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As an Applied Plant Ecology student, I figured I would take the opportunity to talk about an innovative new application for plants that I had some recent hands-on experience with. These photos were taken while I was installing green roofs in Toronto a couple summers ago. The many benefits of green roofs include providing energyContinue reading “Urban Green Roofing”

Amid the current human driven biodiversity crisis and the emergence of SARS‑CoV‑2 (the virus causing COVID-19), the connections between zoonotic viruses and habitat loss have been brought into the public spotlight. However, the linkage between the two issues has already been public knowledge and warned about by ecologists for years (Gibb et al., 2020). SimplyContinue reading “Links Between Zoonotic Viruses, Biodiversity, and Habitat Loss”

Behold the ultimate COVID multiple choice test. Test your friends, test your grandma, test your university’s administration, test everyone… and vaccinate them too. How does COVID-19 spread? Airborne respiratory droplets from the nose or mouth of a COVID infected person Touching a COVID infected person Ingestion of COVID infected food Eating the yellow snow AccordingContinue reading “COVID-19 Science Literacy Test”

Rachel Carson is known as the mother of environmentalism, she was an acclaimed author, marine biologist and spent years inspiring the world to care for nature. She was born in 1907 and grew up in Pennsylvania. From a young age she held a passion for the natural world as she explored her family’s 64-acre propertyContinue reading “Rachel Carson”

One of the films that I considered nominating was Annihilation (2018). This science fiction horror was written by Alex Garland, and stars Natalie Portman and Oscar Isaac. I considered this film because I am an avid horror movie buff and I saw this assignment as a challenge to find horror films that directly relate toContinue reading “How the film Annihilation (2018) relates to Applied Plant Ecology”