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Monday, June 19, 2023
Co-presented by On 2 Ottawa and 350 Vancouver, join Steven Donziger and Peter Carter on Tuesday, June 20th @9PM (EDT) as they discuss the rapid climate changes happening in Canada in relation to the nationwide fires that have already engulfed >1M hectares of forest this year.... More
Youth Climate Lab's program, RAD Cohort, is launching again this summer! The Research Activate Deepen (RAD) Cohort program will equip 30 youth to engage in their communities and implement climate action. Who Should Apply: Youth, ages 18-30, currently based in Canada who are interested in creating a community of care and curiosity, and want to... 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
Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Environmental Defense is organizing an open letter to Minister Chrystia Freeland detailing their concern that the newly proposed hydrogen investment tax credit will be used to subsidize fossil-hydrogen technology. The following is copied from their email: As you might know, Finance Canada is now developing a hydrogen investment tax credit, set to... More
Monday, December 5, 2022
Carleton Climate Commons is organizing a group to attend the protests surrounding the UN Biodiversity COP 15 in Montreal next week! We are providing free food as well as transport by bus to and from Montreal on December 9th. We will be participating in the demonstration at Carré Saint Louis at 15:00. There's still lots... More
Thanks to everyone who came out to our COP 27 info table event with the Carleton Food Collective! It was great to see you all and to talk about international climate governance together! (And if you missed our event, don't worry, we hope to have more collaborations in the future!) Photos by Vladimir Díaz-Cuéllar;... More
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
Re-Imagine Ottawa is looking for signatures to petition the Governments of Canada and Ontario to halt destruction of the Dow's Lake Section of the Central Experimental Farm, a National Historic Site, and conduct a public inquiry. Click Here to Read and Sign the Petition To find out more about what's happening on the... More
Friday, October 7, 2022
Click Here to Register for our Oct. 13th Teach-In! Our next Noons for Now is a special in-person event discussing the interrelation between urban infrastructure and climate change. How can we plan for a climate changed future? What is the role of municipal politics in a just transition? What might a Green New Deal... 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
Friday, August 12, 2022
Special Issue proposal for Climate and Development Title: Power and (In)justice in Global Climate Governance: Collaborative Event Ethnography of the UNFCCC Process Guest Editors: Emily Hite, Jamie Haverkamp, and Charu Joshi Call for Abstracts We seek an interdisciplinary group of social scientists interested in conducting collaborative... More
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