Posts from the ‘sustainability’ category

Mix it up in 2012

It’s the first week of the year, first week of the term… A time of reflection and projection. A time to mix things up and try…

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How We Sustain: UBC’s John Robinson

I dug up this image from Word and I set out to look at it from a few different perspectives. I saw… an underused piece of…

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Show us your Sustainable Gingerbread Houses! #sustainablegingerbreadhouse

A few years back, our blogger Dave Semeniuk asked folks to think a little bit differently when it came to the time honoured tradition of making…

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The Terry Global Speakers Series Presents: Bill McKibben

———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Terry Global Speakers Series Presents Bill McKibben: Notes on the Climate Fight In partnership with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, The Alma Mater…

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Even preschoolers know how to save the Earth

Image courtesy Georgia, of http://www.chrisroberson.net With World Water Day and Earth Hour both happening this week, I’ve been reflecting on the personal actions I’ve made towards cutting down…

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Twice in Venice

The idea of this story came to me when I was traveling in one of the most beautiful places in the world knowing that one day…

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ISES 2011: The Evolving Energy Ecosystem

Our friends at the UBC Sustainability Initiative recently let us know about ISES 2011, an event that is bound to interest many of our readers. The…

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Rebecca Gu – Conservation Challenges in Development.

Name: Rebecca Gu Talk Title: “Conservation Challenges in Development.” Notes: Sauder School of Business; Topic: Environmentalism was a movement that was largely born out of the…

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St. Matthew’s Island

Working in a microbiology lab, I’ve seen my fair share of bacterial growth curves. They all follow the same pattern: a lag phase or period of…

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Sustainable Super Heros?!

A fun article by my friend, Chris Keam, published over at Tyee. But while the heroes of Hollywood’s cinematic comic strips may save the world on…

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