ICON & Feeding 9 Billion: a "hotbed" of support for student changemakers

Lyon's reflections on creating a bio-char project in Feeding 9 Billion & ICON to address campus waste
Video by Angus McLellan
Video Transcript
Summary: Lyon's reflections on creating a bio-char project in Feeding 9 Billion & ICON to address campus waste
00:01 - 00:03
[Music plays; ICON logo appears on a yellow background. The logo and background split to show Lyon standing in the Science Complex Atrium. The screen is overplayed with a yellow triangle, black square and text]
Text: Lyon
Integrative Biology Student
University of Guelph
I'm Lyon, I'm in integrative biology at the University of Guelph
00:04 - 00:54
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and last year I took the ICON course. Through the Feeding 9 Billion Challenge, and then also through the ICON course later, I and 2 other people had the chance to found the Black Box Initiative. It's a organic waste, like an alternative organic waste disposal solution for campus because we're noticing an immense amount of organic waste was happening on campus that could probably be cut in half or eliminated to a certain degree. The most astounding thing that I can think of that came from the ICON course was the fact that there was all these people, administrators and people high up that you know had faith in us and were really treating us like an adult, and were like what do you need? Do you need money, do you need time do you need like a place to do your research? The ICON course and the Feeding 9 Billion Challenge was just, it was just a hotbed for people to give us time and respect and take us seriously for things that we really felt were serious.
00:55-00:56
[Music plays; White background appears with black text and University of Guelph, Feeding 9 Billion and ICON logos]