Our Programs- Be The Change Earth Alliance

Explore the range of programs and learning resources available at Be the Change Earth Alliance to find the best fit for you. Click on any program to learn more, book a workshop and get involved today!

Student Leadership for Change

Student Leadership for Change

SLC: Student Leadership for Change, is our flagship education program. This comprehensive suite of eco-social learning materials helps learners understand current sustainability issues—while connecting them to specific, measurable actions that can be taken in their own lives. Sign up for free today to access these materials!

Youth for Climate Justice

Youth for Climate Justice

Youth for Climate Justice (Y4CJ) aims to equip diverse youth with essential skills, tools, and knowledge to build the capacity of youth for lifelong climate justice and advocacy. This program empowers youth (ages 12-18) across Metro Vancouver to design and launch meaningful climate justice projects in their communities.

Professional Development Workshops

Professional Development Workshops

Our professional development workshops have reached hundreds of teachers looking to explore innovative curricular and pedagogical tools that spark student inquiry into sustainability, both in and beyond the classroom. Gain a greater understanding of a values-based, action-oriented approach to environmental education and current pedagogical approaches to empower student leadership for change.

In Class Workshops

ReconnectING

ReconnectING

ReconnectING: Imagination, Nature, and Gratitude is a two hour outdoor workshop designed to help students reconnect with nature and to equip them with an understanding of gratitude and imagination as tools for restoration and resistance.

Water is Life

Water is Life

Water is Life is a 2-part workshop designed to deepen students’ understanding of the climate crisis, threats to freshwater, and the impact of both individual and community action. Both workshops involve discussion and activities to help students engage with environmental learning in an engaging new way, and leaves them with a hopeful outlook on climate action.

Youth Climate Ambassadors

Youth Climate Ambassadors

Be The Change Earth Alliance is partnered with UBC Sustainability to offer free workshops that empower Vancouver high school students to take action on climate change. By empowering young people to act and demonstrating how effective their actions can be, these workshops aim to foster a sense of agency and purpose.

Habitat Clean-Ups

Habitat Clean-Ups

Habitat clean-ups provide a fun, hands-on way for students to explore waste management while making a positive impact on their communities. These safe, educational experiences help youth understand environmental responsibility and contribute to healthier, cleaner cities.

CARE

CARE

This project engages youth and their educators to strengthen climate resilience and wellbeing in frontline communities. It empowers youth to take climate action and navigate potentially powerful climate emotions by fostering personal and community resilience, agency and regeneration.

Past Programs

Be the Change Action Network

Be the Change Action Network

Learning about the climate crisis and taking climate action can often feel isolating and overwhelming. Our map showcases people, across BC, who are learning about the climate crisis and taking action.

Sustainable Development Goals Unit

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Sustainable Development Goals Unit

The SDG Unit consists of FREE online learning resources for teachers, that helps middle & high school teachers engage their students in meaningful learning and action around the SDGs, with a specific focus on six important and interconnected goals.

Climate Action Unit

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Climate Action Unit

The Climate Action Unit consists of FREE online learning resources for teachers. This Unit provides students with up to date resources on Climate Change related issues and emphasize the powerful role that they can play in transforming our societies and communities to address climate change.

Climate and Connection Unit

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Climate and Connection Unit

The Climate & Connection Unit consists of FREE online learning resources for teachers, specifically designed for remote and home learning. Through this Unit, explore how to take climate action, and how to find deeper connection to self, our values, other people, and the natural world.

Action Guide

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Action Guide

The Be The Change Action Guide is your map to an exciting journey of personal choices, leading you to an empowered lifestyle and expanded worldview that will help sustain your health, your spirit, and the planet. It covers a full range of lifestyle choices and helps us become aware of how every single action we take either supports or undermines our vision for a sustainable, just and fulfilling future for all life.

Rain Garden

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Rain Garden

Be the Change Earth Alliance guided youth in creating 3 Rain Gardens. Through rain gardens, youth gained knowledge on the importance of protecting freshwater ecosystems, threats to freshwater ecosystems, and how they can participate in a local solution.

Youth Action Tracker and Map

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Youth Action Tracker and Map

The Youth Action Map collects and displays stories of projects that students have tried or completed to make their schools and communities more sustainable!

Reclaiming the Environmental Narrative

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Reclaiming the Environmental Narrative

Reclaiming the Environmental Narrative (REN) supported a cohort of BIPOC youth (aged 14-24) to each develop a multimedia storytelling project that explores their relationship with nature, the climate crisis, and the environmental challenges that are important to them and their community.

Youth for Climate Action

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Youth for Climate Action

Youth for Climate Action (Y4CA) aims to help tackle both climate change and youth ecological despair. Through Y4CA, Be the Change Earth Alliance empowered teams of Vancouver youth (ages 14-18) to design and implement meaningful climate action projects in their communities.

Climate Action Champions Initiative

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Climate Action Champions Initiative

Climate Action Champion (CAChI) is a groundbreaking initiative to educate and engage youth in individual, home, school, and neighbourhood climate actions. Assembly presentations, in-class workshops, curricular resources, an online action and engagement portal, and a Climate Action Week engage 20,000 students, their peers, families, and neighbours in the importance of taking action for the climate in 2018.

Citizens of the Future

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Citizens of the Future

Building on our Climate Action Champions initiative, CotF empowers at-risk youth and emerging sustainability leaders through hands-on climate education and leadership training. We deliver workshops, assemblies, and mentorship programs that support youth in launching their own environmental projects. Volunteers are trained to present on climate action, and student-led initiatives are showcased to inspire lasting change in schools and communities.

Social Innovation & Education Research

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Social Innovation & Education Research

BTCEA’s Founding Director, Maureen Jack-LaCroix, leads Ph.D. research into social innovation interventions within B.C.’s education system. The focus: cultivating school cultures that nurture environmentally conscious citizens. Through Social Innovation Lab technology, BTCEA has launched a community-action research process that brings together educators and stakeholders to share expertise, co-create school-based initiatives, and prototype projects that inspire lasting, sustainable change.

Waste Watchers

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Waste Watchers

Waste Watchers is a suite of educational resources and activities designed to engage and empower students to lead local zero waste solutions. Tailored for leadership classes and environmental clubs, these tools empower youth to take meaningful action toward helping their schools achieve zero waste. Rooted in issues like climate change and resource depletion, our approach inspires behavior change and supports students in championing sustainability at school, at home, and in their communities.

Symposium

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Symposium

The Awaken and Change Symposium is a powerful multimedia experience that weaves together the insights of global thought leaders like Julia Butterfly Hill, Paul Hawken, Brian Swimme, Maude Barlowe, Van Jones, and Desmond Tutu. Guided by trained facilitators, participants engage with rich audiovisual content, cutting-edge information, and reflective exercises to explore urgent questions about our relationship with the Earth—and what it means to live sustainably and consciously in today’s world.

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