Creating community in the classroom
Exploring food, community and urban sustainability—that’s the theme for this year’s Summer Institute in Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. The 20 students enrolling in this intensive seven-week course, which begins in early May, will collaborate on a project with a local partner organization to create a more sustainable community. The food theme is the starting point and connecting concepts are leadership, dialogue and action.
Janet Moore, assistant professor and a member of SFU’s sustainability advisory committee, is inviting several sustainability stakeholders as guest speakers, organizing field trips to local food projects and partnering with the SFU Local Food Project and the Vancouver Food Policy Council.
“This course is important because we all need to think carefully about how what we do in this region has implications for the entire world,” says Moore. “Our everyday food, transportation and housing choices have big impacts on future generations.”
Working closely with local green affiliates, the students will undertake long-term projects that will make positive improvements in those communities. The real legacy comes after the course finishes as students continue to do amazing things in communities locally and around the world.
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