Sustainability office at Laurier
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Laurier’s Sustainability Office partners with community leaders in tree-planting initiative
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The Sustainability Office, with support from Sustainable Waterloo Region and the Laurier Renewable Energy student club, has arranged to plant two micro forests in Waterloo. “A micro forest is a highly, densely planted area that is planted to re-naturalize in spaces that have formerly been deforested for urban development,” Tova Davidson, executive director at Sustainable…
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Suck it Up: Laurier’s Sustainable take on straws and plastics
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“I’m sure you’ve seen the video of the sea turtle that gets a straw stuck in its nose and it’s just so sad.” Jenna Steadman, a recent Laurier graduate who convocated in June, explained to me her reasoning for cutting plastic straws out of her life. Like most of us who have ditched the old…
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A run down of fun flicks to see this summer
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With the summer rolling in full force and the obvious choices of summer blockbusters already passing through theatres, what movies do we have to look forward to? This summer in particular seems to be the summer of sequels, including Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, The Incredibles 2, The First Purge, Equalizer 2 and Unfriended: Dark…
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