Laurier Sustainability Office
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Zero Waste Week seeks to educate students on decreasing refuse generation and increasing sustainability
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Monday, Mar. 4 signified the start of Laurier’s first ever Zero Waste Week, hosted by the Sustainability Office at Laurier, that will run until March 8. The week is full of events that hope to help decrease the waste that patrons of Laurier produce with a short-term blitz of activities that students and faculty can…
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Laurier student helps turn old mattress toppers into sustainable pet beds
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When Brooke Dietrich was hired at the Laurier Sustainability Office for a summer student position, her first task was to make use of 30 foam mattress toppers that could not be recycled from the university’s Move Out Program, and would have ended up in landfills. Dietrich reached out to many people associated with Laurier, but…
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EcoHawks FreeStore event is repurposing otherwise discarded items
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This O-week, the Laurier Sustainability Office and EcoHawks are teaming up for a FreeStore. The pop-up shop will be open for the entire first week of September 2018 and will offer free items to students and the community. While the pop-up shop is open at Laurier, it is open to the community, including schools like…
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Sustainability office funds six new projects
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Wilfrid Laurier University’s Sustainability Office is funding six new projects through the Sustainable Hawk Fund. The projects that applied to the fund are scored on requirements that meet the Sustainability Office factors, as well as contribute to reducing a negative environmental impact on Laurier’s various campuses. There are two application periods throughout the academic year…
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Laurier officially designates fair trade coffee in most cafés
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On Jan. 17, Wilfrid Laurier University received a fair trade campus designation from the Canadian Fair Trade Network and Fair Trade Canada. After over a year of changing products on shelves and filling out applications, the Sustainability Office and Food Services have made Wilfrid Laurier University the twentieth campus in Canada to be designated fair…
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Female comedic roles becoming more prominent in television
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Move over men, women might just be funnier than you. Female comedic leads in television are taking over and viewers seem to be pretty okay with it. Netflix and Hulu have recently been launching shows with hilarious women at the forefront. There seems to be a notion that guys can’t enjoy comedy performed by a…
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Laurier integrates sustainable projects on campus
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Wilfrid Laurier University unveiled a bike sharing station on its Waterloo campus on May 13, just one of numerous recent projects Laurier has recently launched in its bid to develop itself as an increasingly environmentally friendly institution. The station is part of the Community Access Bikeshare program, run by The Working Centre, and includes seven…
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