Sustainability
Sustainability matters at Innis. We’ve been rolling up our sleeves and doing the work since the 70s, when our college founded U of T’s Environmental Studies Program. Even our college colour is green! But our commitment to a more restorative relationship with the natural world goes much deeper.
Whether you are an avid green thumb, a food security advocate, or looking to minimize your own ecological footprint, Innis’s ever-growing Sustainability portfolio, led by our steward, Cedar MacTavish, has something for you.
The Innis sustainability steward can connect your passion with hands-on opportunities
Cedar MacTavish
Sustainability Steward
I work to build on the College’s legacy by expanding the range of sustainability principles and practices across the Innis community. I facilitate sustainability-focused events and advocate for sustainable solutions, spaces, and opportunities at Innis.
Our participatory framework for sustainability
From climate action to human wellbeing, sustainability is a multi-faceted and evolving concept. Here at Innis, we organize our efforts into five themes, or priorities. Explore opportunities to engage with these themes by using the dropdown menu below.
We commit to reducing our individual and collective ecological footprints by reducing material waste through effective identification, prevention, and diversion practices.
We aim to bring sustainability education to your academic and co-curricular settings, with an emphasis on experience-based learning and preparing you to be an active agent for change.
In line with climate action recommendations, we commit to continually monitoring and reducing the CO2 emissions we generate directly through our own infrastructure and operations, and indirectly through our external connections and influences.
Through outreach and collaboration, we strive to connect our local sustainability action to knowledge, initiatives, and leaders found across the U of T landscape, and beyond. When we widen our perspective and form external partnerships, we also raise Innis’s public sustainability profile.
We commit to a model of sustainability that is ecological and social. By pushing our efforts beyond mitigating negative impacts or neutralizing carbon footprints, we can actively restore relationships between human and natural worlds, and empower the participation of whole communities.