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What’s In Your Trash Infographic
Via: Bolt Insurance
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Planting Seeds
A fundamental problem that is preventing us from moving towards an environmentally sustainable society is the way we are cultivating a generation of young people who have no connection with the environment. Young people can, and many do, go an entire day without looking away from a screen; there is no wonder we are having trouble raising youth who are passionate about the environment. We live in a world where there is an ...
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2011 Ecological Action Conference
The Ecological Action Conference - 2011
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2010 Ecological Action Conference
In November 2010 the YENYR Ecological Action Conference (EAC) was held at the Markham Civic Centre. The conference is anually held by the Youth Environmental Network of York Region (YENYR), this was the third year. YENYR was founded in 2007 by Vino Jeyapalan, it is a group of students working to raise awareness of environmental issues among young people in York Region through local initiatives. The EAC is a one of the YENYR initiatives used ...
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How to Host the Greenest Olympics Ever
Original posted on good.is on July 20, 2011. Link to article here. It’s possible to dream up thousands of small ways to make a gigantic event like the Olympics more sustainable. A London-based group, for instance, asked architects to design a solar-powered information booth that would highlight recycled materials. The winner, announced this week, took its design from the Olympics’ iconic ring logo and used recycled steel. The second-place design involved floating balloons that ...
