reThink Waterloo 2009
Seven Generations Challenge
Presentation October 17th at 2pm
For the past six months, forty high school students throughout the Region of Waterloo have been thinking about our needs: the food, water, shelter, transportation and other “stuff” we can’t go without. Their challenge was to study how we satisfy these needs and the impacts that come from such satisfaction.
Their challenge was also to think of how we could do better. How, by conserving, by acting consciously, and by advocating for change every day, we can all live a healthy life in a vibrant community while ensuring our grandchildren’s great-grandchildren can have the same health and vibrancy.
They have met their challenge admirably. Over the past six months they have heard from local experts and advocates of a more sustainable path, they have asked tough questions, and they have done their own research. The result of their work will be the Seven Generations Challenge: What you can do now when thinking about the future. This challenge, for everyone in our community, will consist of twelve smaller challenges in the five categories discussed above. Each challenge will inspire people to understand their impacts, to learn how to change and to take action every day.
The official launch of the “7GC” campaign will be the same day as this year’s reThink Waterloo conference at the Centre in Square on October 17th. The students will chat with the members of the public who attend the conference during the day and they will also have the special honour of presenting their challenge to the entire audience attending Dr. David Suzuki’s keynote address at 2PM.
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