The EAC continues to be at the vanguard of the environmental movement in Nova Scotia. With its eye on everything from urban gardening to salmon aquaculture, biomass to public transit in rural areas, the organization does its best to save the planet from Nova Scotia. And in September the EAC will participate in the Feed-In […]
Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG)
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Best Activist Organization
The EAC is a hive of constant activity. Here’s just a sample of what they’ve been up to in the past year, provided by Charlene Boyce Young, in charge of development and outreach: “We are running a second year of the Green Mobility Grants program thanks to Conserve Nova Scotia’s support, helping sustainable transportation projects […]
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NSPIRG’s Re-orientation plan
Traditionally, universities welcome new students with a week’s worth of orientation tedium—think tours of the campus, barbeque on the quad with 3,000 other awkward frosh, boring welcoming speeches by academic pooh-bahs. A sleepy student is a prepared student, is the idea. But the Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group is breaking that mold with its […]
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The Coast’s get involved guide
Right here, right at the beginning, this is the part of the guide where I beseech you to reach into your inner self and find that true heart of goodness that sits at your very core, your soul, right next to your spleen, I think, and to connect that true heart of goodness to those […]