Environmental Archives | Faculty of Engineering and Design

February 10, 2020

Meet the Boreal Builders

In the summer of 2019, the Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek – Gull Bay First Nation (KZA-GBFN) began harnessing and utilizing renewable energy with its Giizis Energy solar storage micro grid facility – a first of its... More

February 5, 2020

Piloting Unique Approach to Wildlife Conservation

The Morris Island Conservation Area is only about an hour’s drive west of Ottawa, but on a brilliant autumn morning, the city feels a world away. The 47-hectare mix of forested woodlands and wetlands is... More

January 29, 2020

Bracing for Impact

On July 14, 2004, Peterborough, ON endured record amounts of overnight rainfall, and by the following morning, a state of emergency was declared. It was the city’s second “100 year flood” in two years. According... More

December 20, 2019

Athletes Apply Skills to Engineering

Two gifted athletes, scholarship recipients, and first year engineering students have just completed their first semester at Carleton University. Their chosen paths are quite different, and yet the two young women share a few common... More

May 27, 2019

Climate Change Warriors

A dozen years ago, after a major oil deposit was discovered in western Ghana, the twin cities that are the region’s capital and largest urban centre started to grow rapidly. People flocked to Sekondi-Takoradi from... More

April 2, 2019

Women and Water

Earth’s surface is mostly water, but only a small fraction of that water is fresh, and most of that fraction is locked away in alpine glaciers, polar ice caps and remote lakes. Less than .007... More

September 11, 2018

Tiny House Opens Doors

December 19, 2017

Tiny House, Big Solutions

Under an overhang of Carleton University’s Architecture Building, an interdisciplinary team of fourth year engineering and design students are developing sustainable solutions from the ground up. Small in size but ambitious in scope, a unique... More