Beyond the City Wall Building Sustainable Cities on an Interconnected Planet

Thursday, April 9, 2020 10:00

Live via ZOOM./macdonaldCategory: Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dept. of Bioresource Engineering Macdonald Campus

Beyond the City Wall: Building Sustainable Cities on an Interconnected Planet

Monday, March 23, 2020 10:00

The Department of Bioresource Engineering invites you to a special seminar by Benjamin Goldstein, PhD, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne...

Urban Agriculture: Prospects and Challenges for Future Food Production in Controlled Environments

Friday, March 13, 2020 10:00

The Department of Bioresource Engineering invites you to a special seminar by Md Shamim Ahamed, Ph.D., EIT, Nortek Air Solutions, Saskatoon, SK21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de Bellevue, QC, H9X 3V9...

Sustainable Energy, Water, and Nutrient Systems for Controlled Plant Environments

Monday, March 9, 2020 10:00

Special Bioresource Engineering seminar with Jonathan Maisonneuve, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oakland University. Everyone is welcome to attend.21111 Lakeshore Road, St Anne de...

Urban agriculture gets boost in efforts to grow farming sector

Published: 6 September 2019

Urban agriculture is getting a $750,000 boost from the province and from Montreal to help develop the farming sector....

Urban or rural: Where to build a greenhouse

Published: 21 August 2019

'You need political will, and it takes time' – urban greenhouses could benefit from more direct support from governments, experts say....

Les beaux défis de l’agriculture urbaine

Published: 11 October 2018

Chaque année, à la rentrée scolaire, David Wees propose un petit défi à ses étudiants inscrits au cours d’agriculture urbaine de l’Université McGill : calculer dans quelle mesure les terres...

Can Urban Agriculture Feed the World's Growing Cities?

Published: 25 July 2014

Living in a city puts everything at your fingertips: From fashion and movies to social movements and political experiments, residents of urban areas experience most everything before it trickles...

City-grown vegetables could feed urban dwellers

Published: 25 July 2014

In a number of cities around the world, residents have transformed previously derelict sites, ignored corners and over-grown verges into green and productive vegetable plots...

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