Students at UNBC crowded the hallways to show people different ways to battle climate change.
The 2018 Green Day event is about generating future ideas when it comes to the environment, some of the displays ranged from electric cars, composting, to adopting a plants.
Student Ana Saenz was promoting how Veganism can help fight climate change.
“One person not eating animals can save up to 582 lives a year. A dairy farm produces the same amount of waste as a city of 400,000 people. You might think one person won’t make a change, but it really does.”
Animal agriculture is the number one leading cause of climate change.
“Being able to stop or even reduce our meat consumption, we would be able to solve the development of climate change sooner than if we were to stop green house gas emissions through cars, planes, or factories.”
Green Day celebrations started back in 2008, and has steadily grown in popularity among students.
President Daniel Weeks says this event shows why UNBC is Canada’s green university.
“This is an initiative that’s certainly catching across Canada. Other universities are following UNBC’s lead and really devoting a bit of their energy towards acknowledged Canada’s Green Day.”
Weeks added he was fascinated to see how much this event means to students and people of the north.
Green Day is being held in the UNBC Winter Garden until 3pm.
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