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Saturday, October 3, 2015
The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care has developed a climate change resiliency toolkit for healthcare facilities. The toolkit is healthcare specific but could easily be adapted to other institutional environments. The Climate Change Resiliency web pages are here: http://www.greenhealthcare.ca/resiliency/ To access the toolkit you need to... More
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Campus divestment campaigns gaining momentum Reposted from Academica.edu As the worldwide debate around divestment from fossil fuels rages, thirty campuses across Canada are now home to divestment campaigns. Reactions have been diverse: Concordia University has created a fossil-free fund, while the University of Calgary has ruled outdivesting.... More
Monday, September 21, 2015
The College of the Humanities M.K. GANDHI LECTURE SERIES Co-sponsored by Mahatma Gandhi Peace Council of Ottawa This event is part of the 9th Annual Ottawa Peace Festival The Mahatma, the Pope, and the Planet: Gandhian Reflections on the Pope’s Recent Letter on the Environment Speaker: Prof. Noel Salmond Carleton University Sunday,... More
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Assessing & Responding to Climate Change: Ignoring the Poor? Des Gasper, Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University, The Hague How far are humanistic principles -- principles of judging in terms of all the valued impacts on all people – actually important in assessments of climate change? The paper identifies mechanisms by which... More
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Reposted from Academica Top Ten (16 June 2105) As the worldwide debate around divestment from fossil fuels rages, thirty campuses across Canada are now home to divestment campaigns. Reactions have been diverse: Concordia University has created a fossil-free fund, while the University of Calgary has ruled out divesting. Students and faculty have... More
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Reposted from Academica Group Top Ten Five Canadian universities are among the greenest in North America, according to The Princeton Review's Guide to 353 Green Colleges. The guide assigns institutions a "Green Rating" of between 60 and 99. Only those achieving scores of higher than 83 appear on the list of 353. The University of Victoria... More
Sunday, May 10, 2015
IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Is there anything new under the sun? Wednesday, May 13, 2015/le mercredi 13 mai 2015 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m./ 11:00 – 12:00 (Eastern Time/ heure de l’est) Speaker/Présentateur Professor Mike Brklacich Chancellor's Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies Associate Dean (Graduate... More
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Reposted from Academica Top Ten The 2015 list of Canada’s Greenest Employers has been released, with 8 PSE institutions appearing this year. Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Mohawk College, Red River College, the University of Alberta, UBC, the University of Northern British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and York University were selected... More
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
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The Green Revolving Fund Projects Announced The Green Revolving Fund committee would like to thank all members of the Carleton University community for their participation and interest in in the second annual Green Revolving Fund call for ideas. The fund continues to promote and ensure wider sustainability ideas from the Carleton community can be... More
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Divest Dal protests Shell donation Reposted from Academica Top Ten, 9 April 2015 Students at Dalhousie University are protesting a $600,000 donation made to the institution from Shell Canada. Members of Divest Dal say that the donation, which includes $100,000 for training students in oil and gas exploration and development, makes the school... More
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
This Changes Some Things Jodi Dean Reposted from I Cite How do we imagine the climate changing? Some scenarios involve techno-fixes like cloud-seeding or new kinds of carbon sinks. Cool tech, usually backed by even cooler entrepreneurs, saves the day -- Iron Man plus Al Gore plus Steve Jobs. In green. Other scenarios are... More
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