CFICE’s Community Environmental Sustainability Hub
Community Co-LeadJohn Marris, Executive Director at the Trent Community Research Centre
, former Executive Director of the Trent Community Research Centre, (co-lead prior to 2016).
Academic Co-leads
Patricia Ballamingie, Associate Professor at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ University
Nadine Changfoot, Associate Professor at Trent University
CFICE RA Melissa Johnson worked with Abbey Gardens in 2015.
The Community Environmental Sustainability (CES) hub funded community-driven community-campus .
The CES hub functioned at the local level in three key communities: Ottawa, Peterborough, and Haliburton. These projects focused on:
- Increasing community environmental sustainability
- Reducing individual and collective ecological footprints, (i.e., human impact on the environment)
- Strengthening a community’s ability to deal with environmental changes
The CES hub worked from the position that community environmental sustainability needs local action at the city level because it:
- Leads to a greater ability to withstand changes in the environment (i.e. resilience)
- Reduces individual and collective ecological footprints (i.e. human impact on the environment)
- Mitigates climate change locally
Over the course of Phase I, the hub collected a lot of lessons with respect to community-campus engagement in the environmental sustainability sector. You can read about their findings in this 2-page PDF backgrounder.
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Community Environmental Sustainability News, Resources, and Research
Check out the CESÂ Hub’s news, resources, and research below.
