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

Coming soon: a ‘pop up’ version of Canada’s first Climate Response Centre will appear in conjunction with the opening of Vancouver’s Arbutus Neighbourhood House (early 2026). It will feature a 5-7 day exhibit entitled Neighbourhood in the 21st Century: A Climate Adapted Future, as well as workshops, climate cafes and performances by local artists during the three month opening period. The Climate Response Centre 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.

GTEC Wildfire and Smoke Preparation Kit

The GTEC Wildfire and Smoke Preparation Kit provides organizations in the community social services and health care sectors with useful materials as they help communities across Canada face wildfires and smoke. Initially developed in conjunction with the Federation of Community Social Services of BC, it includes GTEC’s popular Preparing Your Organization for the 2025 Fire Season video, additional videos on the health impacts of wildfire and smoke and do-it-yourself air filtration systems, an Emergency Checklist and Planning Template.
Click here to download your own copy of the Wildfire and Smoke Preparation Kit.

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 6, Issue 1

See GTEC Reader Past Issues Here