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Monday, February 12, 2024
In collaboration with a local artist, Maria Gomez Umana, the Carleton Conservation Collective will be painting a bird-friendly mural on the walkways connecting Mackenzie and Architecture buildings from February 26 – March 1. The Bird Friendly Art project aims to make Carleton more bird-friendly and help prevent future collisions on... More
Monday, January 22, 2024
Media Production and Design students, Phil Doucet, Cara Garneau, Lyndsay St-Côme, and Beatrice Villadelgado are making a documentary for their capstone project: "Smoke Signals: The Impact of Media's Take on Wildfires". They are looking at how media coverage on wildfires impacts public perception of wildfires and their link to climate... More
Monday, January 8, 2024
The College of the Humanities and Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa invite all to attend a public lecture at Carleton University with internationally-renowned climate activist, environmentalist and author Bill McKibben. Notes from the Climate Struggle: Global warming is the biggest thing humans have ever done; we need the movement... More
Monday, November 20, 2023
Invitation from Carleton Food Collective: "We are excited to be hosting our Summit event next week on Friday, November 24th, 4pm-8pm. We would love to have a few representatives of your club attend the event. Here is the agenda for the event: - Doors open at 4pm - 5:30 pm Ice Breaker/ Introductions -... More
Monday, October 30, 2023
On Nov 2, 2023 12:00 PM (Zoom) Re.Climate is hosting an event called "Global Burning: National Media Coverage of Climate Change and Wildfires in Canada" which discusses how National media has a great influence over policymakers and the general public, significantly shaping discussions and perceptions around climate change and what we can do about... More
Monday, October 23, 2023
Carleton University is hosting Canadian Centre for Climate Services and ClimateData.ca with Casey Clunas, Policy Analyst, Canadian Centre for Climate Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada on October 30 from 10-11:30am (Loeb A200 Computer Lab) on Finding and Accessing Canadian Climate Data. Abstract: "This presentation will introduce the... More
Sunday, October 15, 2023
A research group out of the Institute of Environmental and Interdisciplinary Sciences is starting "Conservation Action" meetings. The first meeting is "Conservation Action Lunch" on Wednesday Oct 18 1130-1245 in CTTC4440Q Tackling the environmental crisis requires swift action. Given the growing number of graduate students and faculty... More
Monday, October 2, 2023
Ottawa Writers Festival presents Naomi Klein on her book Doppelganger @7PM at Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St), hosted by Carleton’s Adrian Harewood. Join Adrian Harewood for a conversation with the award-winning, bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine, and This Changes Everything, about her latest... More
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Carleton University Art Gallery (CUAG) is hosting artist Rajni Perera's exhibit "Futures" which utilizes painting, sculpture and photography, and combines elements of science fiction to imagine a vivid, strange, and hopeful climate-changed future. Perera’s work responds to existential threats with creativity and invention, offering a vision... More
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Lenore Fahrig (Dept. of Biology) is a long-time member of the Carleton Climate Commons and we are thrilled to celebrate her receipt of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, the country's top science and engineering medal. Congratulations, Lenore! There will be a public celebration for Lenore and other award recipients... More
Friday, June 18, 2021
The Climate Action Letter, written and circulated by the Carleton Climate Commons, requests that the university act on a five-point climate plan. First, it asks the university to join over 7,000 other universities around the world and declare a climate emergency. Doing so would commit the university to a widely-endorsed three-point action plan... More
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
On February 26th 2021, VP Research and International Rafik Goubran signed off on the MOU that makes Carleton University an official member of the international Climate Heritage Network. The Climate Heritage Network is a voluntary membership organization that supports heritage actors in taking on the climate action strategies of their communities... More
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