The Office of Sustainability is offering a limit of twelve free admissions to a four hours Commuter Cycling Skills Course run by EcoSuperior. If you want to cycle more confidently on multi-use trails, bike lanes, or roads with light to moderate traffic, this course is for you. This course was donated by the City of Thunder Bay for Lakehead University’s participation in the 2018 Commuter Challenge.

 Click here for an outline of what the course will cover.

Skills or equipment that you need to participate: Participants must know how to ride a bicycle and should bring their bike, helmet, water, and snacks. Rental bikes are available for a fee.

The course will run two times over the fall term, with six participants per course. Registration is on a first come first serve basis, and is limited to staff, faculty, and students. 

October 23rd and 25th, 6-8 pm, at Lakehead University (participants attend both dates, weather permitting)

November 6th and 8th, 6-8 pm, at Lakehead University (participants attend both dates, weather permitting)

To register, please email Ledah McKellar at coordinator.sustainability@lakeheadu.ca

The Office of Sustainability is offering a limit of twelve free admissions to a four hours Commuter Cycling Skills Course run by EcoSuperior. If you want to cycle more confidently on multi-use trails, bike lanes, or roads with light to moderate traffic, this course is for you. This course was donated by the City of Thunder Bay for Lakehead University’s participation in the 2018 Commuter Challenge.

Click here for an outline of what the course will cover.

Skills or equipment that you need to participate: Participants must know how to ride a bicycle and should bring their bike, helmet, water, and snacks. Rental bikes are available for a fee.

The course will run two times over the fall term, with six participants per course. Registration is on a first come first serve basis, and is limited to staff, faculty, and students. 

October 23rd and 25th, 6-8 pm, at Lakehead University (participants attend both dates, weather permitting)

November 6th and 8th, 6-8 pm, at Lakehead University (participants attend both dates, weather permitting)

To register, please email Ledah McKellar at coordinator.sustainability@lakeheadu.ca

Join us for a guest speaker presentation by Kelsey Juliana, a youth activist and lead plaintiff in Juliana v. U.S. 

Juliana v. United States is about a failure by the U.S. government to act on climate change. The 21 youth named in the Our Childrens’ Trust lawsuit claim that by creating a national energy system that causes climate change, the U.S. government is depriving them of their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.

FREE ADMISSION AND REFRESHMENTS

Wednesday, September 19
1:00 pm, followed by Q&A
Doors open at 12:30 pm
Thunder Bay: Faculty Lounge
Orillia: OA3041

“I believe that climate change is the most pressing issue my generation
will ever face, indeed that the world has ever faced.

This is an environmental issue and it is also a human rights issue.”

            - Kelsey Juliana

This event is sponsored by Graduate Studies and Research in Education, the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Faculty of Education, the Office of Sustainability, EcoSuperior, and the LUSU Sustainability Initiative.

Lakehead University's new rain garden will be a site featured in the 2018 rain garden tour September 8.

Details at this link:

http://www.ecosuperior.org/article/rain-garden-tour-2018-9590.asp

Meet the Sustainability Coordinator, and learn about sustainability services and features on campus - the rain garden, Lake Tamblyn, the sweat lodge and gitigaan, the community garden - and experience one of the many nature trails on the Thunder Bay campus. 

The Office of Sustainability is offering free breakfast snacks to celebrate employees who participated in Commuter Challenge Week.

Stop by between 8-9 am to enjoy some free breakfast snacks and tell us how you have been commuting to work!

The first 200 employees to register will receive free transit passes for the week of June 3-9.

The first 50 employees to register will be entered into a draw to receive prizes, including bike equipment and FREE registration in a workplace commuter cycling skills course!  

Post-challenge prizes will also be awarded to:

- The employee with the most CO2 saved

- The most epic or unconventional commute

- The most modes of commuting

You will also help our University win as we strive for the highest participation rates in our employee category!

Last year over 100 employees of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre participated in commuter challenge week. Think Lakehead University can surpass this? Help make it happen! Make Lakehead a workplace leader in sustainable transportation!

Stay tuned for programming during the week of June 3-9, including a free breakfast for commuter champions, and a free drop-in bike tune-up sponsored by a local bike shop.

The workshops are for the Lakehead University community from both campuses, including all faculty and graduate students.

The RCSC focuses on three core areas: Environmental Sustainability, Political Economy and Social Justice.

Environmental sustainability seeks to sustain global life-support systems by securing sufficient quality of natural resources, ecosystems and species diversity in all aspects of the natural and the human or built environment.

Political economy refers to examining how political and economic forces taken together affect the development of government legislation and policy.

Social justice refers to the belief that communities should be organized to allow for and promote equality, fairness, dignity and solidarity among community members such that all members of the community experience a just and fair society, experiencing equality not just in laws or on paper but also in social outcomes.