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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
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
An event regarding human rights, climate justice, and Indigenous land and water defense rights: Follow-up Discussion: Opposing Carleton IRRG and Criminalization Tuesday, November 22 6:30 PM University Centre Room 279 Description: This event will feature a presentation on the IRRG, the people affiliated and its promotion of police powers and... More
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
June 20 - 24, 2017 at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan Conference website: http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu In Rust: The Longest War, Jonathan Waldman claims that, for those who “yield to rust, find beauty in rust, capitalize on rust, raise awareness of rust, and teach about rust, work is riddled with scams, lawsuits, turf... More
Friday, September 16, 2016
April 21-23 2017 McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario In 1973, forest ecologist C.S. Holling introduced the concept of resilience to describe the ability of an ecological system to withstand, absorb or fortify against disturbances in a way that still maintains its basic structures. In recent years the concept of resilience has been extrapolated... More
Organizers: Eric Nost (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Jenny Goldstein (Cornell University) Discussant: Luke Bergmann (University of Washington) Date and location: April 5-7 2017, Boston, MA Conservationists around the world are turning to new data collection, modeling, and visualization software they believe may help “save the planet”. For... More
Monday, July 18, 2016
We invite presentations of all kinds on the theme of “The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures” for an online, nearly carbon-neutral conference (described below) that will take place from October 24 to November 14, 2016. Coordinated by UC Santa Barbara, this conference is part of a series of events on “Climate... More
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Reposted from: The Academica Group. Originally posted on June 30, 2016 Representatives from the student group Divest UWinnipeg have criticized the school’s decision to pursue strategic alternatives to a full divestment from fossil fuels. The university has been consulting with the group for the past year. The group has asked the University of... More
Friday, June 24, 2016
Reposted from: Australian Environmental Humanities Hub. Originally posted on June 22, 2016. Bath Spa University is launching the UK’s first taught MA in Environmental Humanities. Building on Bath Spa’s long-standing strength in literature and environment, this innovative interdisciplinary programme, led by Kate Rigby, brings (post-)human... More
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
By: Irena Knezevic with contributions from Peter Andrée Photo credit: Maranda Grant For most of us who think about the food system, the link between food and climate change seems obvious. Figuring out exactly what that relationship is can be more blurry. Carleton Climate Commons hosted a roundtable on this topic on March 17th... More
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