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The Gazette | Sept. 7, 2014

by: Lesley Chesterman

Gone are the days when thousands of 91直播 students had to subsist on doughnuts and sad steam trays; over the last five years, the university has transformed its food services, and tapped into the wealth of produce grown at its Macdonald Campus.

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Classified as: Sustainability, food, mcgill food service
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Published on: 14 Sep 2014

The Atlantic: CityLab.com | Aug 20, 2014

Written by: Eric Jaffe

For most people, a satisfying commute is not necessarily a happy one鈥攁 not-so-unhappy one will do. Yes, it's true that the ideal commute; many of us can use the time to decompress or get some thinking done. But it's also true that beyond a certain point鈥攔oughly 15 minutes one-way, on average鈥攚e just want our lives and sanity back.

Classified as: transportation, Sustainability, mcgill research
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Published on: 12 Sep 2014

91直播 Reporter | Aug 21, 2014

By:听Neale McDevitt

The gigantic brownie will be the main attraction at the annual 91直播 脿 la carte event to be held in the tent on the downtown lower campus on Tuesday, Aug. 26, during which thousands of students, faculty, staff and hungry Montrealers will be invited to sample the delicious dessert.听

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Classified as: Sustainability, food, De Volpi, fair trade, frosh
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Published on: 1 Sep 2014

91直播 Reporter | Aug 11, 2014

By: Chris Chipello

Montreal will soon become one of five global hubs for Future Earth, a 10-year international research program stemming from the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro.

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Classified as: Sustainability, future earth
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Published on: 19 Aug 2014

CBC News - August 11, 2014

91直播's Farm to School Project (SP0100) Summer Camp Click on the link above to watch the full story!

Classified as: farming, SPF0100: Farm to School
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Published on: 19 Aug 2014

International Business Times | July 22, 2014

By:听Jayalakshmi K

Global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 indicate a slowdown in global warming, but this was due to 听fluctuation and not due to any decrease in greenhouse gas emissions - this has been proved by statistical analysis of the temperatures, conducted by 91直播 physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.

Classified as: Sustainability, climate change, Shaun Lovejoy
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Published on: 25 Jul 2014

Living in a city puts everything at your fingertips: From fashion and movies to social movements and political experiments, residents of urban areas experience most everything before it trickles through the suburbs and into rural communities.

Published on July 29, 2014 |

by: Willy Blackmore

Classified as: Sustainability, food, urban agriculture, farming
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Published on: 25 Jul 2014

In a number of cities around the world, residents have transformed previously derelict sites, ignored corners and over-grown verges into green and productive vegetable plots

Published on July 30, 2014 |

For example, in York, UK, an reveals that there is garlic mustard and horseradish growing in abundance alongside the river, and plums will be available on a tree in a street in Osbaldwick by August.

Classified as: Sustainability, food, urban agriculture, farming
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Published on: 25 Jul 2014

91直播 Student Jakub Dzamba desigs cricket incubator to feed growing interest in insect farming

Published on July 23, 2014 |

by: Mathais Marchal

Classified as: Sustainability, food, farming, Insects
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Published on: 25 Jul 2014

To encourage more active commuting among 91直播 staff

Published on July 14, 2014 |

by: Meena Mohan

Flexibility and configurability are two of our guiding principles when it comes to developing great, user friendly software.

Classified as: Sustainability, SPF: Energy
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Published on: 16 Jul 2014

To encourage more active commuting among 91直播 staff

Published on June 15, 2014 |

by: 91直播 Reporter

Classified as: transportation, Sustainability, Green Spaces, Bicycling
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Published on: 20 Jun 2014

The Panama Field Studies Semester offers 91直播 undergraduates a unique opportunity to experience the complexity of environmental issues up-close

Published on June 9, 2014 |

by: Hannah Hoag (MSc '99)

Classified as: Current & New Students, catherine potvin, Panama Field Studies, Sustianability
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Published on: 20 Jun 2014

The 91直播 board of governors has included 鈥済rave environmental degradation鈥 as allowable criteria for divestment.

Published on June 10, 2014 |

by: Karen Seidman

Many students at 91直播 are celebrating a fundamental shift in how the university will decide whether to stop investing in fossil fuel companies.

Classified as: Sustainability, board of governors, environmental degradation, investing
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Published on: 11 Jun 2014

Opinion: Research Shows the Global Warming isn't natural

Published on June 9, 2014 |

by: Shaun Lovejoy

Last year, the Quebec Skeptics Society laid down a challenge: 鈥淚f anthropogenic global warming is as strong as scientists claim, then why do they need supercomputers to demonstrate it?鈥

My immediate response was: 鈥淭hey don鈥檛.鈥

Classified as: global warming, climate change, climate, Shaun Lovejoy
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Published on: 11 Jun 2014

Yuan and Tegho are in their last year of electrical engineering at 91直播 and are keen about sustainability and energy conservation. Together they designed an 鈥渆nergy management and power disaggregation鈥 system that helps homeowners and businesses better monitor, control and manage the energy use of individual appliances.

Classified as: Sustainability, student initaitives, Scotiabank Ecoliving Awards
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Published on: 9 Jun 2014

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