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  • Volunteers needed for third Repair Café

    Volunteers needed for third Repair Café

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    BY NATALIA NAHON After two years of success, the Repair Café is coming back to Trafalgar Campus. Wai Chu Cheng, Sheridan’s Sustainability Coordinator, is asking for skilled people to help fix household items. Repair Café is an event where people bring broken items- anything from computers to small appliances- and volunteers repair them for free.…

  • Repair Cafe fixes a steam cleaner and more

    Repair Cafe fixes a steam cleaner and more

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    BY GREG LOWENTHAL AND MARK ELGIE The student centre at Davis Campus was buzzing with the sounds of tools and a steam cleaner getting unclogged as the Repair Cafe was in full effect March 17. The event, similar to the one that took place at Trafalgar Campus in October, allows the public to bring in…

  • Furniture studio changes waste to fuel

    Furniture studio changes waste to fuel

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    BY ANDREW GOULART The furniture studio at Trafalgar Campus is giving away free wooden briquettes to students and faculty as a way to keep the wood out of landfills. The studio purchased a German-made wood briquetting machine last year that presses large amounts of wood dust and shavings into small cylinders, known as briquettes. “What…

  • Suzuki shares Blue Dot movement to heal the planet

    Suzuki shares Blue Dot movement to heal the planet

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    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…

  • Planting sustainable roots at Sheridan College

    Planting sustainable roots at Sheridan College

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    STORY BY GREG LOWENTHAL Not rain, nor wind nor cold could dampen their spirits. Students and volunteers were out in full force on Saturday, October 3 planting trees at Trafalgar Campus to create greener spaces in the Sheridan community. They were also joined by environmental group Oakville Green and staff from Sheridan. While there was…

  • Mission Zero seeks student volunteer support

    Mission Zero seeks student volunteer support

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    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

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    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…

  • Sheridan takes out the trash

    Sheridan takes out the trash

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    VIDEO BY ROBERT SGOTTO The office of sustainability spearheads Sheridan’s green plan by reducing waste to landfills. On Oct. 16, volunteers and co-op students helped sort and audit Sheridan’s waste, the first time since April of last year. There’s a lot of confusion on what waste goes where, and coffee cups seems to end up…

  • College lacking meaningful climate change approach

    College lacking meaningful climate change approach

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    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…

  • It’s not easy helping college go green

    It’s not easy helping college go green

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    STORY AND PHOTO BY CHRIS COUTTS The eye-catching waste bins promoting ecological sustainability spread across Sheridan’s Trafalgar Campus have been around for more than two years now. However, the changes in school infrastructure and student lifestyle that the bins promote is a slow and complicated undertaking being overseen by Sheridan’s Office for Sustainability. Amid the…

  • New breed discovered: locavores

    New breed discovered: locavores

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    STORY AND PHOTOS BY TAYLOR SHAPPERT It’s 8 a.m. Where did your breakfast come from? Sheridan student Shayne Asmundson had a Tim Hortons breakfast sandwich, which costs about $3.00 and could originate from far from the restaurant. Author Sarah Elton thinks a responsible meal choice would be buying local, sustainably grown produce. She will be…

  • Sheridan: Sustainability through the years

    Sheridan: Sustainability through the years

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    TIMELINE BY NAT GILPO