On Oct 27^th 2011, BurlingtonGreen Youth hosted Burlington’s Environmental Youth Conference. Held at the Royal Botanical Gardens, it was a terrific success with 300 students in attendance from 26 schools!

It was due to the generous support of the following sponsors that we were able to offer this important opportunity to Burlington Youth:

• The Halton Learning Foundation
• The Ontario Trillium Foundation
• BurlingtonGreen Environmental Association
• TD Friends of the Environment Foundation
• Burlington Transit
• Mountain Equipment Co-op
• The Halton District School Board
• Bullfrog Power
• Conservation Halton

The theme of the conference was Forests in honour of the 2011 International Year of Forests & featured an opening keynote address from Severn Cullis Suzuki. You can see her message to you in full further below. Check out some conference highlights on this video:

Thank you for your feedback...

Thank you very much to all the students and teachers who took the time to share your input via our on-line survey. We will be summarizing all the feedback and using it to help guide our event planning for 2012. A special thank you is offered to Sayo Ibsa, Jordan Dyck and Allison Paknis from Frontenac P.S. for sharing your appreciation for this event with the Burlington Post so everyone in Burlington can learn more about the Imprints Conference and how it inspires us all! See their letter here.

We asked you to guess which world renowned environmental icon sent us an inspirational video clip to share with YOU, Burlington Youth.

31% of you guessed right!

Here it is:

See Severn Cullis Suzuki's message to Burlington Youth:

Remember ~ Think Global ~Act Local ~ Change starts with YOU!

The BurlingtonGreen Youth Network