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12.2 Clothing and Textiles: Materials
The fashion industry is increasingly profiting from our culture of overconsumption, however, there are many people who are beginning to acknowledge these issues that have encouraged slow fashion consumption and movements within the fashion industry. This includes where, and how a fibre or textile and sourced, how they are treated and who that affects along…
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3.15 Dealing with Climate: Regenerative Agriculture
Regenerative Agriculture is an approach to agricultural practices that acts holistically, by functioning like a natural ecosystem. By Mary-Elizabeth Chin
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7.15 Building Design: Retrofit vs New
What is better for the environment, retrofitting old structures or starting from scratch with new construction? This paper explores the issue of carbon emissions within buildings, which account for 30% of all carbon emissions in the world, and how to decarbonize structures both new and old. By Rennie Taylor
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3.8 Dealing with Climate: Carbon Offsets
The climate is changing, and tools such as carbon offsets are implemented to mediate the shared human impact on global warming and climate change. Carbon offsets are a way to balance personal carbon footprints and reduce greenhouse gases (GHGs) in the Earth’s atmosphere by funding or investing in environmental projects. By Juliene Bandayrel
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It’s A Climate Crisis
Students taking The Sustainable Design class at The Creative School at Toronto Metropolitan University come from a range of creative disciplines including Interior Design, Journalism, Fashion, and Environmental Studies. Lecturer Lloyd Alter assigned each student an aspect of the climate crisis, with the intent of creating a useful resource covering a wide range of topics.
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2.4 Climate change effects: Wildfires
Wildfires cause devastation; they destroy properties, natural resources, and threaten both humans and animal lives. Although wildfires are a natural and seasonal occurrence and have their evolutionary advantages; however, the disadvantages are growing and taking a toll on our earth. By Frederique de Raucourt
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3.9 Dealing With Climate: Decoupling
While economic growth persists as a presiding societal objective, its cyclical relationship with climate emissions has demonstrated that neither can be sustained without harmful environmental repercussions. Decoupling, a dissolution of the aforementioned relationship, has since been proposed as a means of establishing an economy capable of continual growth without inflicting further damage to the environment.…
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11.6 Diet: Environment and Urban Sustainability
In 2007, Architect Donald Chong developed a concept called, “Small Fridges Make Better Cities,” and it essentially proposed that if we could shop locally more often, use smaller fridges, and walk to the store instead of drive, it would open up our neighbourhoods to less traffic and more lively and connected communities. By Madeleine Jung-Grennan
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3.16 Dealing with Climate: Environmental Impacts of Pets
This paper uses cats and dogs as a way to show the environmental impact pets are having on the environment. By Logan Brown-DaSilva
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9.11 Transportation: Intercity Transport-Trains
Intercity rail are express passenger train services with fewer stops that cover longer distances compared to commuter trains with distances ranging from 50-1,000+ km, travelling at speeds up to 300 km/h, varying from country to country. By Laura Chan-Sing
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