Posts from the ‘sustainability’ category

Kids and Combustion

When I was in high school, I remember friends who were jealous that my parents knew math and science – since obviously that meant I could…

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INDEX: Design to Improve Life

While in Copenhagen, Denmark a little more than two weeks ago, I stumbled upon the award exposition for the INDEX: Design to Improve Life biannual competition.…

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Climate change with your coffee: Sept. 12th

If you’re interested in hearing about some fascinating climate change research that’s being done at UBC, and you’re keen to trek downtown, have a bit of…

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Celebrity Ecological Footprints – how many Earths would we need if we all lived like Tom Cruise?

Q: Assuming that (a) Tom Cruise’s level of consumption is in parallel with his annual salary, and that (b) everyone on earth has the opportunity to…

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I went fishing with my family when I was five

when i was five i went fishing with my family my dad caught a turtle my mom caught a snapper my brother caught a crab i…

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[URBANIZATION]

high rises sky scrapers is it human ambition? reaching up or is it too crowded here? glass buildings how fragile are we? always under (orange) construction…

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THE ORGANIC ADVENTURES OF FARMER TERRY

This modified telling of “Old MacDonald” is dedicated to all the growers and their supporters who choose to remain clean by staying green!

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ALL CHANGE IS NOT EVOLUTIONARY

What is evolution? Who was Darwin? What do the words Darwinism, natural selection, or survival of the fittest really mean? These words and phrases have been…

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OCEANIA

Maggie has always envied her sister Tricia’s place of birth. Oceania—how it rolls off the tongue like a wave, how it sounds bigger than anything. She…

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The Book of Thwile: A Children’s Book

“Praying to those deities in the sky, Can never account for the chickens that die “Stuffed in small cages with no room to run They squeeze…

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