Courtesy of the University of British Columbia – by Heather Amos UBC expert tips on making it through the merrymaking Maxine Crawford is a PhD student at UBC’s Okanagan campus who researches how nature impacts our wellbeing. “The holidays are a busy time of the year. We already have hectic lives, so holiday parties, gift-giving, [...]

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Courtesy of The University of British Columbia University of British Columbia researchers have invented a safe, efficient technology to wirelessly charge electric vehicles using “remote magnetic gears” – and successfully tested it on campus service vehicles. “Wireless charging has been a much sought-after technical solution for everything from cell phones to electric cars,” says UBC [...]

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Courtesy of UC Berkeley News Center By Sarah Yang Are gasoline-fueled cars or large diesel trucks the bigger source of secondary organic aerosol (SOA), a major component of smog? UC Berkeley researchers have stepped into this debate with a new study that says diesel exhaust contributes 15 times more than gas emissions per liter of [...]

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Courtesy of Tulane University Tulane University teams with Johnson & Wales University to unite doctors and chefs in improving the nation’s health. Tulane University School of Medicine and Johnson & Wales University announced a groundbreaking long-term collaboration that unites doctors and chefs in improving the nation’s health through the teaching of culinary medicine. For the [...]

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Dr. Laura Stachel went to Northern Nigeria in 2008, as part of her graduate study.  She wanted to find ways to lower maternal mortality in the state-run hospitals.  She was appalled by how electricity outages threatened maternity and surgical care. Nighttime deliveries were performed in near darkness and cesarean sections had to either be cancelled [...]

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A short unhappy life – The baby calf starts in a free range grazing environment until it is about 6 months old. It is then transported to a Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) where it will live the rest of its life – probably another 7 months. Here the steer will be fed a grain [...]

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Lately I have realized that I’m even more concerned than I was before. I am talking about our bodies – how to protect ourselves from harmful chemicals in the environment. Is this even still possible? My professor in the Global Conversation Course, points out that nothing can be dealt with in isolation, issues are interconnected. [...]

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I have recently developed a burning desire to get more in touch with the California terrestrial landscape and learn how to work with soil – in particular to grow organically and clean up food systems. To fulfill that desire, I spent time at the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center (OAEC) in the beginning of September [...]

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New York University’s Studio 20 is a master’s level, project based journalism course which integrates investigative reporting with new media. In collaboration with the independent, non-profit newsroom, ProPublica, a group of these NYU Studio students recently created a catchy music video to support ProPublica’s three-year investigation on hydraulic fracturing – “fracking” – and its potential [...]

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In the US, May is National Bike Month. Tweet

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