Education · Sustainability · Community

Supports:

Regenerative Development & Healthy Community in the Rapidly Changing 21st Century World

VISION: The Green Technology Education Centre is at the forefront of solutions to the social and environmental challenges of our time.

MISSION: GTEC informs, supports and activates communities in responding to the climate crisis.

Our Values:

We are engaged in promoting environmental sustainability and regeneration through community development and education.
We regard working in partnership with the Indigenous community as an integral part of responding to climate change.
We believe that climate change requires new social, economic, and business practices.
We recognize that social and emotional resilience is a critical part of responding to climate change.
We value diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
We aspire to act in thoughtful, effective, and proactive ways.
We value consensus decision making and collaboration.

Current Programs

See all Ongoing and Past Programs Here

Collaborative Transformation: Decreasing heat-health impacts in vulnerable populations using health delivery lenses!

GTEC is working with the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care in implementing the Coalition’s Heat Adapt grant in BC. By collaborating directly with healthcare workers, patients, and organizations representing at-risk/vulnerable populations, this project aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of the current and future implications of extreme heat in the health care system. Qualitative and quantitative data will be collected and analyzed from various health care settings, including acute care, long term care and hospital settings to gain a wide breadth of data across the sector. This will be used to develop practical and actionable indoor heat adaptation interventions. Work focuses on translating findings into disaster planning and transformative scenario planning.

Climate Response Centre

Canada’s first Climate Response Centre to be located in Vancouver will be a source of relevant and accessible educational and community development programming, a template for communities throughout B.C. and a centre of evolving community-based expertise about responding to climate change. This Response Centre is designed to serve as the hub of the GTEC Community-based, Collaborative Model.

GTEC Community-based Collaborative Model

The GTEC Community-based, Collaborative Model envisions educating, activating and supporting community-based organizations in two interconnected ways based on a hub and spoke model.
See the Community Based Collaborative model for more information.

GTEC Reader

The Reader is GTEC’s online, free access arts and culture publication focused on the climate crisis. Now in its 5th year the Reader, the GTEC Reader is published on a quarterly basis. Subscribers receive each issue in their email inbox.

See the current GTEC Reader – Volume 5, Issue 2

See GTEC Reader Past Issues Here