Last Wednesday, the Faculty of Arts launched it’s Arts Eco Action initiative with a tree planting ceremony to symbolize a new commitment to sustainability on campus. Students from a branch of this initiative, Nature in the City, helped to prepare the grounds for the new trees added in the Ryerson quad. EUS professor Andrew Millward spoke about his release of the customized tree app for the Ryerson campus, RyersonNC.ca, to keep track an monitor growth of our urban forest.
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- Robert Ozimek and Amber Grant taking out the tree
- Also planting a shrub in the Quad
- EUS student Amber Grant and geography professor Andrew Millward
- Dean of Faculty of Arts Jean-Paul Boudreau speaking about the new commitment to sustainability
- Dean of Faculty of Arts Jean-Paul Boudreau
- Dean of Faculty of Arts Jean-Paul Boudreau
- Jen Fischer, head of Eco Action Initiative
- Andrew Millward, goegraphy professor who worked to develop Nature in the City tree app
- Amber Grant, third-year EUS student and head of Nature in the City project
- Spectator checking out the new RyersonNC.ca app for Nature in the City
- Spectators checking out the new RyersonNC.ca app for Nature in the City
- President Sheldon Levy arrives to support the initiative
- Faculty of Arts Eco Action Initiative and EUS students and staff
Lindsay was the managing editor for print at The Ryersonian and was previously an intern with CBC-TV's the fifth estate, an investigative documentary program. She focused on digital journalism, advanced research methods and reporting. She is an environmental pragmatist, advocate for freedom of expression, freedom of information and euthanasia of urban raccoons.
Lindsay graduated from the Ryerson School of Journalism in 2015.