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As we come to the end of Black History Month (BHM) celebration, Tracelyn Cornelius, Sustainability Management graduate scholar in the School of Environment, Enterprise, and Development (SEED) shares her experience and thoughts on anti-racism, equity, diversity, and inclusion implementation, program design and best practices.

Researchers have found the recent success of Canadian cannabis tourism has both normalized a formerly “deviant” leisure activity and opened the door to other potentially lucrative forms of cannabis-related tourism, such as complete growing, consuming and experiencing tours.

Team of four Waterloo undergraduate students have won the total prize of $11,500 in the 8^th edition of the annual Ryerson Real Estate Expand Your Empire (EYE) 2022 case competition. The team took home the First Place Grand Prize of $10,000 and the Most Feasible Design award of $1,500 in the competition.

Flooding has pushed down housing prices in communities across Canada. New findings show that over the past eight years, catastrophic flooding in communities resulted in an average 8.2 per cent reduction in the final sale price of houses, 44.3 per cent reduction in the number of houses listed for sale, and 19.8 per cent more days on the market to sell a house.

Kris Kolenc is a 2016 graduate of Environment and Business at the Faculty of Environment. His work focuses on net-zero carbon, climate risk, energy, water, waste, green leasing, ESG reporting, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He received a Corporate Knights Top 30 Under 30 Sustainability Leader Award in November 2021.

A new study found that measuring the time it takes for a radar pulse to travel from a satellite to the sea surface and back again can reveal the thickness of river ice and dates when it is safe to travel on ice roads and bridges in arctic regions.

City living has been radically changed by the spread of COVID-19. But planners of downtowns in mid-sized areas are more interested in returning those spaces to the way things were.

We are proud to celebrate the Black History Month this February, 2022, as we continue to reflect on our journey, history, events and actions that have shaped our collective experiences.

The University of Waterloo is launching a student competition that seeks net-zero energy and carbon-neutral performance designs for a sustainable flight school of the future.