Credit: Sherry Prenevost
Team: Craig Verner, Myles Chang
Who: Team Y.Not.NIMBY (Y Not Nature In My BackYard) are employees from the YMCA of Greater Toronto. They work with a variety of community members who use YMCA services like the Newcomer Center in Toronto. With the diversity present in this network, they provide a stage for people to connect and share experience from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Why: Team Y.Not.NIMBY believes that the best way to foster a positive environmental attitude is to get people involved and interacting and connecting with their environment, sharing ideas about what it means to be sustainable and how biodiversity and our natural habitat play a role in our future.
What: Through a series of workshops, the team's goal is to engage people in their networks to become active stewards and advocates for the Rouge. Their plan is to provide progressive learning that builds off previous sessions and encourages participants and their families get outside and get involved. Possible themes include habitat restoration, river clean-ups and invasive species.
