Liat Margolis is an assistant professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, and director of the Green Roof Innovation Testing (GRIT) Laboratory at the University of Toronto.
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Meet the Authors Behind Canada’s Map to Sustainability
Sustainable Canada Dialogues/Dialogues pour un Canada vert is an incredible collaboration of academics from across Canada.
Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels
It’s Global Divestment Day on February 13th, 2015, a day of worldwide climate action and recognition of the growth and reach of the fossil fuel divestment movement, created by the Go Fossil Free campaign.
Waste Mismanagement Leads to Plastic-Filled Oceans
Roughly 9.1 million tonnes of plastic waste will head from land to sea this year alone in 192 coastal countries worldwide.
Fixing Food Waste
It won’t come as a surprise to most that we waste a significant amount of food as a society. We’ve all experienced that moment at the restaurant when we realize we won’t be able to finish what’s on our plate or that moment we find the strawberries in our fridge […]
The Forest’s Next Move
THE PARTNERSHIP GROUP for Science and Engineering, composed of members of more than 25 organizations, has been conducting breakfast lectures for parliamentarians since 1998. They call it the Bacon and Eggheads series and they want it to showcase topical Canadian research in a non-partisan forum that allows scientists to present […]
Huffing & Puffing
YOU’VE HEARD the ads. Beyond the ugly open pit mines lies a different sort of oil sands, intones a friendly Cenovus voice. The difference, goes the ad, consists of some 100 gleaming steam plants in Alberta’s boreal forest where industry can safely recover oil from 450 metres beneath the ground […]
Time to Share
WHILE GUIDING A GROUP of Danish tourists in the Manu Park region of the Peruvian Amazon in June 2012, William Huamani noticed something odd from their long boat on the Alto Madre de Dios river. “About 900 meters away I saw a naked man waving his hands, like [he was] […]
Harpooned by Harper
Justice Anne Mactavish ruled in February that the federal ministers of both the environment and fisheries have broken the law under the Species at Risk Act (SARA).
Good on Paper
Kavita Shukla was 14 years old and visiting Bhopal, India, when her grandmother brewed her a spice tea to ward off sickness. Seventeen years later, the spices from that tea are now the key ingredients in a product that Shuklar hopes will help get food to millions in the developing […]
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