Environment
Major in a minute: Joint major in business and environment
October 26, 2018Written by: Elise Burgert Do you find school boring? Facts mundane? The truth . . . too simple? If so, apply to one of the Oxymoronic Joint Majors offered by SFU! As a student in my last year of a business and environment Joint Major, I cannot quite describe just how fun it is. What is an Oxymoronic Joint Major? To take a joint major, you complete half of one major and half of another, and then take whichever of the two degrees gives you fancier letters to put behind your name. The programs do not need to make sense…
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Sustainability-focused student-led program launches on SFU Burnaby campus
October 23, 2018Written by: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor A group of SFU students are working to make SFU more sustainable through a new program called TumblerShare. TumblerShare is a student-led sustainability program at SFU’s Burnaby campus, encouraging students and staff…
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Keeping it slow and stable in the animal world
September 16, 2018Written by: Amneet Mann, News Editor and Agnetha de Sa, Peak Associate Animals are slow to catch on SFU researchers have published a study investigating and comparing the delays of animal reflexes between small and large animals. The study, published in…
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Hundreds of international scientists call for urgent action to protect B.C’s rainforests
July 18, 2018By: Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor On June 28, 223 international scientists called on the British Columbia government to stop the incessant logging of temperate rainforests in the province. The scientists addressed their concerns in a letter titled “International…
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Adulthood 101: Become a lean, mean, green-living machine
July 16, 2018By: Gabrielle McLaren, Features Editor In mid-May, the city of Vancouver announced that, by June 1, 2019, it will ban plastic straws and white styrofoam cups and containers. This is the first ban of its kind in Canada. Though we…
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Environmental impacts — in the past and now
July 2, 2018Written by: Trevor Steele, Peak Associate Agriculture’s impact on earth’s environment UBC researchers, in collaboration with researchers from a number of universities including SFU, have revealed the significance of agriculture's effect on Earth’s environment in a new study published in…
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SFU to begin new Sustainable Energy Engineering program in fall 2019
June 20, 2018By Srijani Datta, Assistant News Editor On June 5, SFU’s new Sustainable Energy Engineering (SEE) program was approved by the B.C ministry to be hosted in a new building being constructed at SFU's Surrey campus. The provincial ministry has…
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BC moves to block Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, provinces square off
February 12, 2018British Columbia moved to block the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion through the announcement of its new plan to limit any diluted bitumen, or dilbit, from entering the province via the pipeline. The announcement prompted a domestic trade war…
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SFU grants sustainable certification to campus offices
June 12, 2017A selection of SFU offices have now been sustainability-certified thanks to a new initiative by the university to push the community towards sustainability goals. The Sustainability Office came out with the initiative that allows the university community to certify offices,…
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My journey towards waste reduction
June 3, 2016This is the first article in a three-part series about Kendra’s journey through waste reduction. You see that? That Mason jar filled with garbage right there, boys and girls, is Lauren Singer’s garbage — after not one day, not…
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