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A UVic student group working to re-conceptualize and re-claim sustainability on-campus.

10/22/2026

Have you seen a dead bird on campus? 🪶

According to a study last year, an average of 1,095 birds die from window collisions on UVic campus between September and February. 🐦‍⬛

We need your help to see where these collisions and deaths are occurring! A student has kindly created a bird safe campus project on INaturalist so we can see what species and where bird deaths are happening on campus.

📸 Next time you see a dead bird at UVic. We invite you to take a picture and upload it to INaturalist. If the bird is tagged as dead and on campus, it will automatically be added to the project. The link to the project is also on our link tree 🔗!

10/20/2026

Our board meeting is TODAY! (And every Tuesday!)

📍SUB basement, room B025 and zoom!
📅TODAY, Tuesday Oct 20
🕰️ 4:30 - 5:30 pm
🥨 snacks and drinks provided! Open to all!!
🌊 This event takes place on the unceced territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking Peoples, whose descendants who are known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. The W̱SÁNEĆ Nations have also had relationships with these lands since time immemorial.

10/13/2026

Board meeting tonight!! 🤠

📍SUB basement, room B025 and zoom!
📅TODAY, Tuesday Oct 13 (and every Tuesday!)
🥨 snacks and drinks provided! Open to all!!
🌊 This event takes place on the unceced territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking Peoples, whose descendants who are known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. The W̱SÁNEĆ Nations have also had relationships with these lands since time immemorial.

10/06/2026

Today’s board meeting will be cut short so we have the opportunity to go to the all candidates meeting tonight at 5 pm! 🗳️

Just like every Tuesday, we are meeting at 4:30 pm in room B025! We will have snacks available, and it’s open to all. Hope to see you there! 🌱

09/29/2026

We apologize for the last minute post, but we have our board meeting today! (UVSP board meetings are every Tuesday!)

📆 Tuesday, Sep 29th (today!)
📍 SUB basement, room B025 + ZOOM
🕰️ 4:30 - 5:30 pm
🥨 snacks available! Everyone is welcome!
🌱 This event takes place on the unceced territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən-speaking Peoples, whose descendants who are known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. The W̱SÁNEĆ Nations have also had relationships with these lands since time immemorial.

Today there are several events to recognize orange shirt day on campus, and we strongly encourage participating! Tomorrow is the National day for Truth and Reconciliation, to recognize and honour the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. There are plenty of opportunities to honour, listen, and celebrate Indigenous cultures and resilience.
We will be posting a statement and resources shortly. 🧡

09/22/2026

🦚 Missed our last bird walk? No worries; because we have another one coming up!

🐦‍⬛Join the UVSP and Dr. Krista De Groot on an on campus bird tour, where we will learn about local birds and also how we can facilitate bird safe infrastructure! No registration necessary, just show up at 10 am :)

📆 Monday, September 28
📍Entrance of engineering office wing
🕰️10 am - 12 pm
🐾We will be going around campus to different buildings, and choosing accessible paths.

🦉 Dr. De Groot has made invaluable scientific and advocacy contributions to bird safety in infrastructures, and has been a key part of our bird safe campus campaign as well as the important paper and research that found that an average of 1,095 birds die from window collisions every fall at the University of Victoria. We are so thankful for her joining us and leading the tour!

📍This event will take place at UVic, on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən (Songhees and Esquimalt) Peoples on whose territory the university stands, and the Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples whose historical relationships with these lands continue to this day.

09/21/2026

Meet the UVSP Staff – Al Tantalidou is the newest Communications Officer! 🖋️🕊️

Al (they/them) is a fourth year undergraduate student of English and Environmental Studies. They grew up on Southern Coast Salish (Snoqualmie Tribe) territories of ‘Seattle’, and Anishinaabe territories of ‘Chicago’ and are of Greek + Pontic Greek descent.

Since immigrating to the unceded lands of the Lǝkǝŋǝn & WSÁNEĆ peoples Al has been involved in many social justice organizations – on campus they help edit the Campus Community Garden’s zine Sundew, are Coordinator for ESSA’s zine Essence, and have written for newspaper the Martlet.

The UVSP’s mission to reconceptualize sustainability resonates with Al’s principles as they are especially passionate about food security, literary ecocriticism, and environmental journalism. Their personal motto is essentially “feed people; first food then the news.”

When not playing table-top games or roller-skating Al is always up for a chat, though conversation may be briefly interrupted for impromptu birdwatching 🐦‍⬛

09/18/2026

Join us next Tuesday for our weekly board meeting!

📆 Tuesday, Sep 22
📍SUB basement, room B025 + Zoom (link in meeting minutes, in our linktree!)
🕰️ 4:30 - 5:30 pm
🥨 open to all, snacks provided!!

Next meeting we’ll be chatting about events, so if you have had any event ideas around sustainability, climate action, and more, come on by! 💫

09/17/2026

This fall our lending library will have new regular hours – Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 1-4pm Wednesday 11:30-4pm, and Friday 11:30-3pm. Spread the word, sign up, or drop by just to peruse!

Visit our office in the Student Union Building Room B020 any of these hours to place a $20 deposit and sign up to gain access to a wide array of books, identification guides, and tools.

We have something for everyone, including but not limited to a tool box, sewing machine, and a camping tent.

We at the UVSP believe recreation, hobbies, and community projects should be both sustainable and affordable. A full list of our library items, along with the steps to sign up as a borrower, are available on our website (uvsp.ca) linked in our bio.

09/11/2026

✉️ After next Tuesday’s letter writing event, we are having our first board meeting of the Semester!! 🌻

🗓️Tuesday, Sep 15
🕰️4:30 pm to 5:30 pm
📍UVic Campus Community Garden/2100 McKenzie Ave (UVic Campus Community Garden )
🥨 Free snacks available!

🦋 Our board meeting is open to all! The first meeting of the semester is great time to meet the board, and to be apart of what we want to do this year! There is also a lot of updates on campaigns, events and more. We hope to see you there!

Unfortunately we will not have hybrid available due to lack of internet access in the garden.

Address

3800 Finnerty Road, UVic Student Union Building, Room B020
Victoria, BC
V8P5C2

Telephone

+12504724386

Website

http://uvsp.ca/

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