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Indoor Gardening for the Future
Register hereDate:
December 9, 2025
Time:
12:00 pm EST
Audience:
Grade 6-12 Students
Join students from across Canada for an engaging event all about indoor gardening, plant science, and successful student-led projects. Three presentations will spark curiosity and illustrate how to grow food indoors. Stay until the end for a chance to win a Plantaform Indoor Garden for your school!
Meet the presenters and explore the presentations below.
Alberto Aguilar
From Space to the Classroom
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What if the same science used by NASA to grow plants in space could help us grow food right here on Earth? Join Alberto Aguilar, founder of Plantaform, as he shares his journey of creating an indoor garden that grows with nothing but mist. With a dream of helping everyone grow their own food, anywhere, anytime, Alberto turned an idea meant for space into something magical for classrooms and homes.
Alberto Aguilar is the co-founder and CEO of Plantaform, pioneers of Fogponics—the most water-efficient technology in agriculture. Plantaform launched the world’s first smart indoor garden using this breakthrough technology, earning the CES 2025 Best of Innovation Award, a deal on Dragons’ Den, and retail placement at Costco. Today, Alberto is expanding the company into the Middle East and building out PLANTAFARM, its commercial Fogponics greenhouse venture designed to transform food production in the Arabian desert.
Dr. Lauren Erland
Are Plants Intelligent?
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Plants are all around us, growing, adapting and changing in response to their neighbours and environment. Their survival depends on having high sensitive means to understand their environment, to avoid being eaten or outcompeted, to reproduce and to generally get on with being green. Despite this, we often think about plants as stationary, mindless forms of life. This presentation will explore whether we should be thinking about how smart plants might really be.
Dr. Lauren Erland is an Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair in Berry Horticulture and Explorer’s Club Fellow International based at the University of the Fraser Valley in Chilliwack, BC, Canada. In the summers, she travels as an Expedition Botanist. She runs the BERRi (Berry Environmental Resilience Research & Innovation) Lab & Research Centre, which has the goal of enhancing sustainability and climate resilience of our berry-based ecosystems and horticulture systems.
UTS EcoTeam
Hydroponic Gardening: Bringing the outside in
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Join students and teachers from University of Toronto Schools Sustainability and Environmental Action Committee (USEAC), an inspiring EcoTeam from grades 7 to 12, as they share their journey of building and maintaining an incredible hydroponic garden within their school. Learn how this innovative project has not only produced fresh, healthy food but also brought a touch of greenery into their daily environment.
Guardians of Nature: Indigenous Knowledge and Science in Action
Watch hereDate:
April 24th, 2025
Time:
12:00pm ET
Audience:
Grade 6-12 Students
Celebrate Earth Week with us!
In collaboration with Exploring by The Seat of Your Pants and Environment and Climate Change Canada, students will dive into how Indigenous leadership and scientific expertise are working together to protect Canada’s natural treasures.
Where Have All the Birds Gone and What Can We Do to Help?
Watch hereDate:
February 13th, 2025
Time:
12:00pm ET
Audience:
Grade 6-12 Students
Join us for this special program in partnership with Exploring by The Seat of Your Pants and Environment and Climate Change Canada as we explore some of the big threats facing our feathered friends and what we’re doing to understand more and help them! We’ll be partnering with scientists Dr. Barbara Frei and Dr. Elizabeth Gow to learn about city lights, cats, migrations and more!
Space Brain Hack
Watch hereDate:
December 17th, 2024
Time:
12:00pm ET
Audience:
Grade 6-12 Students
The Space Brain Hack invites young minds to tackle open-ended challenges related to Gateway and space exploration. Through problem-solving and creative thinking, students will explore innovations for future space missions and discover the impact they could make by pursuing STEM studies and careers.
Earth Week Event 2024
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April 25th, 2024
Time:
12:00pm ET
Audience:
Grade 6-12 Students
Hear from some of Canada’s top climate scientists! This exciting event features presentations by three scientists working for Environment and Climate Change Canada.
Training webinars
Training webinars give all members of the school community an opportunity to build capacity and learn about the EcoSchools Canada program. They are free to attend.
Stay tuned for new EcoSchools program webinars throughout the school year.
Intro to EcoSchools Canada 2024-25
Recorded on October 15, 2024
Learn how to track and review your school’s environmental impact
Recorded on March 5, 2024
Coaching Session: Next Steps in your EcoSchools Journey
Recorded on February 14, 2024
EcoSchools Coaching Sessions: Aiming for Platinum
Recorded on February 20, 2024
Outdoor Learning in Nearby Nature
Recorded on February 7, 2023
Litter Less Campaign Webinar
Recorded on December 21, 2022
Greenbelt Biodiversity: Tracking and enhancing biodiversity on your school grounds
Recorded on March 8, 2022
Let’s Talk Paper: Projects and best practices for school and home
Recorded on March 25, 2021
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EcoSummit 2023
The EcoSchools EcoSummit united students, educators, and partners, creating a space to amplify diverse perspectives on pressing environmental challenges and innovative solutions. Dive into our webinars, each focusing one of four key themes: Low-carbon commuting, Outdoor learning, Waste reduction, and Climate action.