/sustainability/taxonomy/term/172/all en /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聽</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">黑料不打烊 Reporter</a><br />by 黑料不打烊 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 黑料不打烊 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聽</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鈥檛 heard that term yet, read on, because it soon could become as familiar as 鈥渃arbon footprint.鈥�</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">黑料不打烊 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 黑料不打烊 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">黑料不打烊 Reporter</a><br />Written by聽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 universit茅 comme 黑料不打烊 est-elle chauff茅e l鈥檋iver?</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on January 21 2014 | <a href="http://www.delitfrancais.com/2014/01/21/froid-consommation-denergie-ecologie/" target="_blank">Le D茅lit</a><br />Written by聽Camille Gris Roy</p> </blockquote> <p>聽</p> <p>L鈥檋iver 脿 黑料不打烊, ce sont environ 225 b芒timents 茅tendus sur pr猫s de 850 000 m虏 qui doivent 锚tre chauff茅s.</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鈥檚 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聽</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 黑料不打烊 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聽 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>聽</p> </blockquote> <p>ECOLE (Education Community Living Environment) is an ongoing project from 黑料不打烊 University 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 /sustainability/channels/news/great-green-north-231742 <h3>Many campuses have adopted clean energy policies to reduce their carbon footprint.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published by <a href="http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/the_great_green_north/" target="_blank">Earth Island Journal</a><br />Written by Megan Tady</p> </blockquote> <p>Canadian students have flocked to join or start sustainability initiatives on their college campuses like they鈥檙e running for the dinner bell.</p> Fri, 22 Nov 2013 00:18:46 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1603 at /sustainability