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Suzuki shares Blue Dot movement to heal the planet

Suzuki shares Blue Dot movement to heal the planet

STORY & PHOTOGRAPHY BY NATALIA CAMARENA “Is a forest a sacred grove, or simply timber and pulp? Is a river the veins and capillaries of the land, or is it for power and irrigation? Is the soil a complex community of organisms, or just dirt? Is another species our biological kin, or a resource? Is […]

Mission Zero seeks student volunteer support

Mission Zero seeks student volunteer support

STORY BY GREG LOWENTHAL “Your mission, Sheridan College – should you choose to accept it – is to eliminate all waste from the three campuses by the year 2020”. That’s the ambitious goal of the Mission Zero initiative, which was started in 2013. For Mission Zero to succeed, it needs the support of students and […]

We can rebuild it, we have the technology

We can rebuild it, we have the technology

STORY BY RYAN MARSHALL From torn shirts and drafty winter coats to flickering laptop screens and hotplates gone cold, about a dozen Sheridan staff and students brought their items in need of repair to the college’s second Repair Café, held at Davis last Thursday from 12 to 2. The event was run in conjunction with […]

College lacking meaningful climate change approach

College lacking meaningful climate change approach

COLUMN AND PHOTO BY CHRIS COUTTS The dazzling sustainability metal waste bins that litter Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus grounds illustrate what appears to be the Emerald City of environmentalism. But the college administration’s style-over-substance approach to some of the most important decisions an institution can make is the same sort of thinking that landed our planet […]

Sheridan: Sustainability through the years

Sheridan: Sustainability through the years

TIMELINE BY NAT GILPO

Mission aims to cut Waste to Zero

Mission aims to cut Waste to Zero

INFOGRAPHIC BY KAGAN PITTMAN Get the scoop on waste disposal and recycling habits at Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus, and learn how the school will go green with Mission Zero. Read more on Mission Zero and what progress the school is making in an associated article by Jaime Polmateer.

Sheridan envisions ‘an energy culture’

Sheridan envisions ‘an energy culture’

STORY AND PHOTOS BY NAT GILPO Sheridan College is investing $30.6 million over the next seven years to “re-envision its energy future” and launch a series of energy-saving programs it is calling Mission Zero. The project, unveiled in August, introduces Sheridan’s Integrated Energy and Climate Master Plan, which aims to cut the college’s energy and […]