TAKE ACTION THROUGH Living planet @campus

Every year millions of people, campuses, businesses and landmarks set aside an hour, switch off their lights and make noise for the Earth Hour movement. Last year, participants from 30 countries answered our call to action and participated in Earth Hour. Find out how you can celebrate Earth Hour with WWF-Canada.

From bikeshare programs to online paperless banking, creative innovations are quickly enhancing our daily lives, including how we shop, commute, learn, access entertainment and connect with others. These big shifts have had positive impacts for the environment. Connect, create and innovate with your ideas for a more sustainable future at WWF’s annual Designing Change for a Living Planet conference.

Do you have an idea to help nature thrive on your campus? Can you suggest ways your faculty, campus club or student residence can help protect and restore habitats and ecosystems in your campus community?

80% of plastic in the ocean originates on land. Garbage and litter don’t belong in aquatic habitats and aquatic species suffer as a result. The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is Canada’s largest direct-action conservation program, engaging tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff volunteers to stop litter in its tracks.

Create a space on campus or in your own home where nature can thrive. When enhanced with the right native plants, spaces big and small can become habitats and healthy corridors for native birds, bees, butterflies and other wildlife. Get started with a garden plot on campus or by creating a container garden in residence.

Living Planet @ Campus gives you the tools to stand out. Earn the WWF Living Planet Leader certification by bringing sustainability forward in your daily life on campus and in your local community.  Feature Living Planet Leader on your resume and LinkedIn, demonstrating that you have the skills and experience to organize and contribute to positive change where you live, learn and where you will work.

Whether you are on campus, work part-time or are completing a co-op placement, as a post-secondary student you can inspire those around you to use technology sustainable ways that save resources and inspire others into action, all while helping nature thrive.

Do you have an idea to make campus life more sustainable, connect to nature, or help make your community more resilient to climate change? Tell us your idea for the chance to work directly with WWF-Canada to showcase your sustainability initiative on Living Planet @ Campus.