In conversation with François Miller, Manager, Office of Sustainability
Â鶹AV Reporter | Oct. 8, 2015
by:ÌýNeale McDevitt
How to Breed a Tasty Cricket
The Atlantic | Sept 24, 2015
Aspire Food Group is one of four major farms in the nation that breeds insects specifically for food. Mott founded the company as an MBA student in 2013 with a group of his Â鶹AV classmates, using $1 million in seed money from the Hult Prize, a student start-up competition for social enterprise.
Cultivating Sustainability at Â鶹AV
Â鶹AV Reporter | Sept. 12, 2015
by: Chris Wrobel
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Feds to ban microbeads in personal care products
July 31, 2015 | The Toronto Sun
Officials say a scientific review that included an analysis of more than 130 scientific papers, as well as consultations with experts, has revealed that the presence of microbeads in the environment may have long-term effects on biological diversity and ecosystems.
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Ottawa veut interdire les microbilles de plastiques dans les produits de beauté
le 31 juillet 2015 | La Presse
Le gouvernement fédéral prépare un règlement pour interdire l'utilisation de microbilles de plastique dans les produits de soins personnels.
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Evil orbs: Abrasives in toothpaste and face scrubs are poisoning fish
The Economist | July 31, 2015
ANTHONY RICCIARDI, a scientist at Â鶹AV, was looking for evidence that an invasive Asian clam had colonised a warm spot in the St Lawrence river when a member of his team made a more headline-worthy discovery
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Adapting Greenhouses For Region
Nation News | Sept. 3, 2015
by: Kathryn Condon
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MCGILL researchers hope to further agricultural productivity in the Caribbean (at Bellairs Research Institute, Barbados) with the development of greenhouse technology specially suited for this part of the world.
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Twelve college campuses leading the way for sustainable dining
The Christian Science Monitor | Aug. 26, 2015
By: Clare Algozin
Â鶹AV in Montreal, Quebec, currently spends 47 percent of its food budget on produce from its own on-campus farm and from growers within 300 miles of the campus.
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Harnessing the butterfly effect
Â鶹AV Reporter | Aug. 19, 2015
by: Vincent Allaire
In a new paper published online in Geophysical Research Letters, Â鶹AV Professor Shaun Lovejoy shows how to directly harness the atmosphere’s elephantine memory to produce temperature forecasts that are somewhat more accurate than conventional numerical computer models.
Midnight Kitchen celebrates successful harvest
Mcgill Reporter | July 31, 2015
by:ÌýKrystle Manintveld
A collection of students and community members gathered outside Burnside on Wednesday to share their final ‘garden meal’ of the season, put together largely from vegetables grown right on the Â鶹AV downtown campus thanks to the efforts of Midnight Kitchen volunteers.
Reinventing chemistry
Â鶹AV News | Spring-Summer 2015
by: Mark Witten
A new branch of science aims to do away with the toxic waste that’s associated with industrial manufacturing and some of the brightest lights in this green chemistry movement are pursuing their research at Â鶹AV.
U.S. Turns Corner on Urban Sprawl
Â鶹AV Newsroom | June 15, 2015
Christopher Barrington-Leigh of Â鶹AV in Montreal measured sprawl by looking at construction of streets and how many roads meet at intersections to form corners or nodes.
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Â鶹AV embraces sustainable procurement
Â鶹AV Reporter | May 4, 2015
When Â鶹AV adopted its first Procurement Policy in spring 2013, it gave Procurement Services the mandate to establish a culture of sustainable procurement practices at Â鶹AV and in its wider community.
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Clean ride mapper: Cycling the less polluted routes
The Â鶹AV Reporter | April 15, 2015
By: Katherine GombayÌý
Cyclists in Montreal and Toronto can now choose the least polluted routes to get around their cities thanks to an online tool developed at Â鶹AV.Ìý
Aboriginal students, staff at Â鶹AV call for more recognition
CBC News | April 23, 2015
Kakwiranoron Cook, Â鶹AV's aboriginal outreach administrator, would like to see the university put up a more noticeable monument.
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