Sustainable Canada Dialogues - Invitation to McGill worksshop

Are you a current McGill graduate student? Interested in sustainability, climate change, and science policy? If so, the Sustainable Canada Dialogues invites you to a one-day visioning workshop.
          
Date/Time: Thursday, May 15, 2014, 9 am - 4 pm (refreshments & lunch provided)
Location: Room W2/3A, Stewart building, 1205 Dr. Penfield Ave., McGill, Montreal

This interactive workshop is one of the first in a series with diverse stakeholders across Canada. In this session, we seek input from McGill graduate students on:

• What are the main priorities for you and for your family, community, and region re: sustainability (i.e., social, environmental, economic, and/or cultural sustainability)?
• In 20 years, where would you like to be, personally and as a nation, re: sustainability?
• What are strategies or steps would help reach this vision for the future? 
• What do you think are key concerns and strengths re: sustainability across Canada? 
• What can individuals, institutions, and governments do to increase sustainability?

Your participation will inform the development of evidence-based recommendations to politicians and policy-makers regarding sustainability strategies in Canada. You do not need special experience or prior knowledge of sustainability or policy issues. Your participation will add important perspectives and experiences on possible futures for Canada.  

To register, fill in this online form before Monday, May 12. Please contact me for more information.  Use the hashtag #SustainableCAN to follow the workshops across Canada. 

---

About the Sustainable Canada Dialogues

The Sustainable Canada Dialogues (SCD) is a new Canadian working group dedicated to developing evidence-based recommendations to integrate sustainability principles and processes into federal policy. It is an effort to harness the unique opportunity for Canadian scholars to contribute to the social discussion of fundamental environmental issues in Canada, and will target positive action as a means to stimulate conversation around sustainability.  

The first phase of the SCD plan includes synthesizing and diffusing expertise from a broad range of Canadian sectors regarding their impact on the environment and climate change. Following, we are planning a participatory collaboration with various stakeholders across Canada to envision a sustainable future, and to build a portfolio of possible avenues of attaining this vision of a sustainable Canada.

We work with diverse stakeholders across Canada to:

1. Develop tangible, non-partisan recommendations for the 2015 federal election, and
2. Provide a comprehensive recommendations for Canada for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change summit in December 2015. 

SCD is led by Dr. Catherine Potvin, UNESCO-McGill Chair in Dialogues on Sustainability (McGill) and guided by a Scientific Committee composed of Drs. Fikret Berkes (UManitoba), Sally Aitken (UBC), Heather MacLean (UofT), Mark Stoddart (Memorial), and Chantelle Richmond (Western).  I sit on the outreach committee.