SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

NZEB Construction and Green Skills | College of FET

Grand Central Terminal, a historic transportation hub and architectural marvel, faces unique waste management challenges due to its 750,000 daily commuters and visitors. The constant flow of travelers, numerous food vendors, and retail establishments creates significant waste streams that often overwhelm existing disposal systems. While the terminal maintains a relatively clean appearance thanks to dedicated maintenance staff, behind-the-scenes waste sorting and recycling efforts struggle to keep pace with volume. Our mapping reveals hotspots near food courts and main concourses where improved bin placement, clearer signage, and strategic waste collection points could dramatically improve recycling rates and reduce contamination. Grand Central represents a perfect opportunity to demonstrate how efficient waste management systems can function effectively even in high-traffic urban environments.

To catalyze and mobilize research, partnerships, and knowledge that generate climate action. The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions aims to catalyze and mobilize research, partnerships, and knowledge that advance mitigation and adaptation at the intersection of: 1. Justice, Wellbeing, and Biodiversity 2. Policy, Practice, and Technology 3. Communities and Place.

NatuR&D is a nature-inspired design company. NatuR&D builds partnerships, facilitates innovation processes, introduces biomimicry to teams, schools and communities.

The UVic Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders (CCSL) program offers an immersive learning experience for graduate students seeking to advance climate solutions. Bridging across the sciences, engineering, social sciences, business, and law, this program delivers enriched interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral training to prepare the next generation of leaders with the knowledge, experience, and skills needed to rise to the challenge of climate change. We are always looking to partner with Vicotira organizations to deliver novel, community-engaged training opportunitites.

Charity shop whose proceeds benefit the Oxfam organisation, offering a wide variety of secondhand books. From fiction to non-fiction to vintage books, Oxfam bookshops are famous for their amazing finds!

Scottish Canals is the official body that (in their own words) "look[s] after the Scottish canals, conserving them as part of our heritage, & transforming them to play a vital role in Scotland today." The offices are located on the banks of the Glasgow Canal that stretches across Glasgow City, this canal, itself, being a section of the Forth & Clyde Canal that crosses central Scotland.

Founded in 1451, University of Glasgow is the fourth-oldest in the UK & the second-oldest in Scotland, with more (architecturally) 'listed' buildings than any other university in the UK. Originally located in the High Street in Glasgow City Centre, UofG was relocated in 1870 to its current location in Glasgow's West End. At that time, the West End consisted of countryside, farms, & country-houses of Glasgow's most wealthy citizens, & adding UofG to the area was a significant part of the city's expansion, by adding the academic elite to the location's social landscape which expanded the horizon for those who might have otherwise remained in City Centre.

The Sustainable Development Goals in aciton on Governros Island; sustainable cities, eco justice organizations, good health and well being, life on land, climate action, life below water. 

This urban farm grows many fruits and vegetables. The diverse plant life is good for birds, bees, and butterflies. The farm contributes to the school's composting efforts. Students who work on the farm engage in hands-on work, encouraging them to engage in sustainable practices. New York Harbor School students and the Marine Affairs Program complete this greening operation. More info here.  https://harborpolicy.org/

A contracting company that provides heating and air conditioning services.

Potential site to build small units for small businesses / self employed

Potential site to build small units for small businesses / self employed 

A potential location for a much needed new High School

Eco focused RIBA Chartered Practice, they work with both developers & private clients to create award-winning buildings which have as little environmental impact as possible, including the retrofit of historic buildings. https://www.ecotecture.co.uk/

Back in the '50's, it was a mill. My dad worked through the depression as planer mill foreman. I started working at 14 at a table bundling lumber. I worked for the summer and then went back to school.

As a kid, my father would take me and my brother down to the Bay St. Bridge, to watch the cranes shovel and move gravel with the huge bucket. Us brothers were so inspired, now I work in the very same yard. My brother works the crane loading the barge that lines the Gorge waterway.

My grandfather immigrated from Scotland and moved into a bungalow off the Gorge. Shortly thereafter, he acquired a job at FBM on Alpha St. One of his tasks was laborious: he shoveled coal from a "coal car" and wheel barrowed it into the store room.

Father worked here 1944 (Carmen Pascoe, his son, now living in Fairfield). Bought a house on Balmoral for $300 in the 1930's.

I had a good job here for a while. Then, just like that, I couldn't work and became houseless. I was grateful for the job.

The UVic Map Shop is a community-campus initiative dedicated to collaborative place-based learning and mapping. Operated by the Department of Geography, the Map Shop's mission is to facilitate processes for community engagement, student learning, globally-relevant research, and sustainable community planning through participatory community mapping. This is achieved through engaging students, community members, Indigenous partners, and other participants both locally and globally in classroom-based and field-based courses, workshops, map-making, internship opportunities, scholarly research, publications, summits, and conference participation.

CIFAL Victoria delivers training activities and research that build on UVic's commitments to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). It connects the region with the global community and supports international knowledge-sharing and partnerships, with a focus on four key themes:

Known colloquially as the 'Squiggly Bridge' because it makes a slight 'S' shape when viewed from above, the Tradeston footbridge is a pedestrian bridge that crosses the River Clyde, linking the Anderston area (on the North bank of the river) with Tradeston (on the South bank of the river).