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Slow Food Story
In an age of cheap thrills, many have found solace in celebrating traditional and regional ways of growing and preparing food. This documentary is an intimate portrait of the man behind the slow food...
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Share Now: Your How-to Guide to Getting More and Wasting Less
Sharing is aboutmaximizing the use of products, services and ideas in order to minimize overall consumption by a community. This principle has a surprising number of applications – people can and do...
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Fully Destructible
In his book, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Bernard Suits defines the act of playing games as “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” It’s easy to dismiss playing games as...
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Skills for the New Economy: Creating an Artisanal Life as an Eco-Polymath
Structural changes in the labour market since the economic downturn of 2008 have resulted in a work reality that society is grappling to define.read more
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The Genius of the Generalist
Predicting the best career options for the next four years, or the next 20, seems next to impossible these days. Today’s postsecondary students are overwhelmed with choice, anxiety and the worst job...
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Editorial: New Problem Solvers
It’s that time of year again when the hurly-burly of coursework emanates from campuses across the country. It is autumn, a time when universities and colleges get back to the business of education, and...
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A\J's 2014 Environmental Education Guide
As Natasha Milijasevic writes in “The Genius of the Generalist,” a multidisciplinary education was once essential to participation in public life. People with a wide-ranging education had a variety of...
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Mythmaking: The Movement Needs Muses
Read part one of Natasha Milijasevic's series about how an environmental education creates "eco-polymaths" equipped with the skills needed for today's economy, Creating an Artisanal Life as an...
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Academic Evolution: Innovation Knows No Boundaries
This is part three of our Skills for the New Economy series.read more
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The Master and his Workshop
This is part four of our Skills for the New Economy series. Read part one: "Creating an Artisanal Life as an Eco-Polymath."read more
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Greening Supply Chain Management
This is part five of our Skills for the New Economy series. Start with part one: "Creating an Artisanal Life as an Eco-Polymath."read more
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Pop-Up Park Rangers
THERE’S A PARK that stretches through the heart of downtown Toronto’s west side from the Lake Ontario shoreline to the congested corner of Bloor and Bathurst streets. You can’t really see it from that...
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Canadian COLLEGES may have started as a community-based educational alternative in the 1960s, but they have truly come into their own as a career-building foundation for many young Canadian...
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TECHNICALLY, only plants can be weeds. But plenty of other organisms are similarly vigorous, adaptive to circumstances and resilient in the face of discouragement. They, or rather we, are metaphorical...
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The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week!
Each week, A\J staffers will be sharing our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we've been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this...
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AUDIO: Preserved Great White Shark Travels by Bus to Inspire Australians
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The Environment Student’s Playbook
Every year, thousands of Canadians decide that when they go to work, their job should somehow help the planet. For many, starting environmental careers means enrolling at colleges or universities to...
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The Last Class
There is nomaster plan for how your post-secondary education should look. Go to university, go to college, go to college before university, do both. Get a master’s and a PhD. Take six years to finish...
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Conflict
Our grade 10 English teacher claimed that all literature is about conflict – within the person, among people, or between humans and nature. She then assigned us to put each of our readings into one or...
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'I don't know' is no excuse
Why vote? A simple question launched University of Waterloo student, Mavis Chan to set out changing the apathetic attitude carried by her peers. Taking advantage of the entrepreneurial co-op program at...
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