Roll Up the Rim and recycle, environmentalists urge Tim Hortons
Three young environmentalists from Calgary are trying to make Tim Hortons’ beloved Roll Up the Rim contest more environmentally friendly.
Three young environmentalists from Calgary are trying to make Tim Hortons’ beloved Roll Up the Rim contest more environmentally friendly.
The use of flame retardants is a social justice issue, an environmental chemistry professor told a small audience at S. Walter Stewart Library on Oct. 2.
About 40 per cent of food produced in Canada goes uneaten each year, but the Trashed and Wasted aims to improve this.
Taking care of the environment isn’t only for activists … or men. Although research published by the Journal of Arboriculture says only 10 per cent of their industry is represented by women, some female youth in…
One wanted to clean up the environment; the other just wanted a job. Together they became the first women to live at one of Russia’s Antarctic research stations, Bellingshausen, in 26 years.
Carol Devine and Wendy Trusler arrived in the remote continent in 1996 for Project Antarctica II, a civilian cleanup initiative. Both women kept journals of their daily activities, and Trusler, the chef, kept a record of her recipes. The Antarctic Book of Cooking and Cleaning combines their personal stories of the expedition and will be published worldwide this May.
When most people think of manure, the first thing that comes to mind is that it needs to be thrown away and disregarded immediately.
Walking through Morningside Park you’ll see beautiful streams, people throwing tennis balls for their dogs, and a slew of trash littering all sides of the parking lot. But not for too much longer. Toronto Mayor…
The Rouge Valley Conservation Centre is an environmentally-rich area and many events such as an annual deer count are held there to make sure it stays that way. On Saturday afternoon approximately 25 volunteers and event coordinator, Paul Harpley, conducted a deer count of the Rouge Valley area. This is just one of the events that helps with environmental protection.
Without motivation and countless hours of hard work, the University of Toronto mountain bike team wouldn’t be able to train in the centre of Canada’s largest city. Toronto and mountain bikes are two images that…
Tar sands developments are among the most destructive projects on Earth and not many know the damage they do, says Derek Leahy. “Very few people outside of Canada … and even within Canada … know about them,” he says. To change that, Leahy created International Stop the Tar Sands Day, which falls on June 18.