Eco-anxiety on campus
Over the past two years, many students in Dalhousie’s College of Sustainability department have reported feeling the symptoms of “eco-anxiety.”
David Suzuki weighs in on Climate Week and more
Climate Week kicked off last Friday with world-wide protests. In Halifax, David Suzuki shared his thoughts on climate action and young people involved.
Climate change’s existence should not be a debate
It’s 2019 and Canada is determined to keep its citizens trapped in their climate change comfort zones, slipping back into its well-worn shirt of denial just in time for this […]
Good People Doing Good Things: Lily Barraclough
Lily Barraclough has a lot on her plate: she’s a student, she volunteers with multiple organizations and she’s a program coordinator for iMatter. Barraclough came to Halifax in 2016 and […]
Sustainability not just a society
Sustainability is one of those words you’ve probably been hearing a lot lately. That’s because, with issues like climate change, people are coming together to figure out what can be […]
The cost of eating meat
If you could help prevent future drastic climate changes and natural disasters, would you? If you could limit the time you spend in the emergency waiting rooms and doctors offices, […]
Divest Dal camps on quad
In true Dalhousie fashion, the first tent to go up was yellow. Over the following week the tents multiplied like mushrooms, sprouting up across the Studley Quad as members of Divest Dalhousie […]
Dalhousie on track to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets
Rochelle Owen, the director of the Office of Sustainability at Dalhousie University, says she’s confident the university can meet its greenhouse gas reduction target of 50 per cent by 2020, […]
Island off PEI swallowed by sea shows Canada’s coastal struggle
Perched precariously on the Northeastern shore of mainland Prince Edward Island sits a small island shaped like a crab claw. For now. Lennox Island has undergone multiple unwanted facelifts courtesy […]
From the ends of the earth to Halifax
Jasveen Brar has visited both poles and has seen firsthand some of the challenges these remote areas of the planet face. From seeing plastic water bottles among half a million […]