Advancing Sustainability Education

Hi, I am an Acadia University student from labrador city, Labrador. I like to participate in new projects, read a variety of topics, and pick up new hobbies. I also really love my labrador retriever.

Most of my experiences learning about sustainability and the development goals was in classes with Professor Kent Williams. He tries to incorporate the goals for change in our future as we (the students) are the new industry professionals. We can change how businesses think about mindfulness in the future.

I like to use class teachings, related articles, and personal experiences to develop what ever I am thinking.

Projects

For my art piece Idea, I was hoping to find a way to have a physical element to show my school’s contribution.

My thought process for this is to focus on the topic of revive, regrowth and growing from “nothing”. I am leaning towards a flower life timeline but with reused materials. Ideally I would be showing the life cycle of a dandelion as it is seen as a weed by some, and a hope for summer by others. The flower tends to multiply my sending seeds in every direction like I would hope the sustainability project does.

I want to try to promote growing your own seeds and portraying a “start somewhere” mindset. At Arcadia, we are trying to identify what can be changed for the health and wellbeing of students, and how nature and connections to the “roots” with exposure to plants can change how a student feels and adapts to their work environment. The hope is to change the campus culture to be more sustainable and adaptive; to changing goals and the ideals of an active, well, student lifestyle.