Up Drop (Aurora Robson, 2010) is a 9-foot-tall suspended sculpturemade from plastic debris (PET) intercepted from the waste stream.
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Requiem for a Glacier
What do you get when you put one innovative BC artist, a passionate curator, fifty musicians, and fifty porters, sound techs and camera operators on a melting glacier slated for controversial development as a four-season ski resort?
Liz Fraser
Liz Fraser is a midwife with a background in feminist bioethics and philosophy of medicine. Besides catching babies, she enjoys collecting shells, starting (but not finishing) craft projects, and arguing with her cat.
Think You Know Nature?
With the May long weekend signalling the arrival of summer, I wasted no time leaving behind Toronto for the quiet solitude of Algonquin Provincial Park. Hiking amongst 400-year-old trees, sighting rare birds, stopping on the highway to spot moose and enjoying the call of loons on the lake helps you […]
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 […]
Wild Canada Takes Nature Documentaries to a Whole New Level
On Thursday, March 13, Wild Canada – the first large-scale documentary to comprehensively showcase Canada’s varied and unique natural history, including the role of humans – premieres on the CBC.
Why Hire a Sustainability Graduate?
As a third-year Environment and Business student at the University of Waterloo, I am often asked what I plan to pursue as a career after graduation.
Fishing for Ways to Keep Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes
Background reading: Asian Carp Alive and Breeding in Lake Erie Tributary A recent study led by the University of Notre Dame and the US Forest Service confirmed that hydrologically separating the Great Lakes from the Mississippi River watershed would be 95 to 100 per cent effective at containing Asian carp.
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