As ecological and economic pressures intensify across the global food system, Ivey Business School is responding with a bold, research-driven commitment – the establishment of the Abell-Hodgson Chair in Regenerative Agriculture. Made possible thro …
Sustainability
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.
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.