Finding a Job Through Interpersonal Skills Built at LFS!
While people often joke about how my current job doesn’t seem to relate to my degree studying food systems, I actually got this job because of my LFS background!
A Bold Voice for Change
A Bold Voice for Change Christine Boyle (BSc Global Resource Systems 2007), a first time Councillor for the City of Vancouver, isn’tafraid to take on big issues. When announcing her decision to run, she decided to focus her campaign on tackling the growing wealth gap, housing affordability, and on strengthening community engagement. Boyle has been […]
Learning Tools for Just Food
Learning Tools for Just Food Joyce Liao and Meryn Corkery worked on a community project in LFS 350 (Land, Food, and Community II) involving equity issues in the food system and both felt a strong desire to dig deeper. So together with PhD candidate Colin Dring, theyproposed an ambitious project to build tools that everyone […]
Dylan Kennedy wins award named for his father
George Kennedy played a key role in establishing the Global Resource Systems program.
Sarah Common
The flexibility of the GRS program gave me the time to find my focus, and ultimately connect with community through land and food.
Sara Amadi
The confidence that I gained from taking leaps while in university helped me to continue doing so when I entered the real world.
Ainsley MacDougall
Classes are where I gain invaluable knowledge and make connections, but extracurricular activities have given me the leadership and organizational skills I take into all aspects of my life.
Connecting Communities Through the Culture of the Hive
Connecting Communities Through the Culture of the Hive Sarah Common (BSc Global Resource Systems 2009) is the co-founder of Hives for Humanity, a non-profit society, based in Vancouver (www.hivesforhumanity.com). The organization works to connect people to nature, their community and to themselves, through apiculture (more commonly known as beekeeping). What drew you to the Global […]
Leslie Lavkulich
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