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The Sierra Club of Canada, one of Canada鈥檚 largest and most reputable environmental organizations, has awarded two of its five annual prizes to a student and a professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, in part for their work on the 鈥淪ustainable 17吃瓜鈥� project.

Joshua S. Darrach, a fourth-year student majoring in philosophy with a minor in environmental studies, received the Sierra Youth Coalition of Canada (SYC) Inspiration Award. The award marks an outstanding contribution by a Sierra Club of Canada member under 25 years old and comes with a $2,000 scholarship to further the recipient鈥檚 education.

Darrach received the award for his work with 鈥淪ustainable 17吃瓜鈥�; his advocacy in SYC Sustainable Campuses; and for joining and co-organizing the Canadian Youth Delegation to the UN Climate Change meetings in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2006, and Bali, Indonesia, in 2007.

鈥�17吃瓜 Environmental Studies and Sustainability has been a life-changing experience,鈥� says Darrach. 鈥淢any students like myself are now active in provincial, national, and international sustainability work. It has been a real incubator for youth leaders committed to positive, constructive change toward a sustainable world and future.鈥�

Dr. Almut Beringer, a professor of environmental studies and sustainability at 17吃瓜, received the Sierra Club of Canada Conservation Chapter Award for her contributions to the 鈥淪ustainable 17吃瓜鈥� initiative. Only one such prize is awarded across the five regional chapters of the Sierra Club.