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College of Sustainability

Community Engagement

Our Partnerships

HÂþ»­'s emphasis on community-based learning in the ESS (Environment, Sustainability and Society) curriculum has created many exciting and diverse opportunities for students to work with municipal, provincial and federal governments, businesses, and the not-for-profit sector.

Current partners include:

  • Alternatives Journal
  • Brigadoon Village
  • Canadian Youth Climate Coalition
  • Clean Nova Scotia
  • Climate Change Directorate, NS Environment
  • Credit Union Atlantic (CUA)
  • Ecology Action Centre
  • Halifax Seaport Farmers' Market
  • Haida Gwai Semester
  • Nova Scotia Business Journal
  • Nova Scotia Environmental Network
  • Nova Scotia Nature Trust
  • UNEP Visions for Change
  • YMCA

Interested in partnering with the College of Sustainability? Contact us.

Together, we are a community.

A group of ESS Capstone participants (students and community clients) stand together and smile at the camera.

2018-2019 ESS Student Capstone Team at final presentation on Duncan's Cove Nature Reserve project.
Left to right: Dylan Ames, Taylor Burns, Heather Olivella (Nova Scotia Environment Protected Areas Coordinator, Central Region), Isaac Greenberg, Brendan Maguire (MLA, Halifax Atlantic), Leah MacDonald, Alex Soontiens-Olsen, Emily Robinson and Mary-Frances Lynch (Community Development Officer).


A continued exchange of information and ideas between the College and the community is a key element in the College learning experience.  The ESS curriculum offers experiential and community engaged learning opportunities in which students apply their sustainability knowledge and increase their understanding of how to mobilize change.

The broad reach of the College's community engagement includes other departments and faculties at HÂþ»­, other universities, local and Federal government agencies, non-governmental organizations, community groups, and citizen activists throughout Nova Scotia and beyond.