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Liam Ragan

Liam Ragan is currently in his last year of a degree in Anthropology and Environment. His primary focus is sustainability and community based conservation, namely, how decentralizing authority over natural resources can lead to sustainable outcomes. Liam has to date ridden 4 species of megafauna, a number which he hopes to one day increase.

Composting in Montréal: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Liam Ragan Jan 1, 2019

The benefits of composting are clear and the need even more so, but progress rarely comes easy, especially when it comes to challenges of sustainability. Despite its late start, Montréal has seen a rapid increase in composting and is well…
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Kanien’kehá:ka Territory: Where McGill Stands

Liam Ragan Oct 12, 2018

As noteworthy as some of its recent Indigenous-oriented academic opportunities are, they come up short when contextualized by the fact that McGill is built on unceded Haudenosaunee land. The fact that many students reading this article will…
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¡Viva la Conservación! Learning from Cuba’s Conservation Matrix

Liam Ragan May 5, 2018

Land, Air, Sea: Rethinking Cuba (maybe: Land, Sea, Sky?) Cuba is a nation known for embodying paradox: it has a GDP just under Angola, but a higher life expectancy than the United States. Cuban doctors are world renowned, yet infamously…
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Community Resistance to Renewable Energy Projects: The Amherst Controversy

Liam Ragan Mar 21, 2018

Wind Turbines at Your Doorstep Taking the sleepy barge which spans the short distance between Amherst Island and the rest of Ontario, visitors to this agricultural township are immediately struck by a looming juxtaposition. Dotting the…
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Pipe Dreams: Indigenous Protest in the U.S. and Canada

Liam Ragan Feb 9, 2018

A Tale of Two Pipelines Moving up in unison, dozens of national guard and police enter Oceti Sakowin camp with weapons drawn, bringing to an end to the highly publicized Sioux protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline in Standing Rock, North…
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