Green Technology Education Centre
Registered Name: Green Technology Education Centre of Greater Vancouver Society
Business No: 718419294RR0001
This organization is designated by Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) as a registered charity. They comply with the CRA's requirements and have been issued a charitable registration number.
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Our objectives are to develop education, promote sustainability and support the community and our youth in response to the climate crisis.
Our Mission:
The Green Technology Education Centre (GTEC) informs, activates and supports communities in responding to the climate crisis.
Our Vision:
GTEC is at the forefront of emerging solutions to the social and environmental challenges in our time.
Our Values:
- We are engaged in promoting environmental sustainability and regeneration through community development and education.
- We regard working in partnership with the Indigenous community as an integral part of responding to climate change.
- We believe that climate change requires new social, economic, and business practices.
- We recognize that social and emotional resilience is a critical part of responding to climate change.
- We value diversity, inclusion, and social justice.
- We aspire to act in thoughtful, effective, and proactive ways.
- We value consensus decision making and collaboration.
Current projects:
Neighbourhood in the 21st Century Exhibit
Learn how climate change is impacting your neighbourhood and discover actions that you can take through the compelling art installations in the Neighbourhood in the 21st Century exhibit. Students at the Fraser Academy have created powerful narratives and visual images for the exhibit that illustrate how students see their world now and in the future. This exhibit kicks off the opening of the Climate Response Centre in October 2026.
Climate Response Centre
Canada’s first Climate Response Centre will open as a ‘pop-up’ in the new Arbutus Neighbourhood House. It will feature an exhibit entitled Neighbourhood in the 21st Century and it will present a view of a climate change ready future in neighbourhoods through artist contributions from children and youth from the Fraser Academy. The Climate Response Centre will deliver educational experiences designed to accelerate the shift to a regenerative, just and resilient society.
The Climate Response Centre (CRC) will serve as a template for future Centres to be located across the city and Province. The CRC will be a centre of evolving community-based expertise about responding to climate change.
Past projects:
During the COVID-19 pandemic, GTEC shifted to online programs using its AI mediated application. GTEC partnered with two BC high schools in delivering its Emotive BC-funded GenZ Goes Electric program.
Over the summer of 2020, the GTEC Council for a Green New Economy produced a well received report entitled Rebuilding BC. Here is what people are saying about Rebuilding BC -
“Rebuilding BC contains a host of terrific ideas – policy recommendations well worth our government considering and implementing. These are the kinds of policy innovations, grounded in justice and the climate emergency, that we need right now.”
SETH KLEIN, Writer and Policy Analyst
“The COVID-19 lockdown not only gave nature a chance to recover from the human onslaught, we had to slow down and think about what really matters. We must not try to go back to business-as-usual pre-COVID-19. We have to use the crisis as an opportunity to move to a real path of balance and sustainability. Rebuilding BC is just such a blueprint, a chance to get it right. We must not ignore it.”
DAVID SUZUKI grandfather
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