Energy Efficiency Policy
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Avoiding catastrophic climate change was never going to be easy, and every year that passes makes the challenge a little more daunting.

Achieving greater energy efficiency is one piece of a complicated puzzle, but real reductions in greenhouse gas emissions will take a lot more than individuals buying low-energy light bulbs. People and businesses will need to make all sorts of choices to make our homes, commerce, industry and transportation systems more efficient.

And sometimes people will need a little nudge to make the right choice.

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Digital Media Lab
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It didn’t take long for mobile devices to become common place in our daily lives. The first iPhone launched in 2007, and in the decade that followed, mobile devices were integrated in to virtually every aspect of our lives.  

Today, our phones are a virtual appendage that we rarely leave the house without. According to Dr. Joshua Synenko, assistant professor of Cultural Studies and coordinator of the Media Studies program at Trent, we ought to be giving more consideration to what these machines are and how they affect us.



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Dual Master's program with Université Catholique Louvain

The French have taken to the streets, and the British are taking to the exits.

The great dream of a unified Europe has endured from the time of Charlemagne to the era of Macron, May and Merkel.  But that dream’s current iteration, the European Union (EU), is looking awfully shaky these days.

“The EU is in a state of great uncertainty,” says Jeff Sahadeo, director of EURUS, Carleton’s Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies.

“Populism is threatening the foundations of politics and society."

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On-campus archaeological field school


​When the lumber trade was booming in Ontario, Peterborough was a boomtown.
In the 19th century, sawmills on what would become the Trent University campus processed timber for international markets. When the lumber market collapsed those mills shut down. One was disassembled and moved, another was even sold as lumber. 

The construction of a power station in the early 20th Century destroyed much of what was left of the saw mill foundations, and today there are few obvious signs that the land that is now Trent’s Symons Campus was ever a hub of industry. But look beneath the surface at the former mill site, and there’s a rich record of 19th century industrial life. 


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Graduate co-op placements 


​Without experience, you can’t get the job. Without the job, you can’t get the experience.

It’s the new graduate’s paradox, and the implications of this classic Catch 22 are only amplified when you’re looking for a job in government. Hiring processes often demand specific types of experience that are impossible to obtain in the private sector.

Alex Russell was intrigued by the Canada Health Act during his undergrad years, but ended up working at a bank. It wasn’t the experience he needed to get the job he wanted. Job postings demanded skills like processing Access to Information and Privacy claims and drafting ministerial briefing notes.  You just don’t get that kind of experience at TD.

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Hatch program fosters entrepreneurship


​We live in an age of big ideas.
But how exactly do you transform a great concept into the next global business empire, or at least the next thriving side hustle?

Every entrepreneur defines success differently, but all of them face similar challenges to achieving it.

Carleton’s Hatch Program helps students prepare themselves to rise to the occasion. The student-led program works with budding entrepreneurs to develop their business plans and connects them with investors, partners and a community of like-minded peers.




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