When she was a kid, Patricia Corcoran would examine interesting little stones that lined the gravel road near her home. “I always wanted to become a geologist,” she recalled. These days, the Western professor of sedimentary petrology is focused l …
Sustainability
McBean tapped among Canada’s Clean 50
Western Geography professor Gordon McBean was named among Canada’s Clean 50.
‘Vision becomes reality’ as Western opens the Richard Ivey Building
Ivey Business School Dean Carol Stephenson will be the first to admit the power of dreaming can indeed be powerful. And the new $110-million Richard Ivey Building, officially opened Monday afternoon, is proof of that.
Western, Goodwill may expand clever collection push
Goodwill can’t wait until Western students move out each April.
Celebrating Clean Air Commute week
Many do not think of the impacts associated with our daily commutes. But Western sustainability leaders are joining Ontario-wide calls to take a week to think about their commute.
Apocalypse Wow: Course projects lesson of past onto bleak future
Bridget Elliott loves making history come alive for her students. But using the undead to accomplish this task is, admittedly, an unusual route to making the subject palpable.
Investing institutional energy into energy conservation
Last summer, Western set the bar high for dealing with high temperatures and even higher energy bills. Now, Facilities Management is looking to build on that success with a continued energy conservation push this summer.
Sustainability efforts earn nod from The Princeton Review
Less than three months after releasing its universitywide sustainability strategy, Creating a Sustainable Western, Western joined The University of British Columbia as the only two Canadian universities profiled in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition.
2013 Western Green Awards
Huron University College student Gideon Bell has made it his mission to bring a greater focus on the environment at the affiliate college. As environmental commissioner of Huron’s students’ council and leader of its Green Team, Bell has teamed up with EnviroWestern for a tree-planting event in September, spent two summers growing a beautiful reading garden and organized several fundraising and fact-finding events to support environmental sustainability.
TEDxWesternU speakers to share world-changing ideas
Diving with sharks. Creating ‘skin’ for buildings. Sailing with pirates on the fringes of capitalism.
Western will power down for World Earth Hour
This weekend, Western will join the world in turning turn out the lights this weekend.
Art project lets water discussion flow stories with
If a picture paints a thousand words, Patrick Mahon hopes his ongoing project speaks volumes when it comes to the subject of water and its cultural and environmental importance.
Environmental sustainability strategy hopes to embody the Western Experience
Gitta Kulczycki knows tomorrow won’t be much different from today. In fact, she stresses it will take a whole lot of tomorrows to get to where Western wants to be on environmental sustainability. But that’s no excuse for not getting started.
McBean tapped among Canada’s Clean 50
Western Geography professor Gordon McBean was named among Canada’s Clean 50.
‘Vision becomes reality’ as Western opens the Richard Ivey Building
Ivey Business School Dean Carol Stephenson will be the first to admit the power of dreaming can indeed be powerful. And the new $110-million Richard Ivey Building, officially opened Monday afternoon, is proof of that.
Western, Goodwill may expand clever collection push
Goodwill can’t wait until Western students move out each April.
Celebrating Clean Air Commute week
Many do not think of the impacts associated with our daily commutes. But Western sustainability leaders are joining Ontario-wide calls to take a week to think about their commute.
Apocalypse Wow: Course projects lesson of past onto bleak future
Bridget Elliott loves making history come alive for her students. But using the undead to accomplish this task is, admittedly, an unusual route to making the subject palpable.
Investing institutional energy into energy conservation
Last summer, Western set the bar high for dealing with high temperatures and even higher energy bills. Now, Facilities Management is looking to build on that success with a continued energy conservation push this summer.
Sustainability efforts earn nod from The Princeton Review
Less than three months after releasing its universitywide sustainability strategy, Creating a Sustainable Western, Western joined The University of British Columbia as the only two Canadian universities profiled in The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition.
2013 Western Green Awards
Huron University College student Gideon Bell has made it his mission to bring a greater focus on the environment at the affiliate college. As environmental commissioner of Huron’s students’ council and leader of its Green Team, Bell has teamed up with EnviroWestern for a tree-planting event in September, spent two summers growing a beautiful reading garden and organized several fundraising and fact-finding events to support environmental sustainability.
TEDxWesternU speakers to share world-changing ideas
Diving with sharks. Creating ‘skin’ for buildings. Sailing with pirates on the fringes of capitalism.
Western will power down for World Earth Hour
This weekend, Western will join the world in turning turn out the lights this weekend.
Art project lets water discussion flow stories with
If a picture paints a thousand words, Patrick Mahon hopes his ongoing project speaks volumes when it comes to the subject of water and its cultural and environmental importance.
Environmental sustainability strategy hopes to embody the Western Experience
Gitta Kulczycki knows tomorrow won’t be much different from today. In fact, she stresses it will take a whole lot of tomorrows to get to where Western wants to be on environmental sustainability. But that’s no excuse for not getting started.