Welcome to the Sierra Youth Coalition!
Join us this summer at a Youth Action Gathering!
[one left! in Vancouver]
Click the poster below for details.
The Sierra Youth Coalition is an organization run by youth for youth, serving as the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. Our mission is to empower young people to become active community leaders who contribute to making Canada a better society.
To this end, we educate young people about ecological and social sustainability; we challenge unjust and environmentally destructive systems by using a hope-based approach; and we advocate for the new generation of youths in Canada who want to inherit a world worth inheriting: one where social justice and the environment are at the center of everyone's priorities.
Over ten years the Sierra Youth Coalition has grown into a pretty big network, with hundreds of registered members and thousands of determined volunteers, operating in over 80 colleges and universities and in 50 high schools. The Sierra Youth Coalition is present and active in every major urban center and in many rural regions as well. Our projects affect the health and well-being of over 500 000 people across Canada.
To know more about us, click here!
Latest Posts
08/22/2010 - 08:41
Adam MacIsaac
Help support the Sierra Youth Coalition by making a bid in the Executive Committee Skills Auction. Please take a look at the available items below and send a silent bid via email with the title of the item and the amount you wish to bid to Adam@syc-cjs.org.
Bidding will be updated with the highest bid every second day.
Your kind donations help support the projects and education which the Sierra Youth Coalition do with young Canadians to help increase environmental awareness and involvement in issues which are impacting our communities across Canada.
ExComm Skills AuctionJust for Fun!
1. Knit Custom-made Snowflake Slippers
Location: Anywhere! Must pay shipping if outside of Montreal
Description: Give 6 weeks to prepare slippers in correct size. See attached photo of my father sporting awesome snowflake slippers
ExComm Member: Jessica Magonet
Minimum Bid: $25
2. Two Hours of Beginners Music Lessons (Piano, Flute or Accordion)
Location: Edmonton
Description: You can use the instruments...
08/18/2010 - 11:08
traceygup
By: Sara Falconer
The status quo had better watch its back. A new generation of activists is getting ready to make some big changes, and thanks to Ottawa's 10th annual Youth Action Gathering (YAG), they'll have the skills to do it.
From July 12 to 16, the Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) will host a very unique summer camp for 20 youth between the ages of 14 and 19 at the MacSkimming Outdoor Education Centre. YAGs are also being held in Halifax and Victoria.
"The gathering is basically a way to bring together youth who want to make positive change in their communities, both socially and environmentally," says Tracey Guptill, communications and outreach co-ordinator for the SYC. "We're giving them a forum to learn about these issues through the lens of sustainability." Participants will learn organizing skills including consensus building and facilitating, as well as taking part in workshops on yoga, vegan cooking, alternative energy, greenwashing and anti-oppression.
The goal is to help...
08/03/2010 - 11:34
traceygup
Salary: VolunteerTime Commitment: 5 – 10 hours a month, September to AprilLocation: Flexible
Sustainable Campuses
The Sustainable Campuses is a Sierra Youth Coalition (SYC) initiative that works to assist, empower and network university students working to make their schools more sustainable. The Sustainable Campuses Project challenges people to see the links between university operations and their socio-economic and environmental effects - both locally and globally. This project helps students integrate sustainable operations, policy and practice into their university institutions for the long term. Sustainable Campuses works directly with students to build your skills, enhance your knowledge, and help you to succeed in institutionalizing sustainability.
Volunteer Position Description
- Facilitate monthly conference calls involving students from across your province involved in the campus sustainability movement- Collaborate with other Regional...
05/23/2010 - 21:20
Pascale Geoffroy
03/19/2010 - 15:30
traceygup
By Joanne Chianello , The Ottawa CitizenMarch 13, 2010
OTTAWA — Almost one year ago to the day today, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities resolved to, in their own words, “phase out the sale and purchase of bottled water at their own facilities where appropriate and where potable water is available.”
About 70 municipalities have made good on that pledge. The City of Ottawa is not one of them. Ottawa can’t go bottle-free because there aren’t enough public fountains to provide water to its citizens. Indeed, there are only two hard-to-find fountains in the City Hall building itself.
“We have a long way to go to provide access to our residents of our own water,” said Councillor Diane Holmes, who has been championing the installation of more public fountains.
“There have been some fountains taken out as bottled water became the thing. And now it’s time to put those fountains back in.”
The water and sewer budget, which will be discussed later this month, is expected to set aside...
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