Sustainability Walks

The Office of Sustainability offers Sustainability Walks for groups of up to twenty people.

Participants will learn about some of the sustainability services and attractions on the Thunder Bay campus. Stops on the walk include the Braun Building Rain Garden, CASES building, Lake Tamblyn, Climate Action Park, McIntyre River, Sweat Lodge, Campus Garden, and more.

During the walk, participants will discuss what sustainability means to the university, and how it is more broadly defined by multiple worldviews. Participants will also learn some history of the campus.

Tours are 1.5 hours and may not be possible in winter if snow levels are high.

Contact lpmckell@lakeheadu.ca for more information.

The Lakehead University Etuaptmumk bimoseng (Two-Eyed Seeing Walk) is a land-based learning experience that invites participants to explore the Indigenous history before contact, culture and relationships connected to the lands surrounding the Thunder Bay campus.

Etuaptmumk bimoseng (pronunciation) (Two-Eyed Seeing Walk) brings together both Indigenous and Western knowledge systems together in a balancing framework.

Guided along Lake Tamblyn, McIntyre River, and surrounding campus lands, by Office of Sustainability and Teaching Commons,  participants engage with teachings connected to Anthropology, Indigenous traditional medicines, Treaties, colonization and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.  Walks are offered in spring, summer, and fall. 

The experience encourages participants to better understand the significance of reconciliation through experiential learning from the land.

Interested in signing up for an Etuaptmumk bimoseng?  All details here.