Environmental Storytelling and Digital Media

Description This experience encourages students to merge academic research with creative media components and environmental activism to learn how to communicate complex environmental issues to the public. Examples Examples Include: Faculty Involvement Environmental storytelling emphasizes narration and its potential to mobilize as students learn to frame environmental knowledge through ethical storytelling, visual literacy and advocacy.

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Environmental Research Project

Description Students become immersed in either supporting a current faculty member’s environmental research or a large independent course-based project. Faculty members are encouraged to act as research mentors and supervisors by formulating connections to green sector networks and community partners. This will aid students seeking post-graduate research in areas including climate change analysis, conservation and

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GreenTech Entrepreneurship Simulation Lab

Description Students engage in immersive, scenario-based simulations and innovation labs that replicate real-world environmental challenges and green sector dynamics. These experiences combine professional role-playing with entrepreneurial thinking to address environmental problems. Examples Examples Include: Faculty Involvement EUC faculty members act to guide these exercises with input from policy networks, community organizations or green industry professionals.

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Eco-Monitoring Field Lab

Description Students become immersed in applying environmentally principled theoretical concepts with laboratory experiments. These labs may take place in York University’s woodlots, parks, river sheds, green roofs, or conservation areas. Students apply these methods to gain insight into environmental change while engaging with faculty members and peers. Examples Examples Include: Faculty Involvement EUC faculty members

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Eco-Design Studio

Description Students engage in environmentally principled design challenges that aim at addressing real-world pressing issues. This experience type further aims at deepening students’ understanding of environmental processes by engaging with EUC faculty members, external partners and other students. Examples Examples include designing: Faculty Involvement EUC faculty members serve as mentors, helping students navigate technical and

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York University hosts leadership education events for students, educators across Canada

By Alex Huls | August 1, 2025 Through a collaboration with the Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC), York University’s Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) is now home to national leadership programs that empower students and educators to drive community change. AKFC is a non-profit international development organization and part of the global Aga Khan Development

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Earth Overshoot Day arrives early with the flow of trade playing a large role

By Sandra McLean | July 22, 2025 TORONTO, July 22, 2025 – Earth Overshoot Day (July 24) is more than a week early this year resulting from humanity’s growing ecological footprint amid trade wars and tariffs, which play a potential role in the ecological footprint of Canada and many others, says Eric Miller, director of the Ecological Footprint

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Farming methods threaten wild bumblebees, York study finds

By Ashley Goodfellow Craig July 25, 2025 Wild bumblebees across Canada face significant threats linked to agricultural methods, a new study out of York University finds.  Published in Conservation Science and Practice, the study examines how Canadian agricultural practices contribute to disease spillover from managed pollinator bees – used to support crop production – to wild bumblebees.  Led

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York University to train next generation of climate ambassadors

Edited by Ashley Goodfellow Craig | May 16, 2025 York University will offer funding from the highly competitive Canadian Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Scholarships (QES) program to students and researchers from York, as well as partner universities in Costa Rica, Ghana and the Philippines to tackle issues at the intersection of climate change and

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EUC Global Connection: The Caribbean

Professor Andil Gosine’s work in the Caribbean began at the start of his career. As an academic, Gosine wanted to investigate the issues of sexuality rights, especially as they impacted LGBTQ2S+ communities within the Caribbean. Gosine’s efforts to advance sexuality rights had a groundbreaking impact, with him leading the charge in organizing the first major

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