Value Shift it's time, folks.
Value Shift: It’s alive!
For the purposes of clarifying the why behind Value Shift, for you and for myself, I’ll devote this very first blog post to further developing the letter of intent I laid out in the ‘About‘ section. During my career at McGill–more specifically after reading a paper on population growth and pending environmental disaster–I was moved [...]
Campus sustainability: a culture in the making
If you’ve got other plans on Thursday, cancel them. In November 2009, McGill University students brought to life the Sustainability Projects Fund (SPF) and today it brings so much more to student life than simply financial resources. The SPF’s mission is to build a culture of sustainability on campus by funding student-inspired sustainability initiatives. The [...]
Solar Ships and the future of transportation in remote areas
A year ago if you had asked me what post-graduation plans I had in the works, I could have only told you what I hoped for: to be employed at an organization addressing deep-rooted social or environmental issues (ideally both). During my last semester at McGill I channeled my concern for poverty and the environment [...]
On the issue of scale
In recent years, issues of poverty and environmental sustainability have gained widespread attention in the global arena, as evidenced by the UN Summit that listed these, among others, as Millennium Development Goals. It’s been argued that our complex socioeconomic system—which has historically required the burning of fossil fuels, wide-scale deforestation and land cover change, and [...]