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Monday, April 24, 2023
What Can Academic Climate Activists Do? Instead of our regular Noons for Now this week, we join History Rebellion to hear Climate Commons' own Vladimir Diaz Cuellar and others speak about how to expand the climate movement into... More
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
The Cross Canada Campus Tour is a free initiative part of the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival with support from the Canada Council for the Arts that enables free film screenings for campus groups and classes. Your group or class can select a film, then book a date for your on... More
Thursday, February 23, 2023
In December last year, Earth Scientist Dr. Rose Abramoff, was fired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Climate Change Science Institute in the USA for unfurling a banner with Dr. Peter Kalmus (a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab) that read “Out of the lab and into the streets” before a plenary talk in the meeting of... More
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
2023 Worldwide Climate Teach-In When? Wednesday, March 29th (or anytime that week!) Join the Carleton Climate Commons, History Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and many other organizations in the upcoming WORLDWIDE TEACH-IN ON CLIMATE AND JUSTICE on and around March 29, 2023. Last year this event engaged an estimated 50,000 students at more than 300... More
Monday, January 16, 2023
Vladimir Díaz-Cuéllar, Climate Commons member and PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, has recently published an article in the National Observer with Kirsten Francescone (Trent University). Díaz-Cuéllar and Francescone discuss their approaches to teaching climate change to frame their... More
Friday, November 4, 2022
Click Here to Register for our Nov. 10th Teach-In! How can we cite differently to create the academic world we hope for? As a primary academic currency, citations play a central role in reproducing systems of power. Who we cite, what we cite, and how we cite them aren’t just questions of formatting or... More
Monday, October 3, 2022
Click Here to Register for our Oct. 6th Teach-In! Meera Karunananthan (Carleton University) has been working with water justice networks around the world for nearly 15 years. Her research methodology combines feminist ethnographic research with critical policy analysis as part of dialogical processes of building knowledge of systems operating... More
Friday, August 12, 2022
The following call for proposals is copied from the project page on the MLA website, found here. Proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Energy Humanities, edited by Debby Rosenthal and Jason Molesky. Cultures breathe energy. Energy humanities, a swiftly growing subfield of the environmental... More
Friday, June 17, 2022
At this time last year, the Climate Commons collected over 500 signatures for our letter to the upper administration at Carleton U urging the university to bring its campus operations, teaching, and research into line with the demands of the climate crisis. We’re grateful that the president formed a Climate Response Committee, chaired by... More
Thursday, May 26, 2022
A combination of twelve invited speakers and panelists will address key concepts, methods and resources that can help transform the work of heritage educators in transitions towards changing times. Join us to hear from experts discuss critical themes for capacity building and training, including Climate impacts and vulnerability assessment, Urban... More
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
In this session, Emilie Cameron will reflect on the challenges and rewards of teaching a large 2nd-year course on the social science dimensions of climate change as a non-specialist. What kinds of expertise do both instructors and students think is required in order to engage with climate change, and how might we reimagine the... More
Friday, May 13, 2022
The following is posted from the May 2022 Divest Canada Coalition Newsletter: UdeM Divests Following Week-long Occupation! L’Université de Montréal has committed to full divestment by 2025 following a 5 day student occupation led by l’Ecothèque! This win demonstrates the power of student-led direct action. Huge congrats to the hundreds of... More
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