The Sierra Youth Coalition is a Canadian organization run by youth for youth, serving as the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. We are a group of inspired and committed youth who desire to see the working realities of sustainability integrated into the daily operations of life around us. We...
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The Sierra Youth Coalition is a Canadian organization run by youth for youth, serving as the youth arm of the Sierra Club of Canada. We are a group of inspired and committed youth who desire to see the working realities of sustainability integrated into the daily operations of life around us. We target solutions, we identify problems and we are building a new reality.

SYC unites youth who care about the world around them. Working independently and through our networks, we work with youth to challenge the injustices that surround us, to lobby decision-makers and encourage youth to become decision makers ourselves, and most importantly, inspire ourselves and our fellow Canadians to act. Alongside promoting sustainable lifestyle choices, we work to transform high schools, universities, and governments into models of sustainability.

Meaningful change occurs through the grassroots power of people. Join SYC to strategize, organize, mobilize and become part of a youth community - locally, regionally and nationally!
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Sustainable Campuses is a national initiative that inspires, informs, trains, and supports Canadian students working toward social equity, ecological integrity and economic prosperity on their campuses.

These changes are achieved through changing institutional operations,...
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Sustainable Campuses is a national initiative that inspires, informs, trains, and supports Canadian students working toward social equity, ecological integrity and economic prosperity on their campuses.

These changes are achieved through changing institutional operations, improving curricula and mobilising campus community members’ support.

Since 1998, the Sustainable Campuses project has worked with thousands of students from across Canada in order to:
* Change environmental and social practices on Canadian campusesrn
* Empower youth to influence decision makers

The Sierra Youth Coalition’s Community Youth Action Project (CYAP) aims to inform, activate and empower Canadian youth (ages 14-19) to undertake projects leading to ecological and social well being in their own communities. We seek to build awareness, community and leadership skills for environmental and social justice year-round through:
* summer & winter gatheringsrn
* informing youth of current News & Eventsrn
* supporting youth groups and clubsrn
* creating and distributing resource materials and information on current issuesrn
* presenting workshops in high school classrooms and at youth events.


The Sustainable High Schools Project (SHS) is a youth driven adaptation of SYC's Sustainable Campuses project. The SHS BC Pilot Project has been run in collaboration with the Sierra Club BC Chapter since September 2006, and we are pleased to announce SYC has now hired a Coordinator to run SHS in Ottawa!rnrnSHS aims to bring together secondary students, teachers, and administrators who want to make their high school communities models of sustainability. It empowers students to lead initiatives that will generate greater social, ecological and economic sustainability through infrastructure upgrades, additions to curricula and enhancing community members' ability to communicate and work together to achieve a common vision.

The Campus Climate Challenge is a project of more than 40 leading youth organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada. The Challenge leverages the power of young people to organize on college campuses and high schools across Canada and the U.S. to win 100% Clean Energy policies at their schools. The Challenge is growing a generation-wide movement to stop global warming, by reducing the pollution from our high schools and colleges down to zero, and leading our society to a clean energy future.
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Get involved in the Community Youth Action Project:

director@syc-cjs.org

Take steps to make your high school a more sustainable community:

natalie@syc-cjs.org

Organize to institutionalize social, economic and ecological sustainability on...
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Get involved in the Community Youth Action Project:

director@syc-cjs.org

Take steps to make your high school a more sustainable community:

natalie@syc-cjs.org

Organize to institutionalize social, economic and ecological sustainability on your college or university campus:

National Coordinator for Sustainable Campuses,
national@syc-cjs.org

Atlantic Coordinator for SC,
atlantic@syc-cjs.org

Quebec Coordinator for SC,
quebec@syc-cjs.org

Quebec Regional Coordinator, Campus Climate Challenge
climat@syc-cjs.org

Ontario Coordinator for SC,
ontario@syc-cjs.org

Prairies Coordinator for SC,
prairies@syc-cjs.org

BC Coordinator for SC,
bc@syc-cjs.org

There are several ways that you can become a member of Sierra Youth Coalition:

1. Print out a membership form and send it and $20 to the SYC office, or use the secure-sign up form located on the Sierra Club of Canada website. Make sure you check the youth box! Get 40% all your VIA Rail tickets when you become a member!

2. Start an SYC group in your community. Register two individual paid members, fill out one group form and everyone within the group becomes associate members. Associate SYC members are included in the list of SYC members and can be active in SYC campaigns, events, and activities under the SYC name. They can be added to the SYC email list and submit articles for the homepage. Associate SYC members are not considered Sierra Club members and can’t vote in SYC or Sierra Club elections unless they become paid members. They will not receive regular SYC or Sierra Club mail-outs but should get the information through their group. All member names, including associate members, should be registered with the national office.rnrn3. Finally, your campus group or existing environmental or social justice organization can become a Coalition Partner.
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