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Some graduates are opting to work within resources companies to encourage sustainability, rather than working against them, reported Maclean\u2019s <\/em>in its Sept. 13 issue. Jos\u00e9 Etcheverry<\/strong>, who teaches in the Faculty of\u00a0Environmental Studies at York University, says his master\u2019s students often ask whether working at resource companies means working for the enemy. \u201cWhat I say to them is corporations that are doing wrong things are also doing very good things,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd those good things are emanating from people like them, inside of the system, trying to change the system.\u201d Read full story<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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