of the event, we had our raffle draw. The door prizes at the Environmental Roundtable was made possible by generous donations from several local businesses. Businesses include joni, Market Collective, Saltspring Soapworks, The Soap Exchange, Country Grocer, Habit Coffee, Little June, Sea Cider, Quest Reality Games, Satinflower Nurseries, Boulder House, the Grove, Vintage After Death, and more! A huge thank you to our door prize donors to making this event extra special.
