/sustainability/taxonomy/term/708/all en /sustainability/article/mcgill-community-members-generate-bold-ideas-addressing-sustainability-challenges-campus <p>On February 9th, the 黑料不打烊 Office of Sustainability and the <a href="http://environmentssmu.wixsite.com/ssmuenvironment">Environment Committee</a> of the Student Society of 黑料不打烊 University (SSMU) hosted the very first Sustainability Projects Fund Challenge. With about $1 million in funding available each year, the <a href="/sustainability/spf">Sustainability Projects Fund</a> (SPF) is the largest seed-fund of its kind in North America.</p> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:41:14 +0000 Monica Allaby 2711 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/city-grown-vegetables-could-feed-urban-dwellers-237749 <h3>In a number of cities around the world, residents have transformed previously derelict sites, ignored corners and over-grown verges into green and productive vegetable plots</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on July 30, 2014 | <a href="http://environmentalresearchweb.org" target="_blank">Environmental Research Web</a></p> </blockquote> <p>For example, in York, UK, an <a href="http://edibleyork.org.uk">"edible map"</a> reveals that there is garlic mustard and horseradish growing in abundance alongside the river, and plums will be available on a tree in a street in Osbaldwick by August.</p> Fri, 01 Aug 2014 06:16:08 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1934 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/can-urban-agriculture-feed-worlds-growing-cities-237707 <h3>Living in a city puts everything at your fingertips: From fashion and movies to social movements and political experiments, residents of urban areas experience most everything before it trickles through the suburbs and into rural communities.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on July 29, 2014 | <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/" target="_blank">Yahoo! News</a></p> <p>by: Willy Blackmore</p></blockquote> Thu, 31 Jul 2014 08:45:42 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1933 at /sustainability