School
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I’m back in India.
That’s right, again. A couple months ago I got recruited by a couple classmates to spend the last module of my master’s program in Ahmedabad to help run a pilot of social enterprise they had been working on. I arrived on Monday morning and will be here until mid-August, from which point I will have…
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Environment geeks unite!
I have just returned to Ottawa from Madison, Wisconsin by way of Toronto, Buffalo , Chicago and Milwaukee to present another version of my research on hope and faith in environmentalism at the first meeting of the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS) as well as to a group of keeners at the Madison…
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Baha’i Geeks and Environmentalists Unite!
In the past 48 hours, I have traveled by bike, hybrid car, regular car, greyhound, subway, train, taxi and foot to get from Tatamagouche, through Amherst, Sackville, Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Montreal (again) and New York City to arrive in Washington, D.C. and attend, speak, blog and mingle at the joint 33rd Annual Association for Baha’i…
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A last night of firsts
Between the ages of 14 and 17, staying up all night and into the next day was my idea of a great time. Me and my best friend Seamus McGrath would even boast about it to each other and to other friends. “So, how much sleep did you get last night? Oh me? Hmmm, let…
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Merry GIS Day!
Yes, it’s that time of the year again, people. Right in the middle of Geography Awareness Week geographers the world over are gathering with their professors and students to ring in what is for us Diwali, Songrkran and Naw Ruz all rolled up into one. This GIS Day (Geographical Information Systems), I will be learning…
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The Low Carbon Diet Calculator, ‘Abdu’l-Baha and Meat
The great thing about studying ecology is that in every class and lecture everything we look at is relevant and important to our daily lives. I know the anthropologists, sociologists and maybe even the engineers will say the same thing, but I have the bias that ecologists and geographers are the ones that are looking…
Samuel Benoit 