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Aurora College has received $1.46 million in federal funding for a project that aims to raise climate change awareness among youth.
In a Thursday press release, the college said it plans to use the funds to support in-classroom and on-the-land programming for students from kindergarten to Grade 12 to learn about climate change and its impact in the NWT.
“Similar to literacy and numeracy, environmental literacy is an understanding and skill level to talk about what makes up our environment, how systems interact and work, and how having this language expands the ability of youth to engage in conversations about the environment,” stated Chris Paci, vice president of research at the Aurora Research Institute.
“By building this capacity in NWT youth, we are empowering them to be stewards of the land and advocate for the place they…
