Working Green: Leveraging Worker Knowledge

With rising public support for climate actions, especially from youth, school boards across the GTHA are well-positioned to adopt measures that drive emission reductions in the numerous buildings they operate. The Labour Education Centre’s Working Green project employed a “labour and management joint environmental committee” as a collaborative model to accelerate low-carbon initiatives in the Toronto District School Board. The committee included school board management, trustees, union representatives, parents and environmental non-profits with a shared interest in enabling energy efficiency measures and future climate actions.