/sustainability/taxonomy/term/172/all en /sustainability/channels/event/mcisce-interconnect-conference-2024-359660 <p>The McISCE Interconnect Conference is on October 2!<br /> <br /> This year’s theme is Community Led Electrification.</p> Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:09:53 +0000 admin 3331 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/mcgill-spinoff-fex-energy-receives-major-grant-axelys-358220 <p><i>Company technology leverages high energy density of iron to provide carbon-free, stable renewable energy that is environmentally safe and highly dispatchable</i></p> Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:43:00 +0000 admin 3345 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/global-shift-greener-economies-happening-because-economic-benefits-panelists-say-23443 <h3>The global transition to clean energy is underway and Canada is lagging, experts speaking at the Broadbent Institute's Progress Summit said Saturday.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on March 29, 2014 | <a href="http://www.hilltimes.com/" target="_blank">The Hill Times</a><br />by Laura Ryckewaert</p></blockquote> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:56:11 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1767 at /sustainability /sustainability/fume-hood-experiment-sp0117 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>August<strong> </strong>2013 - April 2015</p> Tue, 25 Mar 2014 03:02:13 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1754 at /sustainability /sustainability/codejam-sp0116 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>October 2013 - November 2013</p> Tue, 25 Mar 2014 02:50:15 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1752 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/trottier-symposium-sustainable-engineering-energy-and-design-drafting-green-blueprint- <h3><i>The first annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design will be held March 17-18 at le Centre Mont-Royal from 5:30-7:30 p.m.</i>.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on March 12, 2014 | <a href="http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/" target="_blank">UUֱ�� Reporter</a><br />by UUֱ�� Reporter Staff</p></blockquote> Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:17:00 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1737 at /sustainability /sustainability/electric-grounds-equipment-sp0109 <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <b>COMPLETED </b>June 2013 - June 2014</p> <p>This project makes use of resources from the SPF to purchase battery-operated equipment for the UUֱ�� Grounds Department, replacing the current gas-powered maintenance equipment, such as leaf blowers. Along with a reduction in air and noise pollution, the new equipment will be safer for the employees, who have responded enthusiastically to the change.</p> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 21:22:52 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1692 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0110-ckuts-under-weather <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>May 2013 - April 2015</p> Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:44:29 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1688 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/event/mse-annual-environment-public-lecture-david-owen-232830 <p>No Registration Required</p> Fri, 07 Feb 2014 20:44:27 +0000 lilith.wyatt@mcgill.ca 1653 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/troubled-waters-world%E2%80%99s-groundwater-increasingly-risk-232693 <h3>The groundwater footprint. If you haven’t heard that term yet, read on, because it soon could become as familiar as “carbon footprint.”</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published January 29 2014 | <a href="http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/01/troubled-waters-much-of-world-uses-groundwater-unsustainably/" target="_blank">UUֱ�� Reporter</a><br />Written by Patrick McDonagh</p></blockquote> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:31:18 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1641 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/petrocultures-2014-preview-232692 <h3>The myriad of ways in which petroleum is reshaping our politics, economy and culture will be the focus of the 2014 annual conference of the UUֱ�� Institute for the Study of Canada, to be held on Feb. 6 and 7.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on January 28 2014 | <a href="http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/01/petrocultures-2014-preview/" target="_blank">UUֱ�� Reporter</a><br />Written by Will Straw</p></blockquote> Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:03:57 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1640 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/froid-consommation-d%E2%80%99energie-ecologie-232583 <h3>Comment une université comme UUֱ�� est-elle chauffée l’hiver?</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on January 21 2014 | <a href="http://www.delitfrancais.com/2014/01/21/froid-consommation-denergie-ecologie/" target="_blank">Le Délit</a><br />Written by Camille Gris Roy</p> </blockquote> <p> </p> <p>L’hiver à UUֱ��, ce sont environ 225 bâtiments étendus sur près de 850 000 m² qui doivent être chauffés.</p> Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:03:59 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1637 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/event/3rd-annual-ssmu-sustainability-case-competition-application-deadline-232481 <h3>How would you sustainably invest $10 million?</h3> <p>Applications for the 3rd annual SSMU Sustainability Case Competition are due January 24th at 11:59pm, and this year’s topic is sustainable investments.</p> Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:11:23 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1630 at /sustainability /sustainability/sp0102-reducing-chemical-lab-waste <p style="border:2px dashed #85AD56; padding:10px">Status: <strong>COMPLETED </strong>December 2014</p> <p>The 'Reducing Lab Chemical Waste' project takes an interdisciplinary (managerial, chemical and educational) approach to minimize the total output of chemical waste produced by the UUֱ�� Chemistry Department. Two students in separate labs will monitor the waste output of their work and extrapolate data to develop a model for waste segregation that can be applied  to other labs in the future.</p> Fri, 22 Nov 2013 16:05:40 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1608 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/sustainable-living-mcgill-231744 <h3>Listen to the full broadcast below</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published November 21 2013 | <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/Daybreak%2BMontreal/ID/2419752909/" target="_blank">CBC Daybreak Montreal</a> </p> </blockquote> <p>ECOLE (Education Community Living Environment) is an ongoing project from UUֱ�� that aims to create a sustainable living house in the Milton-Parc community.</p> <p><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/player/AudioMobile/Daybreak%2BMontreal/ID/2419752909/" target="_blank">Listen to the full broadcast</a>.</p> Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:33:39 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1605 at /sustainability