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Monday, June 24, 2024
Presentations at 12:30pm, 1:15pm and 2:00pm "Join museum Science Advisor, Dr. Cassandra Marion, for an interactive presentation where you'll explore climate change using real satellite imagery. Discover how to interpret and track changes from space, gaining a deeper understanding of climate changes in areas that matter to you around the globe.... More
Friday, January 12, 2024
Join Heartland in their event: Cultivating Climate Courage through Deep Time "In the Work That Reconnects, “Deep Time” refers to a sense of time that extends far beyond our lifetime. It includes all that has gone before – that has shaped us and our world – and a sense of how our actions now... More
Thursday, June 8, 2023
Hosted by the Environmental Action Group at the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa, there is a virtual talk on Tuesday June 13th, @6:30PM by Markham Hislop on the topic of "Unethical Oil: Alberta's Secret... More
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
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
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
Monday, September 19, 2022
Climate Datathon: A great opportunity with cash prizes and an opportunity for the winners to present their findings at the Science and Information Day of the next UN Climate Summit in Egypt (COP27). The Global Stocktake Climate Datathon is a call for open data and tools to support the Global Stocktake (GST) ahead of COP27. The goal... More
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its sixth assessment report earlier this year. The report focuses on mitigation and details what must be done to avoid the worst outcomes of climate change. This week’s Noons for Now discussion will address the implications of this IPCC report while also providing a space for... More
Friday, December 17, 2021
Climate Commons member and Chancellor’s Professor of Biology, Lenore Fahrig, recently published an article in the Globe and Mail discussing the feasibility of individual actions, such as home energy transitioning, that can start to address the climate crisis. You can read the article and find out more by clicking here.... More
Monday, April 12, 2021
One of our group members, Vladimir Diaz Cuellar, is interested in starting a climate science reading group. The first meeting will be held at 6PM EST on April 16th to determine readings for the group. Please contact Vlad if you’re interested in participating in the reading group or if you’d like more information. His email... More
Tuesday, December 20, 2016
You shouldn’t ‘teach the controversy’ about something that shouldn’t be controversial December 18, 2016 12:00 AM By Jonathan Zimmerman According to a 2014 survey, half of people in the world haven’t heard of the Holocaust. Among the other half, about one- third don’t believe it actually happened. They think it’s a lie or... 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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