Challenges

From ClimateNetworkWiki

Go Beyond Challenges is one of the four pillars of the goBEYOND and is about offering adaptable projects for campus organizations that want to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while engaging their community. The goBEYOND Challenge is the cornerstone of this pillar.

The goBEYOND Challenge

The Challenge is to go beyond climate-neutral today so our society can become climate-neutral tomorrow. By the middle of this century – within the adult lifetime of today’s students – our global society must build a world that creates virtually no carbon emissions. The Challenge is to re-imagine our future together, take action in our personal lives today, and work together to make a climate-neutral future a reality.

How do you go beyond climate-neutral? Take responsibility for how you are spending the carbon budget by making choices and creating a plan to become climate-neutral. Take opportunities to work with people and organizations to create large solutions together.

Take the goBEYOND Challenge!

Residence Reduction Challenge

Campus residences provide an ideal place to engage students in sustainability and energy conservation practices that they will take beyond residence life. Firstly, living in residence offers a once-in-a-lifetime experience for students, many of whom are living on their own for the first time and cultivating their own unique lifestyles. By reaching students in the space in which they live, work, and learn, we can give them the tools to develop more sustainable habits in their daily lives. Secondly, residences also act as microcosms of larger communities, allowing students to contribute their own strengths to sustainability issues. These actions positively affect the larger community as residents help their campuses reduce their overall energy footprints.

Several Residence Halls have sustainability programs. If you would like to learn more, or are interested in starting a program on your campus, please contact mbaynham (at) campusclimatenetwork.org

Invent the Future Contest

Invent the Future will create an outlet for youth to express innovative ideas on behavioural or technological energy conservation and climate change solutions through a video or essay contest submission. In partnership with BC Hydro and GIFTS Film School, Go Beyond will provide support for students who would like to make a submission, and offer resources and networks for those that would like to take their idea and make it a reality. Submit your ideas now!