Over the past year and a half, the Lakehead University Sustainability Stewardship Council (LUSSC), and its three Working Groups have developed a 5 year Sustainability Action Plan for the University. This plan has three main sections: Academics, Operations, and Engagement.

Staff, faculty, and students are invited to learn about the draft Sustainability Action Plan.

Plan to attend, and please share your feedback - help shape the future of sustainability at the University.

Lakehead University Climate Change Forum      

AGENDA

Day 1: September 28^th (Thursday)

Venue: The Study, LU 

1:00 – 1: 15 pm      Ice breaker/ Coffee    

1:15 – 2:15 pm       What Is Climate Change Anyway?

Brief Presentations and Q&A

2:15 – 2:45 pm     Picturing Climate Change in Thunder Bay: Urgency, Hope, and                         Action. A guided tour of EarthCare Thunder Bay and Lakehead University’s Collaborative photovoice exhibit on climate change.

2:45 – 3:45 pm      Student/Faculty Debate

Be it resolved that “Humans are rising to the challenge and tackling the climate change crisis”

3:45 – 4:00 pm      Break

4:00 – 5:00 pm      Lecture: Sherilee Harper: “Climate change impacts on Indigenous peoples’ health: Stories from around the world”

5:00 – 6:00 pm      Dinner Break (Free for registered participants)

6:00 – 7:30 pm      Boreal Heartbeat: Emotional Impacts of Climate Change in Northwestern Ontario. Kelsey Jones-Casey, Fulbright Scholar

Day 2: September 29^th, 2017

Venue: Bartley Residence, Conference Room, LU 

8:30 – 9:00 am    Coffee and informal greetings

ALL FOLLOWING PANEL DISCUSSIONS: 5 mins presentations per panelist. Floor will be open for discussion.

Chair of panel summarizes discussion

9:00 - 10:30 am   Lecture/Panel 1 : Climate Change impacts on the Lake Superior/watersheds

Panelists: Robert Stewart (Moderator)

     Carl Lindquist – Superior Watershed Partnership

     Tom Berry – Minnesota Sea Grant

     EJ Isaac – Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

   Alyssa Ray – Red Rock Indian Band

10:30 – 10:45 am  Tea Break

10.45 - 12.15 am   Lecture/Panel  2: Climate Modelling and Data Use

Panelists: Adam Cornwell (Moderator)

Al Douglas

Edmundo Fausto

Graham Saunders

Tammy Cook

12:15 - 1:00 pm   Lunch

1:00 - 2:30 pm     Lecture / Panel 3 The Bio-economy and climate mitigation

Panelists: Sudip Rakshit (Moderator)

                     Warren Mabee (Queens)

                     Colin Kelly (Confed college, Thunder Bay)

      David Johnson

2:30 - 3:00 pm Tea

3:00 - 3:15 pm       Lecture: Ontario’s Aboriginal Communities: On the frontline of the fight against Climate change - First Nation Technical Services (TBC)

3:15 - 4:45 pm        Lecture / Panel 4: Community Awareness Perspectives

Panelists:  Paul Berger (Moderator)

                 Rena Viehbeck (EarthCare, City of Thunder Bay)

                 Lindsay Galway

                 Charles Levkoe

While the event is free, please email Dr. Sudip Rakshit to ensure a spot.

Over the past year and a half, the Lakehead University Sustainability Stewardship Council (LUSSC), and its three Working Groups have developed a 5 year Sustainability Action Plan for the University. This plan has three main sections: Academics, Operations, and Engagement.

Staff, faculty, and students are invited to learn about the draft Sustainability Action Plan.

Plan to attend, and please share your feedback - help shape the future of sustainability at the University.

Over the past year and a half, the Lakehead University Sustainability Stewardship Council (LUSSC), and its three Working Groups have developed a 5 year Sustainability Action Plan for the University. This plan has three main sections: Academics, Operations, and Engagement.

Stop by our booth at the Paterson Library to learn more and to share your feedback.

Fill out the feedback form and enter a draw for a raffle prize.

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