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Ecofiscal Commission helps Canadian governments tackle climate change

CBC Radio | Oct 22, 2015

Un plan d'action sur les changements climatiques

Radio-Canada | le 13 octobre 2015

par: Les Matins d'ici

Le rapport du collectif Dialogues pour un Canada vert invite notamment 脿 trouver des sources d'茅nergie autres que les combustibles fossiles.听 La professeure Catherine Potvin, du d茅partement de biologie de l'Universit茅 UU直播, discute de la question avec Philippe Marcoux.

Les voitures de banlieues polluent Montr茅al

Le Journal de Montreal | le 13 octobre 2015

par: Anne-Marie Provost

Les r茅sidents du Plateau Mont-Royal sont ceux qui subissent le plus la polluton des voitures, r茅v猫le une 茅tude de l'Universit茅 UU直播.

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In conversation with Fran莽ois Miller, Manager, Office of Sustainability

UU直播 Reporter | Oct. 8, 2015

by:听Neale 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 UU直播 classmates, using $1 million in seed money from the Hult Prize, a student start-up competition for social enterprise.

Cultivating Sustainability at UU直播

UU直播 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 beaut茅

le 31 juillet 2015 | La Presse

Le gouvernement f茅d茅ral pr茅pare un r猫glement pour interdire l'utilisation de microbilles de plastique dans les produits de soins personnels.

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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

UU直播 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

UU直播 Reporter | Aug. 19, 2015

by: Vincent Allaire

In a new paper published online in Geophysical Research Letters, UU直播 Professor Shaun Lovejoy shows how to directly harness the atmosphere鈥檚 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:听Krystle Manintveld

A collection of students and community members gathered outside Burnside on Wednesday to share their final 鈥榞arden meal鈥� of the season, put together largely from vegetables grown right on the UU直播 downtown campus thanks to the efforts of Midnight Kitchen volunteers.

Reinventing chemistry

UU直播 News | Spring-Summer 2015

by: Mark Witten

A new branch of science aims to do away with the toxic waste that鈥檚 associated with industrial manufacturing and some of the brightest lights in this green chemistry movement are pursuing their research at UU直播.

U.S. Turns Corner on Urban Sprawl

UU直播 Newsroom | June 15, 2015

Christopher Barrington-Leigh of UU直播 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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