THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.

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Tesla Roadster electric sports car
  • By March 7, 2011

    Obviously everyone can’t travel by bike or bus, and personal vehicles have become an integral part of the way people live in North America. The good news is that there is a viable alternative to the internal combustion engine: Electric cars.

  • USask ranks poorly in College Sustainability Report Card

    By November 24, 2010

    In a recent report that ranked 322 universities and colleges throughout the U.S. and Canada on sustainability, the University of Saskatchewan finished in the least sustainable third of all schools and tied for second worst sustainable school in Canada.

  • Bicycle Show and Shine tour concludes in Saskatoon

    By August 31, 2010

    Retire Your Ride celebrated its last stop on the Bicycle Show and Shine tour Aug. 28 at the Saskatoon Farmers’ Market. The tour, which travelled throughout rural and urban Saskatchewan, supported the federal government’s Retire Your Ride program to promote bicycle use and public transit in place of automobile use.

  • Farmers’ Market showcases first ever Local Foods Day

    By August 31, 2010

    On Saturday, Aug. 28, the Saskatoon Farmers’ Market hosted the first ever Local Foods Day. The goal of Local Foods Day is to ensure that the city commits to food security, which is each citizen’s right to safe, diverse, nutritional and locally grown food.

  • Is organic food better for you?

    By July 12, 2010

    Organic producers say their food tastes better, is more nutritious, and is better for the environment. But in an effort to be wary of salespeople’s pitches, I decided to get to the roots of claims about organic foods.

  • Browsers may go fair trade

    By April 6, 2010

    Browsers may start to look very different in the next year. Plans to change Browsers to a primarily fair trade coffee shop have been set in motion in recent weeks.

  • Roll up the rim to recycle

    By March 24, 2010

    Could all those Tim Hortons cups be converted into biofuel? Two University of Manitoba professors are looking for bacteria that can eat cellulose chains directly, breaking them into smaller sugars and eventually into hydrogen or ethanol.

  • Grad students push water conservation

    By March 24, 2010

    If the campus group Better than Bottled Water has its way, the sale of bottled water on campus could be on its way out.