Project Unbreakable
Project Unbreakable was created in October of 2011 by Grace Brown. Grace works with survivors of sexual assault, photographing them holding a poster with a quote…
Read articleMeet Rachel Gutman, the Terry project’s newest student coordinator
My name is Rachel Gutman, I’m a fifth year (yay victory lap!) Global Resource Systems student. I grew up in Toronto, but left when I was…
Read articleOrganic Food-a victim of its own success.
Originally a backlash against conventional agriculture, the organic movement once represented an alternative to industrial farming practices. Organics provided consumers with reassurance that the foods they…
Read articleOh, Mister Plumber, do you know Where naughty, careless, tradesman go?
Oh, Mister Plumber, do you know Where naughty, careless, tradesman go? You come to set the water right– To make the taps all safe and tight.…
Read articleBoundaries in Comedy?
The law does a decently good job of clearly outlining and defining behavior that is legal and what is not….but what about words and thoughts? What…
Read articleA Proposal to Classify Happiness as a Psychiatric Disorder
(In other recent science-y news that does not pertain to the Higgs-Boson particle…) Richard P. Bentall, a clinical psychologist, argues the following: It is proposed that…
Read articleWorn out? Read WORN.
If you’re like me you have sworn off reading magazines like Seventeen or Teen Vogue. As a purveyor of social consciousness, they were plucked from your repertoire of…
Read articleHow sustainable is local food?
This week, the Freakonomics podcast challenged the notion that localization is a remedy to the social and environmental problems associated with the global food system. The…
Read articleCheck out John Grande at UBC
Via the UBC Sustainability Initiative, Join John Grande at UBC Art critic, writer, lecturer and interviewer July 18, 2012 at 12:30pm in the CIRS Policy labs…
Read articleBut what will people think of me?
“Status anxiety,” as Alain de Botton calls it, is one of the defining characteristics of our society. By perceiving of ourselves as a land of equal…
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