Victoria Smith, a Royal Roads University graduate and Manager, Aboriginal & Sustainable Communities—Customer Care is a BC Hydro Corporate Supervisor for BC Hydro's Sustainable Communities Research Collaborative (“SCRC”) Program.
This program provides students with a corporate supervisor at BC Hydro and the opportunity to do their Master’s level project/thesis on real world projects.
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November 2010
Community News Archive
The international scientific community has identified five Grand Challenges that, if addressed in the next decade, will deliver knowledge to enable sustainable development, poverty eradication, and environmental protection in the face of global change.
The five Grand Challenges are:
1. Forecasting—Improve the usefulness of forecasts of future environmental conditions and their consequences for people.
2. Observing—Develop, enhance and integrate the observation systems needed to manage global and regional environmental change.
3. Confining—Determine how to anticipate, recognize, avoid and manage disruptive global environmental change.
4. Responding—Determine what institutional, economic and behavioural changes can enable effective steps toward global sustainability.
5. Innovating—Encourage innovation (coupled with sound mechanisms for evaluation) in developing technological, policy and social responses to achieve global sustainability.
For more information visit Earth System Visioning
Green Matters and Green Shops, two cutting-edge greenhouse gas reduction initiatives created by the City of Fredericton, received international recognition from the organization International Awards for Liveable Communities.
Green Matters, launched by the City in 2007 to encourage residents to make small but important changes to combat climate change, finished second to Porirua, New Zealand in the Socio-Economic Category with both cities earning gold awards for excellence.
Green Shops, launched in 2008 to encourage Fredericton businesses to reduce their environmental footprint, also received a gold award in the same category finishing fourth, just behind third-place winner Schwalm Eder-Kreis, Germany and ahead of Montreal, winner of a silver medal in fifth. There were 13 cities from around the world represented in the category.
The City of Fredericton was also a bronze medal winner in the Whole City Award category for its community and corporate commitment to sustainability, and a finalist in the Bursary Award category for its new Green Matters Certified program.
To find out more go to The International Awards for Liveable Communities
An interesting question that's for sure. However that's the conclusion of the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based organization that provides energy analysis to 28 industrialized nations.
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