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Environment

Is Vancouver home to the greenest building in the world?

John Robinson, the visionary behind UBC's new Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, believes this one building can, in fact, change the world.

By published Feb 1, 2012

Vancouver's Living Walls

Local design firm Green Over Grey is transforming the city's concrete surfaces into thriving, soil-free gardens, one building at time

By published Sep 1, 2011

60 Million Honeybees

Swarms of honeybees, who call the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel home, have Vancouver's downtown core abuzz

By published Sep 1, 2011

Sturgeon and the Fraser River's Conservation

The monster fish that inhabit the Fraser are more than just the last wild stock of Pacific sturgeon in the world they’re a barometer of the health of the river

By published Jul 1, 2010

Dead Wood: What is Killing North Shore Forests

Over nearly two decades, in a grove of old-growth forest on the North Shore, UBC's Lori Daniels has witnessed a doubling of the mortality rate of our trees

By published Jun 1, 2010

Mark Jaccard Talks Climate Change

SFU economist and climate change expert Mark Jaccard on Earth Hour, energy-efficient light bulbs, and our capacity for self-delusion

By published Mar 1, 2010

Tzeporah Berman's Green Idea

The original tree hugger has a big, pragmatic agenda. Meet Canada’s next-generation climate change warrior

By published Nov 1, 2009

Crops and Robbers

Community gardens, designed to feed the multitudes, now benefit the larcenous

By published Oct 1, 2009
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