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November 2013
WSIC about Infrastructure Resiliency in a Warming Climate?
As major weather events become more common, Canada will have to evaluate how resilient its infrastructure is for the near future. Chris Fonseca and Abe Khademi looks at needs and strategies to get ready.
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Canada’s Future as an Arctic Nation
WSIC is pleased to host professor Franklyn Griffiths of the University of Toronto to lead our discussion on the topic of “Canada’s Future as an Arctic Nation”.
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Recovering Energy From Waste: An Environmental Dilemma
As cities grow and demands on our time increase, invariably, we opt for convenience when available. This usually means an increase in single use disposable items such as prepared food containers, packaged chemical cleaning solutions and other such functional products. Most of our materials truthfully can’t be recycled and without a doubt, a great deal ends up in the great Pacific garbage patch as shipping containers fall off ships with our plastic “recycling” bound for China. Many countries in the world have already…
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