Boozhoo, sekon, tansi, greetings. The Centre for Aboriginal Student Services (CASS) will be in Vari Hall Monday with a table providing samples of three sisters soup and bannock bread, as a way to promote awareness of Indigenous peoples and of the upcoming National Aboriginal Day – June 21. CASS will hand out samples in Vari […]
Two upcoming events hosted by the United Way York Region have a special connection to York University's Knowledge Mobilization Unit. The first is a community forum tomorrow, Nov. 9 to discuss food policy and the development of a food charter for York Region. The second event on Tuesday, Nov. 29, features a community dialogue on pressing social issues facing the region. […]
The Three-spot Mariposa Lily is an understated three-petalled white and yellow flower indigenous to some areas of the Columbia Basin. Like all living things, it’s part of the intricate and complex web of life that sustains us all, wrote B.C.’s Revelstoke Times Review, April 12: Recent research by biologist Lincoln Best, [a graduate student] at […]
Organic farms can be more energy efficient than conventional farms that mass produce crops using unsustainable practices, a surprising result from a study co-authored by a York University professor. Researchers analyzed 130 studies to compare the energy use and global warming potential of organic versus conventional farming. They concluded that organic farms were more energy […]
Groups of women taking up collective farming in the state under Kudumbasree caught the imagination of Ananya Mukherjee-Reed, professor of political science and development studies at York University in Toronto [Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies], wrote India’s The Hindu March 11: It is by far the best method to ensure food security, especially […]
On June 21, Laurence Packer of York’s Faculty of Science & Engineering will discuss what has become a crisis in agriculture – the rapid disappearance of bees, wrote InsideHalton.com June 17: Packer will present findings outlined in his new book Keeping the Bees, which grew out of the Canadian pollination research initiative spearheaded by the […]
Four students from York’s Faculty of Graduate Studies have won Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships for research on everything from protecting vulnerable women to finding alternatives to the global takeover of organic agriculture. This is only the second year the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships have been awarded. “We are delighted with the results of the Vanier […]