Vocational instructors are challenged by tightly controlled curriculum that makes adding additional content pertaining to sustainability a challenge. This presentation provides a few examples from colleagues at BCIT who have found some interesting and innovative ways.

Presented by Dr. Jennie Moore

Dr. Jennie Moore is Director, Institute Sustainability at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and leads its Ecocity Centre of Excellence. She was the program convenor of the 2019 Ecocity World Summit held in Vancouver and serves as a core advisor to the International Ecocity Standards. Dr. Moore is the creator of the ecoCity Footprint tool that helps cities and citizens identify pathways to sustainable consumption and lifestyles. She serves on the UN Habitat Urban Monitoring Framework Task Team and leads the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Technical Working Group on the Tele-coupled impacts of cities on global biodiversity. Previously Dr. Moore was Metro Vancouver’s first Air Quality Planner in charge of climate action, first Demand Side Management Planner curbing consumption to address bioregional capacity, and first coordinator of the Sustainable Region Initiative developing a sustainability framework to coordinate and guide development of regional plans.