Votes needed for MEB student's project to grow food in northern B.C.

Karen Mason-Bennett, an MEB student, hopes to use shipping containers, not these, to grow food. Her organization needs votes to win $100,000 for the project.

What would it take to produce fresh local food year-round in northern B.C.? A master’s of environment and business (MEB) student thinks she has the answer, and believe it or not, it involves old shipping containers. All she needs to make it happen are clicks.

In addition to being a student in the part-time, distance-based MEB program, Karen Mason-Bennett is program co-ordinator of the Northern Environmental Action Team (NEAT), a not-for-profit environmental organization in northeastern British Columbia. She used a paper she wrote for her environmental finance course as the basis for an entry to the Shell FuellingChange online competition. Her project, Green Freight, has now been selected as a finalist to win $100,000. Full story