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Warm welcome to our new Board of Directors!

We are thrilled to announce our new Board of Directors! These dedicated individuals bring a wealth of passion, experience, and commitment to advancing sustainability initiatives within our community.🌟 Anne Tran - Chair🌟 Heidi Kwok - Director-At-Large🌟 Ellen Watters -...

Warm welcome to our new Board of Directors!

We are thrilled to announce our new Board of Directors! These dedicated individuals bring a wealth of passion, experience, and commitment to advancing sustainability initiatives within our community.🌟 Anne Tran - Chair🌟 Heidi Kwok - Director-At-Large🌟 Ellen Watters -...
Member Survey 2020

Member Survey 2020

If you're an undergraduate, graduate student, or associate member at SFU, please take 5-10 minutes to complete this survey and help direct Embark's work!...

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The Climate Strike

The Climate Strike

Recently there has been a lot of attention on the topic of climate change and global environmental policies. With Canada’s federal election having just...

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My Thrifting Journey

My Thrifting Journey

The past When I was a kid, my mom would bring me hand-me-downs from friends and family. At the time, I saw it as uncool - nobody else I knew wanted to...

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The Water of Tomorrow

The Water of Tomorrow

Chemical X Minerals from our Earth’s crust were important ingredients of life’s recipe. Charles Darwin’s “warm little pond” vision - is being proved...

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BLOG POST SUBMISSION

What type of content can you submit? Writers are encouraged to share sustainability through their lens and take any interesting thought, story or idea and create content.
It could be features, articles, interviews, poetry/prose, dispatches, reviews, photography, illustration, and/or videography.

The only requirement is that the created content falls under one of the following Embark Sustainability priority areas or their intersections:

  • Climate Equity
  • Food Justice
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  • Write about what you are passionate about and that aligns with priority areas. Or challenge yourself in creating something new. 
  • Think critically rather than just making statements.
  • Be creative.
KEEPING JUSTICE, EQUITY, DECOLONIZATION, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION IN MIND

Ask yourself the following questions while writing:

  • What communities does this topic affect and why?
  • What systemic barriers are involved in this topic?
  • Who benefits from the current systems in place? 
  • How does my positionality affect my understanding of this topic? How can I address this in my piece?

If you have any questions contact our Design & Communications Manager, communications@embarksustainability.org

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