They’re important for agriculture, but they’re not so good for the environment “Beekeeping is for people; it's not a conservation practice,” says Sheila Colla, an assistant professor and conservation biologist at Toronto’s York University, Canada. “People mistakenly think keeping honey bees, or helping honey bees, is somehow helping the native bees, which are at risk […]
How well do you know your bees? York University researchers have found bee knowledge in Canada lacking with about half of those surveyed thinking honey bees are wild and native to Canada. They’re not. They were brought over from Europe and are managed by beekeepers like other farm animals, such as dairy cattle for example, […]
Managing risk Critics have raised environmental concerns related to landfills, particularly with respect to possible groundwater contamination. It's a concern that Calvin Lakhan, a waste researcher at York University, can understand. "There's a lot of safeguards put in place to mitigate or completely avoid a lot of the environmental hazards that landfills could pose. With […]
Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson announced on October 7 that Canada will be banning many single-use plastics by 2021, as a means of achieving the country’s goal of producing zero plastic waste by 2030. Among the soon-to-be banned items are: plastic straws, plastic cutlery, plastic grocery bags, six-pack rings for beverages, stir sticks, […]
The inaugural Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Seminar Series will continue on Oct. 20 Assistant Professor Lisa Myers' Finding Flowers project presents the inaugural Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) Seminar Series Seminar Series, "Miijim: Food as Relations." Miijim is a fall and winter conversation series presenting renowned Indigenous, Black and People of Colour food […]
By Kean BirchContributor Tue., Oct. 13, 2020timer3 min. read updateArticle was updated Oct. 09, 2020 Big Tech was in the policy spotlight again recently with another U.S. Congressional hearing on Oct. 1, this time focused on “Proposals to Strengthen the Antitrust Laws and Restore Competition Online.” The hearing was the culmination of a long Congressional investigation into […]
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Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies, a postcolonial scholar, and one of the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcoloniality to the field of Development Studies. He first came to prominence in the early 2000s through a series of journal articles on participatory development, that is, the practice of involving beneficiaries of […]
How citizens and communities participate in energy initiatives is critical to the successful transition to a low-carbon economy. Meaningful participation in renewable and low-carbon energy initiatives is linked with enhanced citizen support. Community energy -- characterized by high levels of participation -- is also associated with wide ranging benefits for communities such as new social mechanisms for […]
During the on-going pandemic, humanity’s suffering has increased enormously. To date, 35 million people in the world have contracted the coronavirus, and more than 1 million have died. In the richest and most powerful country in the world, more than 7 million cases have been reported, with more than 200,000 deaths. While the more affluent […]