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Manitoba Student Transportation Network

Resource Conservation Manitoba (RCM) promotes ecological sustainability through environmental education and the development of alternatives to unsustainable current practices. Program areas include sustainable transportation, climate change, waste reduction, and resource conservation.

What are they doing?

The Manitoba Student Transportation Network (MSTN) is a trip reduction program aimed at encouraging students at participating secondary schools to choose environmentally friendly means of commuting to and from school and work. MSTN incorporates new materials and approaches that reflect the particular conditions prevailing in a prairie city like Winnipeg.

The overall goal of the MSTN is to build capacity and motivate practical action on sustainable transportation among Manitoba youth by establishing and co-ordinating a student transportation network. The network is intended to enable communication among participating students, provide a vehicle for circulating trip reduction resources and event announcements, build and maintain interest among youth, provide focus and profile for student actions, and offer transportation-related workshops and training in student leadership skills.

RCM will organize events that give profile to the issues at selected schools in order to draw out interested participants. Students at secondary schools need to be offered tangible events that they can attend. Especially at the outset, RCM needs to take a more active role in setting these up. If students are expected to organize events for themselves, only schools with well-established environmental or social justice committees will participate.

RCM will bring motivated students together three times a year for networking, information sharing and for advice in directing the program. Regular meetings with student participants will enable RCM to identify and develop appropriate support materials (posters, kits, buttons, handouts on how to organize an event, etc.). Students will learn from each other what works best to raise awareness and motivate action at their school. By bringing together a youth steering committee with representation from many schools (some of which may be from outside Winnipeg), RCM can help sustain interest, develop student leadership, and support efforts at schools without active environmental committees.

Where can you find more information?

Manitoba Stuent Transportation Network Website

Date modified:

2010-02-03

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