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.
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
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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
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.
On March 30th, 2012, a regional workshop exploring the de-growth movement and alternatives to constant economic growth will be held Royal Roads University.
Community Research Connections partnered with Royal Roads University's Masters of Intercultural and International Communications program to create this mini-documentary on environmental education. The video begins with the aims environmental and then notes that this form of education can happen within our communities, wherever there is green space or wherever we can connect with an aspect of nature. Human communities do not have to be completely inseparable from nature and we can learn about our place in the larger ecosystem by looking at our own 'backyard'.
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.