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Food and Fiction: Literature and Creative Writing as Food Pedagogy
(2015)
Writing about food has proliferated in the last few years and in many ways has been responsible for propelling the food movement, which can be broadly defined as the movement against alienating corporate industrial ...
Product Design through a Systemic Lens of Ecological Economics
(2017)
Products, tangible artefacts created through a process and intended for delivery to an end-user (Boundless, 2017), have been a primary method in addressing the needs and wants of people, making product designers a crucial ...
Poaching and Human-elephant Conflict: A Destructive Duo. How Poaching May Alter Male Elephant Society and Indirectly Influence Human-elephant Conflict
(2017)
The uncertain future of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) is currently a popular issue in conservation circles, largely due to the ongoing poaching crisis. Compounding the threat of illegal offtake are the added ...
Broadening the 'World Crops' Discourse: Exploring Ecological and Cultural Gaps in 'World Crops' Research for the Greater Toronto Area
(2016)
The goal of this paper is to broaden the current ‘world crops’ discourse by exploring two gaps within existing research. In this context, world crops refer to crops that have not historically been a major part of Ontario’s ...
Evaluation of Ontario's Cap and Trade Regulation
(2016)
Using an interdisciplinary framework, this paper evaluates the effectiveness of Ontario's cap and trade regulation to achieve sustained emission reductions. This framework is shaped by six evaluation criteria to assess the ...
Supporting Domestic Energy Conservation in Ontario through Direct Feedback
(2017)
Outside of financial incentives, there is a lack of tools for Ontario households to effectively conserve energy. The traditional and most commonly used policy tools, money and information, are not enough on their own to ...
Community Energy Financing. Assessing Challenges and Opportunities in Ontario.
(2017)
A well-established financing regime is critical to the development and growth of Ontario?s community energy sector. While a number of crucial policy initiatives have been undertaken at both the federal and provincial levels ...
Affordability, Transit, And Housing: A Case Study Of Vivanext On Yonge Street In Richmond Hill And Newmarket
(2016)
The GTA has experienced population growth in the past decade, and the majority of this growth is attributed to immigration. As municipalities push for more sustainable ways to travel, it is crucial that it is done in a ...
Geriatric Natural Herbalism in a Toronto Seniors' Community: A feasibility study of social enterprise through green living and agro-ecological herbal plant production and distribution
(2018)
This research paper describes a feasibility study of a possible business model to be supported by Canadian civil society organizations (CSO), Canadian social enterprises, seniors’ facility centers and alternative food ...