Roots & Shoots Youth for Action workshop

They way of the Dodo: how can we halt species decline?

Our planet is undergoing a biodiversity crisis. Over 16,000 species worldwide are threatened with extinction. How would you propose we protect species and their habitats? Do we need more parks and protected areas, stronger laws or perhaps incentives for voluntary stewardship initiatives? Together we'll explore these options.

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Combat climate change through what you eat

Probably THE hottest environmental topic right now is Global Warming, and rightly so as it is the first to endanger our entire planetary civilization. While global problems often seem impossible to tackle at a local level, this issue has causes close to home. We will explore strategies to effect significant change in behaviours, the biggest one being eating lower on the food chain!

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Urban Ecology

There's a lot of life amid the concrete and glass!  Partcicipants will take a short walk to see the variety of life that exists on the slivers of green space in the city and learn the value of keeping larger ones.  sign me up

I Don’t Care

A reporter was asking people on the street what they thought the biggest problem in the world was. No one would stop to even comment.  Eventually the reporter grabbed someone: “What do you see as the world’s biggest problems?” the man looked into the camera and said “I don’t have time for this and really, I don’t care”. The reporter looked into the camera and said “There you go folks, two of the biggest problems: people don’t have the time and really, they don’t care”. Apathy. It’s an epidemic among our friends. People are missing opportunities to change the world and have fun doing it. How can we inspire our friends, neighbours and community to start making time for issues that affect us all?

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HIV and AIDS

Activism 2.0

The internet is undergoing a major revolution - big enough for people to call the era we're in Web 2.0.  It's full of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and social networks that redefine how we interact with technology and each other.  It's also changing how activists are championing causes and waging campaigns.  Through insightful case studies, we'll look at how the new tools are making this the most exciting era for activism and how we can all join the revolution.

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Sustainable schools

Reducing your shoe size: can it be painless?

What does it mean to "live within one's environmental means"?  There's a great deal of discussion about the size of everyone's ecological footprint.  Currently the majority of North Americans consume earth's resources to such an extent that if the entire world lived as we do, it is estimated that we would need about 9 earths to support us all.  Our adult and senior generations lead us into this situation - creating our consuming lifestyles - without realizing the consequences.  We are wiser now, but can we really change our lifestyles enough to make a difference?  We will explore options and brainstorm to find solutions that really will make a difference.

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Not Just Treading Water…

Enviro Challenge

Two pressing topics; waste management and water conservation.  Using the format of game-show challenges we'll explore some of the issues. Then Science World staff will coach you in how to convert your favourite games into useful communication tools for, school events, camp programs, busking festivals.... You get the idea! Roll up!

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Swimming in it...

(Over) fishing, tainted water, oil slicks, and clogged estuaries…how to tackle water-related issues when the entire Pacific seems the scale of the problem?  Is our marine wildlife sunk?  Get your hooks in to the aquatic issues that seem to be spawning in beautiful British Columbia...

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