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Green College Spotlight: University of Calgary

Not all of North America’s sustainable colleges and universities are in the United States – far from it, in fact. Canada has quite a few of them, with the University of Calgary among the most impressive. This public university with over 24,000 students has made great strides toward inserting green values and practices into virtually [...]

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Prim Canadian City to Stop Dumping Poop into the Sea

The city of Victoria, British Columbia has been dumping raw sewage into the Puget Sound for years, much to the consternation of anti-poop-dumping activists who waged a campaign starring ‘Mr. Floatie’, a mascot who looks suspiciously like a relative of Mr. Hankey.
Well, Mr. Floatie’s hard work is finally being rewarded, as the city decided to [...]

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Canada Chooses to Kill Over 500 Narwhals Rather than Save Them

Once a year, Canada uses powerful icebreakers so hunters can gleefully kill thousands of baby seals and sell their downy white pelts. And yet, somehow those same icebreakers weren’t available when over 500 narwhals – whales with tusks resembling the horn of the fabled unicorn – became trapped under the ice. Instead of rescuing the [...]

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