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Living in a city puts everything at your fingertips: From fashion and movies to social movements and political experiments, residents of urban areas experience most everything before it trickles through the suburbs and into rural communities.

Published on July 29, 2014 |

by: Willy Blackmore

Classified as: Sustainability, food, urban agriculture, farming
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Published on: 25 Jul 2014

To encourage more active commuting among ۲ݮƵ staff

Published on July 14, 2014 |

by: Meena Mohan

Flexibility and configurability are two of our guiding principles when it comes to developing great, user friendly software.

Classified as: Sustainability, SPF: Energy
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Published on: 16 Jul 2014

To encourage more active commuting among ۲ݮƵ staff

Published on June 15, 2014 |

by: ۲ݮƵ Reporter

Classified as: transportation, Sustainability, Green Spaces, Bicycling
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Published on: 20 Jun 2014

The Panama Field Studies Semester offers ۲ݮƵ undergraduates a unique opportunity to experience the complexity of environmental issues up-close

Published on June 9, 2014 |

by: Hannah Hoag (MSc '99)

Classified as: Current & New Students, catherine potvin, Panama Field Studies, Sustianability
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Published on: 20 Jun 2014

The ۲ݮƵ University board of governors has included “grave environmental degradation” as allowable criteria for divestment.

Published on June 10, 2014 |

by: Karen Seidman

Many students at ۲ݮƵ University are celebrating a fundamental shift in how the university will decide whether to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.

Classified as: Sustainability, board of governors, environmental degradation, investing
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Published on: 11 Jun 2014

Opinion: Research Shows the Global Warming isn't natural

Published on June 9, 2014 |

by: Shaun Lovejoy

Last year, the Quebec Skeptics Society laid down a challenge: “If anthropogenic global warming is as strong as scientists claim, then why do they need supercomputers to demonstrate it?”

My immediate response was: “They don’t.”

Classified as: global warming, climate change, climate, Shaun Lovejoy
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Published on: 11 Jun 2014

Yuan and Tegho are in their last year of electrical engineering at ۲ݮƵ University and are keen about sustainability and energy conservation. Together they designed an “energy management and power disaggregation” system that helps homeowners and businesses better monitor, control and manage the energy use of individual appliances.

Classified as: Sustainability, student initaitives, Scotiabank Ecoliving Awards
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Published on: 9 Jun 2014

Published on June 4, 2014 |

Ideas with Paul Kennedy

Following on the heels of Green Growth: Can Profits Save the Planet?, IDEAS presents the , a biennial conclave with some of the world's most respected ecologists debating one of the crucial questions of our time -- is it possible for economists to understand and appreciate the 'real' value of the environment?

Classified as: Sustainability, Ideas, Green Growth, Muskoka Summit
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Published on: 9 Jun 2014

Montreal — Green spaces can help obliterate blue spaces in our minds: It’s a no-brainer.

Published on May 30, 2014 |

by: Bill Brownstein

Classified as: Sustainability, climate, Green Spaces, Indoor Plants
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Published on: 6 Jun 2014

The 2nd annual ۲ݮƵ University Awards for Equity and Community Building were handed out on April 24.

Published on May 8, 2014 |

by: ۲ݮƵ Reporter Staff

Classified as: Sustainability, Community Building, equity and diversity, Community Engagement Day
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Published on: 14 May 2014

Published on May 8, 2014 |

by: ۲ݮƵ Reporter Staff

A drab hallway, an empty lawn, an awkward nook – every university has them. But what if these were re-imagined as a colourful study space with bench seating, a pop-up outdoor classroom, and a busking area for student musicians?

Classified as: Sustainability, James Walk, ۲ݮƵ Spaces Project
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Published on: 8 May 2014

۲ݮƵ group says the Arctic needs better adaptation policies

Published on April 28, 2014 |
by David Murphy

Inuit are vulnerable to climate change, and it’s time for new policy to adapt, a group of researchers says in a new report

That’s the message from the Climate Change Adaptation Research Group, led by James Ford of ۲ݮƵ University, who released a paper April 24 about the need for better adaption strategies, especially in health, for Inuit.

Classified as: Sustainability, climate change, James Ford
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Published on: 1 May 2014

Students learn about nature and politics in unique project to place a bee colony atop town hall

Published on April 22, 2014 |
Written by: Catherine Solyom

For the bees, too, it’s been a long, hard winter.

Classified as: Sustainability, Macdonald Campus, ۲ݮƵ Apicultural Assocation, SP0101
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Published on: 22 Apr 2014

The Alberta-based Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC) announced on April 15, that two ۲ݮƵ researchers are among the 24 winners of $500,000 grants to transform carbon dioxide into useful products.

Published on April 16, 2014 | ۲ݮƵ Publications
Written by: Meaghan Thurston

Classified as: Sustainability, Research Grants, carbon dioxide, Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation (CCEMC)
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Published on: 18 Apr 2014

Statistical analysis rules out natural-warming hypothesis with more than 99% certainty

Published on April 11, 2014 | ۲ݮƵ Research

An analysis of temperature data since 1500 all but rules out the possibility that global warming in the industrial era is just a natural fluctuation in the earth’s climate, according to a new study by ۲ݮƵ University physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.

Classified as: global warming, Sustainability, climate dynamics
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Published on: 15 Apr 2014

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