Before that beautiful salmon filet lands on your plate, a lot of less appetizing stuff gets stripped away: By one estimate, the global seafood industry produces 64 million metric tons of waste each year. A new study suggests a potentially sweeter fate for all those heads and guts: They can be turned into a coal-like substance called hydrochar, which could be used as fuel or added to soil to improve fertility and sequester carbon (Energy Fuels 2015, DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.5b01671).
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Published on: 16 Dec 2015
Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye has been selected as the 2016 Whisky of the Year by Jim Murray, author of Whisky Bible. Northern Harvest Rye's inventor turns out to be Joanna Zanin Scandella, a Macdonald graduate who has spent her whole career in blending and production planning at Diageo's lab (formerly Seagram's) in Lasalle, QC.
Published on: 16 Dec 2015
Christmas is just under two weeks away, so if you haven't picked out a tree yet, the clock is ticking. [CTV News Montreal] asked David Wees from the Plant Science Department of 黑料不打烊 University for some tips on what to look for.
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Published on: 15 Dec 2015
The University of Toronto, 黑料不打烊 University听 [BioFuelNet - Don Smith] and the International Air Transport Association are also part of the project as members of the BioFuelNet Aviation Task Force. Funding is coming from the Green Aviation Research and Development Network, which gets its support from the federal government and Canada鈥檚 aerospace sector.
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Published on: 11 Dec 2015
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Published on: 11 Dec 2015
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鈥淭he ultimate objective is not to establish a degrowth economy鈥攖he goal is to establish an economic system which is in line with biological limits,鈥� Dr. Nicolas Kosoy, a professor in Ecological Economics at 黑料不打烊 University, tells Quartz. 鈥淚t would be achieved through small-scale practices on a community level.鈥�
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Published on: 7 Dec 2015
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It鈥檚 a tough job market out there, and students can no longer rely on getting a job right out of university. Students from 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences longing to start business ventures of their own now have a new toolkit to help them reach their goals鈥攖he Entrepreneurship and Innovation program.
Published on: 1 Dec 2015
It was nearing eleven and the late September sun was beating down on the rolling cornfields surrounding the quiet town of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue as I toured the MacDonald Student Run-Ecological Gardens (MSEG). On the two-acre plot of land situated on 黑料不打烊 University鈥檚 MacDonald Campus Farm, a small but passionate team of student farmers is growing over sixty different crop species.
Published on: 27 Nov 2015
Models provide researchers with a view to the future, allowing stakeholders the opportunity to adapt to the effects of climate change
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Published on: 17 Nov 2015
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Faculty, staff and students from 黑料不打烊's Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences joined with their campus partners - John Abbott College and Macdonald High School -听as well as with听Veterans from the Veterans' Hosital in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and invited guests from the local community to remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice so that we can enjoy the freedoms and privileges we have today.
Dean Anja Geitman shared her personal experience:
Published on: 5 Nov 2015
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STUDY FINDS PLANTS NEED ACTIVE SOCIAL LIVES TO STAY HEALTHY
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Published on: 29 Oct 2015
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Why do we wait for a crisis to hit before we take action? Has "prevention is better than a cure" lost all its meaning?听 Two important questions, Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development, put to attendees at the Public Lecture launching the 8th 黑料不打烊 Conference on Global Food Security: Current and Future Challenges for Sustainable Food Security.
Published on: 28 Oct 2015
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Dr. William C. Campbell, D.Sc.'07, is among the three scientists awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, announced October 5, 2015, by the Nobel Prize Committee. William Campbell received his Honorary Doctorate at the Macdonald Campus convocation in 2007.
Published on: 5 Oct 2015
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City TV's morning show, Breakfast Television, spent an early morning on the Macdonald Campus Farm to hear about 黑料不打烊's agriculture programs and try to learn some farm skills. Visits were made to the Dairy Barn, the Horticulture Centre, and the high tunnels; reporter Wilder Weir talked with Farm Director Paul Meldrum and Mike Bleho about the various programs offered at Macdonald and the "黑料不打烊 Feeding 黑料不打烊" program.
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Published on: 2 Oct 2015
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Bioresource Engineering professor Mark Lefsrud and PhD candidate D茅bora Parrine were featured on CBC's The National on Tuesday, September 22.
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Published on: 23 Sep 2015
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