“In the weather deck of cards, there is a joker around every bend. Our weather is dangerous and volatile. We have to come to this less romantic conclusion that we are going to have a different climate and now is the time to prepare for this,” explains Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips.Phillips will host […]
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Universities aren’t sustainable. University students are.
Ask university students about sustainability, and it’s clear they are the ones doing the teaching. “It isn’t just about saving one tree. It’s about our community,” says Kaley Kennedy, External Vice President of the King’s Students’ Union (KSU). In 1987 the UN called sustainability “the ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising […]
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Bad Moody
Its an interesting sign of the times when the chair of a mining company notorious for illegally evicting subsistence farmers to increase international coal exports is invited to lecture on sustainability. Dalhousie University invited Sir Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of AngloAmerican, the worlds second-largest mining company, to address a packed house about Sustainability Challenges for Extractive […]
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Halifax Fails in Garbage Source Separation
This summer, the city finally brought its solid waste strategy to the streets of Halifax. Although residents have been using green carts to separate their organics from regular waste since 1998, those of us out and about downtown streets have had only one choice for discarding our apple cores and empty coffee cups. That is, […]
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Scum sail away
It’s a bright April morning on McNabs Island—the sky overhead is a brilliant blue, the Halifax skyline shining in the distance. Still wearing the matching day-glo orange flotation coats they donned for the high-speed boat trip, the group of 14 people clustering at the edge of the water look almost like school kids out on […]
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Seeing green
The planet is heating up. Oil is running out. Fish stocks are in decline. And human population is still on the rise. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that—ready or not—something has to change. In fact, says Karl-Henrik Robèrt, every individual can understand “we’re running out of resources at a global level.” But […]
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Get your green on
Walk wherever you go Halifax is the best city in Canada for walking. Not the kind of walking people do with the dog or with swinging arms and a heart monitor or with a picnic basket and a lover. Actually, there’s a shortage of good leisure trails in HRM. But as far as walking to […]