Impact: The Co-operators Youth Conference for Sustainability Leadership
September 24 – 27, 2009, 180 college and university students will gather at the University of Guelph to explore real sustainability solutions with national business and…
Read article(2008) Redefining Boundaries – Urban Agriculture: Tiffany Tong
Redefining boundaries: Urban Agriculture: Tiffany Tong from terrytalks on Vimeo. Name: Tiffany Tong Talk Title: “Redefining boundaries: urban agriculture.” Notes: Faculty of Land and Food Systems,…
Read articleDon’t forget to have your spouses spayed or neutered.
Dear Citizen, Congratulations on your first newborn! We hope the immeasurable happiness that accompanies such a joyous occasion reaches you well. Please be alerted that, within…
Read articleRedux: An Oceanographer’s Humble Foray Into Political Science – aka – Sociopolitical Controls On Carbon Emissions
While Alan was speaking of transitioning economies after the cold war with respect to CO2 emissions (see Romania, USSR/Russia, Poland, etc.), I was reminded of a…
Read articleThis came up in class: contribution of transportation to GHG emissions
During tonight’s class, someone asked about the relative contribution of transportation to a product’s total GHG emission, and how the GHG emissions of vegetables/grains compare with…
Read articleGarbage, garbage, everywhere
I found a few pages of a discarded Vancouver Sun the other day on the bus, and was kind of disturbed by an article about “islands…
Read articleTis’ the Season for Dumpster Diving
Between weekly snow storms, daily melting, and nightly freezing, garbage trucks have yet to tred down many of the neglected and treacherous side streets and back…
Read articleBakeforachange 2008 is Officially Closed!
Attention green baking enthusiasts – entry to BFAC2008 is officially closed! This year we received a half dozen sustainable and scrumptious entries (see them at the…
Read articleBake For A Change 2008: T minus 2 days.
Amidst whipping cream and pumpkin pies, sugar induced comas, and being stranded on boxing day, you may have forgotten about BFAC2008. If this rings a bell,…
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Payback
By Joanne Fox,
I just finished Margaret Atwood’s latest book, Payback – Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. She was recently here at UBC to deliver part two…
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