Living with climate change: Mapping community experience and adaptation
Rasna Sherchan, a Master of Environment and Business student, was recently invited to present her independent research work at the Symposium on Sustainability & Human Rights hosted by Fulbright Canada and Concordia University in Montreal.
About 50 people from the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development rubbed elbows at a Meet-and-Greet held on campus recently. It was a rare chance for students, faculty and staff from across the department to leave their roles behind and get to know each other on a more personal level.
SEED Student Profile: Kevin Rotsaert
Students at the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development are both enterprising and empathetic, qualities we like to encourage here. Whether the class is about social entrepreneurship or ecological economics, the lesson at the end is that success can't be measured in dollars.
Master of Development Practice students presented at an international forum held in Ottawa earlier this month, organized by the World University Service of Canada (WUSC) and Montreal-based Centre for International Studies and Cooperation (CECI).
A team of students from SEED's Environment and Business program has joined efforts with musician Jack Johnson to research and further develop All At Once, Johnson’s community-based, social action network.
Local Economic Development alum Konstantinos Karanasios was recently awarded with an Energy Council of Canada Energy Policy Research Fellowship, valued at $25,000. The award provides financial assistance for him to work on the EcoEnergy Innovation Initiative II project "Development of a utility grade controller for remote microgrids with high penetration renewable energy generation".
Nafis Karim, an International Development student in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development highlights his research on the zero-waste agricultural model that is being implemented in Ba Vi, and Ha Noi in Vietnam.
This research is part of an initiative called the Sustainable Product Implementation Project (SPIN), which has received significant funding to explore the feasibility of sustainable products in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.
The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development's International Development program has partnered with St. Paul's College and WUSC’s Students Without Borders® to provide students with a unique learning experience through their undergraduate program.
Students in the program work with WUSC’s overseas partners for 8 months during their fourth year of studies to gain comprehensive, international development experience while contributing to sustainable development.
Did you know our program director and field placement coordinator are on twitter? You can follow both Larry Swatuk and Grainne Ryder as they travel the world, interact with students and comment on the latest news and issues in global development, all in 140 characters or less!