This is part four of our Skills for the New Economy series. Read part one: “Creating an Artisanal Life as an Eco-Polymath.”
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Pushing Fashion Sustainability Forward
THE FASHION INDUSTRY has a serious environmental footprint. Cotton, one of the most popular fabrics in the world, uses a significant amount of pesticides, while many textile preservatives and disposal methods cause pollution. Animals are exploited in order to help generate a profit, and many workers are placed in extremely harsh […]
Academic Evolution: Innovation Knows No Boundaries
This is part three of our Skills for the New Economy series.
Meet 6 Environmental Grads
Evan Hall BScH, Environmental Science, Queen’s UniversityPostgrad certificate in Environmental Visual Communication, Fleming College Current Job: Marketing and communications officer, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF)
Mythmaking: The Movement Needs Muses
Read part one of Natasha Milijasevic’s series about how an environmental education creates “eco-polymaths” equipped with the skills needed for today’s economy, Creating an Artisanal Life as an Eco-Polymath.
The Genius of the Generalist
Predicting the best career options for the next four years, or the next 20, seems next to impossible these days. Today’s postsecondary students are overwhelmed with choice, anxiety and the worst job prospects in three generations. The current youth unemployment rate for Canadians ages 15 to 24 was 13.2 per […]
Skills for the New Economy: Creating an Artisanal Life as an Eco-Polymath
Structural changes in the labour market since the economic downturn of 2008 have resulted in a work reality that society is grappling to define.
Sustainable Architecture is Localized Architecture
Within today’s instantaneously disposable culture, buildings are often thoughtlessly constructed using mass-produced curtain wall and structural systems while capitalizing on consumers’ fleeting needs for ephemerality and ambiguity of space and place. Given the demands of the marketplace, how and why would anyone ever design an architectural program based on localized […]
New Ontario Organization is Advancing the Role of Women in Renewable Energy
At the 2013 Canadian Wind Energy Association’s (CanWEA) conference a new group launched to encourage greater inclusivity in the energy field, Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE). Founded and co-chaired by Rebecca Black and Joanna Szarek Osawe, this non-profit organization is dedicated to “furthering education and awareness surrounding renewable energy development and […]
Water and Agriculture in Canada: Towards Sustainable Management of Water Resources
Whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting, or so the old saying goes. There’s no way of conveying the importance of water to agriculture more concisely. Water management is highly divisive and fraught with winners and losers. Given the contentiousness of managing this critical resource, the Hon. Gerry Ritz, federal […]
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