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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
Friday, May 21, 2021
The Carleton Climate Commons is seeking signatures for a letter urging Carleton University to join over 7,000 other universities around the world in declaring a climate emergency. Doing so will commit Carleton to a 3-point action plan as stipulated here. To this plan, the Carleton Climate Commons has added two additional action points:... 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
Monday, February 8, 2021
Climate Action Carleton is a student-led activist group founded in 2019. Both on and off the Carleton campus, Climate Action Carleton lobbies those who have the power to make impactful climate-related decisions that are essential for the future of Carleton’s students and the welfare of our community, country, and of our world. At Carleton... More
Friday, February 5, 2021
Check out the UN's Climate Change and Universities Partnership Programme being coordinated by the Nairobi work program (NWP) to help graduate students work with local, national and regional partners to develop research projects as part of their master's theses that address crucial knowledge gaps standing in the way of countries implementing... More
Corporate power • fossil capital • climate crisis A three week-long course open to social science graduate students from across Canada May 10-28, 2021 • University of Victoria Join us for the Corporate Mapping Project’s third summer institute, offered by the University of Victoria Department of Sociology. Space is limited — please RSVP... More
Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Please join us for “The Ethics of Pedagogy and Crisis Pt. 2: Teaching Climate Emergency,” a teach-in jointly organized by the Culture and Crisis Collective and the Carleton Climate Commons. The teach-in will take place over Zoom on Tuesday, December 1st at 7:30PM EST. To register for the event, head to our website here.... More
Friday, October 23, 2020
Click here to sign the petition and show your... More
Friday, February 21, 2020
The following blog is reposted, with permission, from the Fahrig Lab blog. Lenore Fahrig is Chancellor’s Professor of Biology and co-director of the Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory (GLEL) at Carleton University. Read the original post here. Five years ago I gave up flying. I had discovered that air travel was by far... More
Monday, January 13, 2020
The following is a call for faculty and instructors teaching on climate related topics this winter to consider having their students participate in Solve Climate By 2030, a collaborative exercise for their students to share ideas on climate solutions: As faculty prepare their spring syllabi, please alert all of your colleagues who care about... More
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Reposted from: FASSinate Blog. Originally posted on August 28, 2018 Confronting climate change through the humanities and social sciences By by Kim Sigouin, Ph.D. Candidate (English) In April 2017, I stood on the bank of the Rideau River as it raged past Carleton’s campus. I wasn’t the only one. Many people had come out to... More
Friday, December 16, 2016
from Academica Top Ten, 16 December 2016 U of T to co-host “guerrilla archiving event” to protect climate data from impending Trump presidency This Saturday, the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania are set to co-host a “guerrilla archiving event” to preserve and protect climate data from an impending Trump presidency... More
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