By Saidia Green
If you search the Students’ Union website and constitution, you are likely to come across little that addresses environmental issues. There is no Environmental Coordination Office of Students as at the University of Alberta, there is no UCGreen as at MacMaster University, nor is there an environmental office under one of our vice presidents, as… Continue reading The SUs new leaf greener
By Saidia Green
March 22 was World Water Day, and in case you missed out on the fun, it’s not too late to be aware of water issues. It is fitting that we are concerned with water issues every day, since we require water on a daily basis to survive. The theme of this year’s World Water Day… Continue reading New World Water
By Saidia Green
For me, the only tolerable part of the morning is a strong organic coffee and a chemical-free breakfast to match it. Sadly, I attend the U of C, which means most of that desire goes unfulfilled if I try to achieve it on campus. Organic food is grown using farming practices that do not use… Continue reading Hold the chemicals, double the organic
By Saidia Green
Can the environment help a candidate win a federal election? The environment has repeatedly been cited as one of the most important issues to Canadians, especially to young Canadians. It’s inevitable that each party will address this issue in some way, at least during the campaign season, but which ones are simply memorizing facts for… Continue reading The environment needs your vote
By Saidia Green
Imagine yourself thousands of kilometers from Calgary, in the northeastern part of China, looking over a petrochemical plant in Jilin. The plant has just experienced a catastrophic explosion and chemicals are beginning to spill into a neighbouring river, the Songhua. The spill contains the cancer-causing chemical benzene and it keeps flowing uncontrollably until there are… Continue reading Wake up and smell the carcinogens
By Saidia Green
On November 1st, two devel-opment studies students, Jenn Marshall and Eric Shorten, attempted to conduct a survey in MacEwan Student Center as part of a project for their GNST 500 class. Their project is a multi-faceted attempt to get all coffee providers on campus to offer at least one variety of fair trade product so… Continue reading Fascism holds sway in foodcourt
By Saidia Green
The rapid influx of natural disasters over the past several weeks has begun to spread whispers about the end of the world–and even if you don’t buy into that fundamentalist the-end-is-near-crap, perhaps you’ve thought about it. Those ideas may seem to tie us into a higher power and spread hopeful feelings that we’re more important… Continue reading Global warming is everyone’s fault
By Saidia Green
Last week city council voted in favour of establishing a full curbside recycling program for our city within the next three years. Strangely, many Calgarians are in an uproar over the decision, mostly over the price tag attached to the program: $30 million to start it up, and once it’s running it’ll be $15 a… Continue reading Save the world for nine bucks
By Saidia Green
It may be difficult to tell the difference at first, but unless you were living under a comfortable rock during the past year, it was impossible not to notice a shift in attention on campus towards all things environmental, sustainable and generally green-coloured during the 2004-05 academic year. Last year administration finally woke up and… Continue reading Save a tree, pay your tuition