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The funeral industry has a considerable ecological impact from land requirements for burials to the CO2 released from cremations. In the face of such problems it is perhaps unsurprising that more people are now open to exploring more sustainable forms of "death care" — services for burying and cremating the dead.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Rumina Dhalla from the University of Guelph and Stephanie M. Villers from the University of Waterloo explore the development of sustainable death care practices ranging from "human composting" to "water cremation" and argue that sustainable death care "is becoming a sought-after option, and its providers are quickly becoming a presence and a viable competitor in this industry."
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Natural organic reduction, or human composting, is a process that turns human remains into soil.
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Rumina Dhalla, University of Guelph; Stephanie M Villers, University of Waterloo
There is growing interest in sustainable death care options like human composting as an alternative to energy-intensive cremation and chemical-dependent and land-intensive burial.
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Some Canadian civil servants are quitting due to the inability to work in their language of choice. This could affect the quality of governance in Canada.
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Christopher A. Cooper, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The inability of some federal public servants to use their official language of choice at work is pushing them to ponder leaving their jobs for something else within the public service or quitting entirely.
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There have been growing calls for more corporate disclosure and accountability in the face of income inequality, governance failures and the mismanagement of natural resources.
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Douglas A. Stuart, University of Victoria; Irene Marie Herremans, University of Calgary
Many firms now report how they are doing along economic, environmental and social lines in what is called a sustainability report. But how effective are they, really?
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A composite image showing the distribution of dark matter, galaxies and hot gas in the core of a merging galaxy cluster.
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Rajendra Gupta, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
Cosmology does not need dark matter or dark energy in an expanding universe that allows the constants of nature to evolve, and light loses energy as it travels vast distances.
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Some teachers are exploring ways to hold space for complex climate emotions.
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Nathalie Reid, University of Regina; Audrey Aamodt, University of Regina; Jennifer MacDonald, University of Regina
Providing teachers with professional development about trauma-sensitive climate change education would help them support students’ experiences of climate change.
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Un nombre croissant d’emplois requièrent désormais des compétences numériques.
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Benoit A. Aubert, HEC Montréal; Simon Bourdeau, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM); Thierry Warin, HEC Montréal
La vaste majorité des emplois requièrent désormais des compétences numériques, d’où l’importance d’ajouter ces compétences à celles traditionnellement considérées en éducation.
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Arts
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Pragya Agarwal, Loughborough University
Carmen’s emotions often get the best of him while the women around him are left to keep things going.
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Business + Economy
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Alper Kara, Brunel University London
Around 400,000 UK households are set to experience increases of 50% or more in their mortgage payments.
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Politics
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Richard Hargy, Queen's University Belfast
U.S. vice president Kamala Harris is in the political spotlight as calls on Biden to drop out of the presidential race intensify.
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