Teaching with Climate Insight: Integrating Climate-Ready Housing and Infrastructure into your Curriculum
Join the Waterloo Climate Institute and ICLEI Canada’s Sheri Young for an interactive virtual tour of climateinsight.ca — a groundbreaking platform for exploring climate-ready housing and infrastructure across Canada. Discover practical tools, data, and case studies you can integrate into your courses in Planning, Engineering, Architecture, Accounting, and beyond. Learn how to engage students with real-world climate challenges and connect with colleagues from across the country who are advancing climate education in post-secondary settings. This event is part of the Climate Institute's Accelerating Climate Education (ACE) project funded by Natural Resource Canada's Climate Change Adaptation Program.
Workshop Objectives:
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To explore ICLEI's climateinsight.ca platform and how it can be integrated into the postsecondary curriculum in Planning, Engineering, Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Accounting and more.
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To provide a space for educators to connect and create a professional learning community
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To inspire us all to evolve our practice!
Facilitators:
Sheri Young
In her role as Project Director of ClimateInsight.ca, Sheri brings a broad perspective of climate mitigation, adaptation, and nature-based solutions to ICLEI. With 25 years’ experience in environment and sustainability, Sheri undertook her first emissions calculations in 2002. Since then, she has worked on land reclamation and restoration, air quality and climate emissions, contributed to global assessments on biodiversity and land degradation, led the first natural asset inventory and valuation project in Alberta, and advanced sustainability and climate action across sectors including municipal and provincial government, post-secondary education, and energy companies. Sheri is based out of Calgary on Treaty 7 lands, and works with communities across Turtle Island to integrate local knowledge and perspectives into this nationally-available resource platform.
Michèle Martin
Michèle is the training program specialist at the Waterloo Climate Institute. Her role is to support university-wide climate change educational programming, as well as to advance and coordinate external professional development and training opportunities. Michele has over thirty years' experience in sustainability and climate change education and capacity building in Canada and internationally and holds a PhD in Environmental Studies from York University. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the department of Geography and Environmental Management.