Reimagining playgrounds. Protecting campus from flooding. Probing the “manufacturing clean-up” of London companies. Helping hospitals pinpoint staff knowledge gaps. Western’s Thinking Globally, Acting Locally (TGAL) program has boosted sustainabil …
Sustainability
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.
Winders: Work on sustainability just getting started for university community
John Robinson has been here before. As the University of British Columbia’s associate provost for sustainability, Robinson helms the most highly lauded campus in Canada when it comes to sustainability. So, perhaps better than anyone else in the country, he knows what you’re thinking right now.
Future of sustainability
Sustainability for business translates into effectively managing the triple bottom line – financial, environmental and social outcomes – whether now, or 40 years from now. Will business be more sustainable in four decades? I see both signs of hope, and indications history will repeat itself.
Western wins Ontario sustainability award
Western has been selected as a finalist for the Ontario Business Achievement Award (OBAA) in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) Corporate Governance Award category by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students
For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.”
Join the conversation on campus sustainability
As part of Western’s Imagine 2022 initiative, you are invited to participate in a Virtual Sustainability Slam, an online brainstorming session on sustainability ideas for the Western community.
World Cafe sets sustainability table at Western
Western community members with an environmental ‘sustainability wish list’ can help translate imagination into reality at the World Cafe being held Oct. 25.
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.
Winders: Work on sustainability just getting started for university community
John Robinson has been here before. As the University of British Columbia’s associate provost for sustainability, Robinson helms the most highly lauded campus in Canada when it comes to sustainability. So, perhaps better than anyone else in the country, he knows what you’re thinking right now.
Future of sustainability
Sustainability for business translates into effectively managing the triple bottom line – financial, environmental and social outcomes – whether now, or 40 years from now. Will business be more sustainable in four decades? I see both signs of hope, and indications history will repeat itself.
Western wins Ontario sustainability award
Western has been selected as a finalist for the Ontario Business Achievement Award (OBAA) in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO) Corporate Governance Award category by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
Sustainability workshop targets faculty, PhD students
For Richard Ivey School of Business professor Tima Bansal, sustainability requires collaboration between academics and business. “We need to do this together,” she says. “No one individual can move the system.”
Join the conversation on campus sustainability
As part of Western’s Imagine 2022 initiative, you are invited to participate in a Virtual Sustainability Slam, an online brainstorming session on sustainability ideas for the Western community.
World Cafe sets sustainability table at Western
Western community members with an environmental ‘sustainability wish list’ can help translate imagination into reality at the World Cafe being held Oct. 25.