Learning to live well with others on a finite planet has become an essential and urgent task. With a critically optimistic spirit this website showcases inspiring examples of sustainability, resilience, regeneration or whatever we want to call the brave efforts to make another world possible.
Here you will find engaging digital stories that have been compiled by University of Victoria Geography students participating in various field courses or other experiential learning opportunities in the region some call Cascadia (on the Northwest Coast of Turtle Island) or Europe.
We support the struggles of First Nations communities for dignity and sovereignty. There will be no "sustainability" in this region while Indigenous peoples remain dispossessed of their territories.
In 2018, students from the University of Victoria traveled to the UK and Western Europe meeting with planners, activists, community leaders and others grappling with the sustainability challenges facing cities. They completed a video-blog sharing what we learned in Manchester, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Amsterdam, Hamburg and Copenhagen.
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Click the image to learn about the 2017 Northern Europe Sustainability Field School.
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For more details contact group leader Cam Owens at: camo@uvic.ca
About the Cascadia Sustainability Experience
Each summer the Cascadia Sustainability Field School provides UVic students an opportunity to travel down the coast and learn about the inspiring efforts towards social justice and environmental sustainability in our region.
The Cascadia Sustainability Experience evolved out of the students' and instructors' desire to share experiences and insights from the field. On the trips we have shot hundreds of hours of video trying to capture the stories, insights and hands-on efforts of the amazing, creative people in our region making a difference.
The videos on this site are offered in a spirit of giving back to the community; to inspire - to teach - to cultivate new ways of living in this region!
The Cascadia Sustainability Experiences gratefully acknowledges the support of the Teaching and Learning Center and the Community Mapping Collaboratory (Ken Josephson) at the University of Victoria. Shout outs to former UVic student Amy Becker who designed this website.
