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Michael Pollan Visits UBC Farm

The soil savior gives the faithful hope that there is indeed an alternative to agribusiness

By John Burns

Design Clinic

For a women’s-only health facility on the Downtown Eastside, a pod of UBC architecture students has created a storefront pharmacy unlike any other

By Ian Bullock

Rees's Thesis

UBC professor William Rees believes we’ve got into a terrible mess by thinking of ourselves as divorced from nature rather than part of it. That’s why he developed the “ecological footprint” that’s become the global standard for measuring an individual’s impact on the environment

By James Glave

Fixed

Long before the Insite supervised-injection site survived a federal appeal to close it, the Harper government wasted millions and alienated academe in its campaign to shut it down

By Paul Webster

The Time Machine

It's been called the biggest scientific project ever. And Vancouver scientists are poised to help understand the origins of the universe.

By Bruce Grierson