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Archives for March 2022

Break the Bias – on International Women’s Day March 8 and beyond.

March 8, 2022 by Christine Pinkham Leave a Comment

March 8th, 2022 is International Women’s Day – a recognition of women and their achievements in social, economic, political, and cultural spheres. The day serves as a call to action for accelerating gender parity and working toward true equality in a just society. This year’s theme is “Break the Bias”. Bias, whether deliberate or unconscious, makes it difficult for women to move ahead. BCIT offers a free online course which aims to help us all understand ourselves and our world better through an examination of our own unconscious biases. Learn more about the Understanding Unconscious Bias course and how BCIT is contributing to SDG 5: Gender Equality: to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.

Middle Eastern woman wearing hajib gesturing Break The Bias in support of International Women's Day with female friends.

Women gesturing Break The Bias in support of International Women’s Day.

The Centre for Ecocities exemplifies the outstanding contributions that women are making in the quest to build socially just cities in balance with nature. Leading the Centre’s efforts is Dr. Jennie Moore, Director of Institute Sustainability at BCIT. As Director, Dr. Moore is committed to tackling the challenges facing humanity’s outsized ecological footprint. She created BCIT’s High Performance Building Lab and launched the Factor Four initiative on that has reduced the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of BCIT’s Burnaby campus by 50% since 2009. Whether in technological or policy change, Dr. Moore’s work helps empower individuals to take action in sustainability.

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Filed Under: Equity, Socially just

The Ecocity World Summit 2022

March 1, 2022 by Christine Pinkham Leave a Comment

The Ecocity World Summit 2022 took place February 22 – 24, 2022. It is the longest running event on ecocities in the world, and provides the tools to rebuild and bring balance to urban ecosystems. The Summit hosted about 500 attendees from 65 different countries.

The Summit takes place every two years in a different city. BCIT hosted the last Ecocity World Summit in Vancouver, BC, in 2019, from which the Centre for Ecocities was created as a legacy initiative. The event went fully online after a pandemic related postponement from its original 2021 dates.

Launch of Ecocity Centre

Group shot of attendees at the Ecocity World Summit 2019 in Vancouver, BC.

The 2022 event was hosted by Delft University with support from the keeper of the Ecocity World Summit series, Ecocity Builders. The following ecocity topics were presented at this year’s Summit by Centre team members and colleagues at BCIT.

The Remaining 60%—How to Empower Citizens to Support Climate Policy and Reduce their Footprints

  • Presenter: Cora Hallsworth, Centre for Ecocities Manager of Municipal Programs

An Integral Foundation for Ecologically Healthy Cities: Sustainability and Indigenization

  • Presenters: Kory Wilson, Executive Director, Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships and Christina Olsen, Acting Director, Centre for Ecocities

Wetland Building Workshop as Restorative Living Lab for Applied Learning on Campus – Pandemic in Mind

  • Presenter: Millie Kuyer, Assistant Instructor, Ecological Restoration, BCIT School of Construction and the Environment

Correlation between Transit Use, Pollution, and Socioeconomic Status in Major Cities

  • Presenter: Owen Anderchek, Student, Department of Computing, BCIT School of Computing & Academic Studies

Registered participants are able to access all session recordings until May 24, 2022.

The next Ecocity World Summit will be held in London, England from June 6-8, 2023.

 

Thank you for an amazing #Ecocity2022! See you in London 2023!😍

We hope you had a wonderful time as part of the Ecocity family and we look forward to seeing you in 2023! #sustainablecities #urbandesign #ecotowns #futuretowns pic.twitter.com/X1ykRl9ZBj

— Ecocity World Summit 2022 (@ecocitysummit) February 24, 2022

 

Filed Under: Ecocity Builders, Ecocity World Summit, Sustainable cities

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