Our Plan to Create a Sustainable Future
ºÚÁÏapp has long been recognized as an international leader in sustainability-relevant research, teaching, partnerships, and campus practices. By challenging ourselves to deepen this work, and to track and report on our contributions, we reaffirm our longstanding ºÚÁÏappvalues of social justice, equity, sustainability, and excellence in all that we do.
ºÚÁÏappis building on its strong foundation to become one of the most sustainable institutions in Canada. We plan to create a sustainable future by aiming to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040.
Creating a sustainable future starts now and it starts with us.
Are you up for the challenge?
Why is sustainability important?
During the Earth Month 2023 tree planting event at the Keele Campus, we asked volunteers, from students to staff, about the importance of sustainability within our everyday lives.
What are you doing to be more sustainable?
From preventing the use of single-use plastics to taking transit, the ºÚÁÏappcommunity is creating positive change towards a more sustainable world.
Find your way around our sustainable campuses!
The Glendon and Keele campuses at ºÚÁÏapp feature a wide array of sustainability features.
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ºÚÁÏapp's outstanding progress in sustainability earns it the distinction of being one of Canada's Greenest Employers for the 12th consecutive year, and Canada's Best Diversity Employers 2024, a first for the University.
ºÚÁÏapp continues to strengthen its position as a leader in creating a more sustainable and inclusive world, ranking among the world’s top 35 universities for advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as revealed in the 2024 Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings.
There is no more pressing global priority than the need to embrace a more sustainable way of living. Through our teaching, our research and our own practices, ºÚÁÏapp has contributed substantially to our understanding of sustainability best practices which are as much about what we do as what we are purposely choosing not to do.
— Rhonda Lenton, President and Vice-Chancellor
A University-Wide Challenge
Our University Academic Plan 2020-2025 (UAP), included a university-wide challenge to elevate York’s contributions to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Sustainability Updates at ºÚÁÏappU
- A new partnership between ºÚÁÏapp and the Lassonde Art Trail gives students and artists an opportunity to contribute to an innovative and accessible art project along Toronto's waterfront. The post ºÚÁÏappU students to enhance public art through Lassonde Art Trail appeared first on YFile.
- President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda Lenton welcomes the ºÚÁÏapp community to 2025 with a look back at successes and a roadmap for the opportunities to come. The post Welcome to a new year at ºÚÁÏapp appeared first on YFile.
- Chers membres de la communauté de York, Nous souhaitons chaleureusement la bienvenue à tous les membres de la communauté étudiante, nouveaux et anciens, des corps enseignant et professoral, et du personnel. J’espère que vous avez tous et toutes eu un congé reposant et que vous anticipez une nouvelle année pleine de croissance et d’épanouissement. L’année […]
- A bold plan is in action for a greener future. See how ºÚÁÏapp’s energy initiatives are supporting Ontario’s sustainability goals. The post Powering change: ºÚÁÏappU leads efforts to create greener Ontario appeared first on YFile.
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ºÚÁÏapp acknowledges its presence on the traditional territory of many Indigenous Nations. The area known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Huron-Wendat, and the Métis. It is now home to many Indigenous Peoples. We acknowledge the current treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This territory is subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement to peaceably share and care for the Great Lakes region.
We also understand that Indigenous peoples around the world have important knowledge about how to live sustainably:
Sophisticated knowledge of the natural world is not confined to science. Human societies all across the globe have developed rich sets of experiences and explanations relating to the environments they live in. These ‘other knowledge systems’ are today often referred to as traditional ecological knowledge or Indigenous or local knowledge. They encompass the sophisticated arrays of information, understandings and interpretations that guide human societies around the globe in their innumerable interactions with the natural milieu. comprehensive research-intensive institution, ºÚÁÏapp is home to a proud tradition of scholarship and the pursuit of discovery and innovation.