environment

Composting for the avid environmentalist

When I was little, my mother told me that if I listened closely enough I could hear a popping sound when an earthworm wriggles into the dirt. I would lie…

UBC researchers recommend cancelling Site C

This article originally appeared in the Ubyssey on May 1, 2017. You can find a link to the original story here. VANCOUVER — After analyzing Site C, UBC researchers have now said…

Becoming a Google scholar

If the organization charged with addressing sustainability on campus conceptualizes “reward” as increased consumption in the form of a bookstore shopping spree, I fear we are doomed.

Editorial: Enbridge approval report worth reading

Less than a week before Christmas Day, the Joint Review Panel recommended the approval of the Enbridge Pipeline by the Federal government. Reactions have been as polarized as the preceding…

Murray Rankin hosts 20th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

ust over a dozen people gathered in front of the Ogden Breakwater on the morning of Sept. 28 for the 20th annual Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, hosted by Victoria MP…

10-year moratorium on campus deforestation to expire

The trail on the journey between the MacLaurin building end of the quad and the Engineering building is as eccentric as routes between classes go. It seems like a trek…

Growing fibre, growing concern

Last stages of B.C. forest plan disquieting for environmental groups

Local libraries lending climate action kits

“I’ll take a bucket of climate action to go, please” is a phrase people may soon hear around local libraries.

Proposed Vancouver Island Spine Trail: backbone of eco-tourism?

Imagine the experience of hiking or biking through the wilderness of Vancouver Island from Victoria all the way to the northern tip on one continuous trail.

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