About Jennifer Keesmaat As Chief Planner and Executive Director of the City of Toronto, Jennifer Keesmaat (MES ’99) has changed the local dialogue on planning and urban design from frustrations and complaints about planning into an energized conversation full of hope and optimism for North America’s fifth largest city. Her dedication, energy and visionary approach […]
About Sabrina Dias Sabrina Dias started her career as a ceramic engineer, and while she found the work interesting she knew she wanted her work make an impact around social good, and she felt she needed more than her engineering degree to make it happen. She went back to school to get her MES and […]
About Anique Jordan Anique Jordan’s vision and voice is making a remarkable impact in Toronto’s art community very early in her art career. Interested in alternative systems of survival, she started her MES with the intent of continuing her work in entrepreneurship and Community Economic Development with Black communities as an urban planner. Calling her time […]
About Bruce Lourie “I was a student in [York] Professor Peter Victor’s ecological economics class, where I learned that the economy isn’t just a thing on its own,” says alumnus and activist, Bruce Lourie. “The economy is a construction of society, which in turn is bounded by our environment. That’s a concept that’s still not well understood and […]
About Roberto del Castillo Fighting environmental crime with INTERPOL A self-described devil’s advocate, Roberto del Castillo says EUC taught him how to write and hone the critical thinking skills necessary for his role in project management and partnership development with INTERPOL (International Crime Police Organization). From wildlife poaching and the illegal trade in controlled animal […]
About Nicole Piercey While alumna Nicole Piercey’s career path might not have an obvious flow, she can tie a common thread of following her passions and a theme of public education and environmental outreach through it all.Piercey had originally applied to Education at York U and was offered Environmental Studies as an alternate when she […]
On Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m., the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) will host Earth Day with YorkU. This virtual event will honour Earth Day 2022 and highlight the positive change EUC is making for people and the planet. As a community, EUC believes that making positive change requires bold and diverse thinking, […]
In 2021, the York Las Nubes project in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) launched the Grounded project in collaboration with the York Faculty of Health, York International, York Libraries, and Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN) of Costa Rica, San Carlos Campus. Indeed, community is at the heart of York’s Las Nubes EcoCampus such […]
How have universities integrated the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and what lessons might be learned and applied therein? This is the key question that Nicole Arsenault, MES alumnus and Program Director of York’s Office of Sustainability, sought to address in her MES Paper on The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating […]