Saving the world with smaller feet

Tyler Nelson wants you to have less impact.

The St. James born and bred graduate of Red River College's Environmental Protection Technology course (2012) is fired up about people lowering the amount of waste they produce as well as the energy and resources they consume: their carbon footprints. Nelson says even as a child, protecting the environment was on his mind.

Continue reading at Red River College's Going Places blog

Building Red River College

I just snuck out for lunch the other day at the Paterson GlobalFoods Institute - Red River College's latest downtown campus and a testament to the stellar results Winnipeg can hit when institutions, governments and businesses do a proper restoration.

The two guys above? They made it happen. You can read the profiles of Glenn Garbett (Project Manager) and Chris Sousa (Site Supervisor) over at Red River College's Going Places blog.

You don't have a language

Photo: Ota Nda Yanaan

What would you say if you were told you didn't have a language? And more importantly, what would you do? If you're Rita Flamand, you write a dictionary.

I had a chance to chat with Rita about her life last month, then write this profile piece for Red River College's Going Places blog. But don't read it for my writing; read it for her story.