sustainability
SFU strives to become a silver fair trade campus
October 3, 2017SFU is striving to be the first Canadian university to become a silver fair trade campus. This summer, the Canadian Fair Trade Network released updated standards for its Fair Trade Campus Program which added new requirements for the silver and gold tiers in fair trade membership. Most of the new requirements involved in obtaining a silver fair trade status focus on ethically-sourced product availability. To meet silver fair trade requirements, SFU will need to ensure all coffee and tea offered by the university or student unions on campus is fair trade-certified, and that there is at least one fair trade-certified…
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Shrum chemistry building achieves first sustainability gold rating on campus
September 13, 2017By: Gabrielle McLaren The Shrum chemistry building on SFU’s Burnaby campus was recently granted a gold rating in sustainability, making it one of the most energy efficient buildings on the Burnaby campus. The 50-year-old building went through intensive renovations which…
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How Green is SFU?
June 5, 2017By: Elise Burgert SFU has a reputation as a ‘green’ school, priding itself on its sustainability initiatives and goals. As someone studying sustainable business, I wanted to find out if SFU’s actions back up this claim. While there seems to…
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SFU researchers take greenhouses to the next level
May 30, 2017SFU engineering professor Majid Bahrami, along with his research collaborators at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU), were recently awarded a $725,000 grant to take sustainable technologies to the next level. The grant was awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council…
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Build SFU’s construction plans lack clarity on sustainability
January 6, 2015[embed]http://youtu.be/ZAu5dNbi1Lo[/embed] Watch the SFSS Town Hall meeting, November 27, 2014: (The time stamps refer to this recording of the SFSS Town Hall meeting) ____________________________ At the SFSS Town Hall of November 27, 2014, the board of directors and Build SFU…
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