Community News Archive

Ezio Manzini - Social Innovation for Sustainability

On April 5, 2012 Royal Roads University hosted visiting scholar and Leading Sustainable Design Thinker, Ezio Manzini, as part of a Robert Bateman Critical Conversation on how Art and Design are helping people around the world respond to the complex challenges of our times. Organized by Dr.

Surviving Progress - a special screening with Ronald Wright

On Wednesday April 25th at the Victoria Event Centre, Open Cinema in partnership with Sierra Club BC is putting on a special screening of the beautiful and hard-hitting Canadian docu-essay, Surviving Progress.

Popularizing Research

Edited by Dr. Phillip Vannini of Royal Roads University, Popularizing Research describes methods of communicating research ideas by utilizing more that the traditional publications approach.

Drake Landing, Canada's first solar-powered community

A case study on Canada's first solar-powered community, Drake Landing, has recently been released through the Partner for Climate Protection program, a climate change initiative created through partnership between the Federation of Canadian Municipalities and the

Women Suffrage and Beyond

In honour of International Women's Day, Women Suffrage and Beyond, a new website on social justice and gendre equality, has been launched by a research team based out of the University of British Columbia.  Women Suffrage and Beyond aims to educate and engage the public in making the connections between the vote, democracy, and social justice.

Canadian Green Health Care Digest

The Canadian Green Health Care Digest provides the lastest in news and initiatives in green health care, and will inform you on the latest developments in the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care's projects and activities. You can subscribe to this publication free of charge by contacting Jin Park at Jin@greenhealthcare.ca.  To browse through previous issues of this publication, you can visit Canadian Green Health Care Digest archives.

Giving farmers the tools to fight famine

Giving farmers the tools to fight famine is an article recently published in Embassy Magazine that discusses how climate change adaptation strategies can combat socio-economic issues such as poverty and famine.  A rapidly shifting climate has altered many local environments making them inhospitable for traditional agriculture practices, and attempting to grow foods in the same fashion done by previous

Sustainable Technology Development in Canada

With global opportunities for clean technologies growing exponentially, Canadian companies, financiers, entrepreneurs, post-secondary institutions and more are tapping into the emerging cleantech market.

- Globe and Mail, February 27, 2012.

 

Scale of the Universe

Scale of the Universe is a interactive animation, developed by Cary and Mike Huang, that allows you to view the boundaries of size from a resolution high enough for displaying quantum foam to the macroscopic view of what scientists hypothesize to be the boundaries of the entire universe. This interactive piece displays sizes and scales purely from an objective quantitative angle and is not presented with commentary.

Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogues (Metro Vancouver)

Partnering with Chambers of Commerce and Boards of Trade across Metro Vancouver, the Future of the Region Sustainability Dialogues is an outreach component of the Sustainable Region Initiative (SRI) aimed at stimulating thoughts and conversation on how to transition to a zero waste economy. The dialogues will consist of panelists of experts on environmental, social, and economic sustainability issues, and the outcomes of the discussions aim to inform community agents and descision-makers on how to transition to a less consumption-based economic system.