Tuesday, April 22, 2025Ottawa May Day March 2025 (May 1)As a longstanding international holiday, May Day is a day to celebrate the collective power of all who labor – paid and unpaid, formal and informal, in care work and field work – all of the activities that sustain us and our community. It’s a day to recommit to forging solidarity across borders against exploitation... MoreTuesday, April 1, 2025Climate Commons with the Ottawa International Writers Festival: Author reading and discussion on Ruthanna Emrys’ A Half-Built Garden (Apr 15)Carleton University’s Climate Commons with the Ottawa International Writers Festival presents an author reading and discussion on Ruthanna Emrys' A Half-Built Garden. A literary descendent of Ursula K. Le Guin, Ruthanna Emrys’s has crafted a novel of extraterrestrial diplomacy and urgent climate repair bursting with quiet, tenuous hope and... MoreMonday, March 31, 2025EACH 4000: Potluck and Project Showcase (Apr 10)Join the EACH 4000 class in celebration with free food and exciting topics, including discussions on sustainability, visible mending, gardening for the future, fallen tree ecology, and zine giveaways! April 10 6:30-8:00PM Dunton Tower 1812... MoreMonday, March 24, 2025TEXTILE REMIX 001 (Mar 29)TEXTILE REMIX Bring an old pair of jeans (or any clothing item!) that needs mending and learn basic hand sewing, embroidery, and visible mending techniques inspired by traditional Japanese Sashiko and Boro stitching. All supplies, including beads, bows, thread, scrap fabric selection, and more will be provided for you to play and get creative... MoreMonday, January 6, 2025Event: The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Epochal Crises of Time (Jan 16)RSVP Required Date: Thursday, January 16th, 2025 2:30 pm Location: Richcraft Hall, Reader's Digest Resource Centre (RB 4400) Audience: Current Students, Faculty, Staff Contact: Dwayne Winseck, dwayne.winseck@carleton.ca The Anthropocene, Global Capitalism and Epochal Crises of Time Humankind inhabits the epochal formations of fossil-based... MoreTuesday, December 3, 2024Socialist Seminar: Sabrina Fernandes, “Green Sacrifice Zones & the Political Economy of Unjust Transitions” (Dec 11)December 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM 1524 Dunton Tower and Zoom Dr. Sabrina Fernandes is a Canadian and Brazilian sociologist and political economist, ecosocialist activist, acclaimed author, and IPE alumna; currently Head of Research at the Alameda Institute, she is the author of Se Quiser Mudar o Mundo: Um guia politico para... MoreTuesday, March 14, 2023Coming to Our Senses About Climate Change (April 4)Coming to Our Senses About Climate Change Where: Mike's Place Pub When: April 4th, 5-7PM Climate Commons is organizing a social and community-building event that will feature speakers that bring together all five senses on the topic of climate change. We'll have more information coming soon, but in the meantime we're looking for musicians,... MoreTuesday, February 21, 20232023 Worldwide Climate Teach-In (week of March 29)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... MoreSunday, February 19, 2023Webinar: The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change (March 2)The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change When: March 2nd, 6:30-8PM (EST) Where: Online Check out this upcoming webinar organized by the Centre on Hate Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech: We warmly welcome you to join us for a The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy... MoreMonday, February 13, 2023Noons for Now: Open Discussion (Feb. 16)Feb. 16: Noons for Now: Open Discussion Our last teach-in of the month is dedicated to an open discussion. We will pick up threads from previous conversations to see where they take us, and we will develop new ideas for concrete actions to engage in individually and as a community. Everyone is welcome, whether... MoreTuesday, February 7, 2023Noons for Now: Using Heat Pumps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Homes in Ottawa with Bill Nuttle and Holly Bickerton (Feb. 9)Feb. 9: Using Heat Pumps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Homes in Ottawa with Bill Nuttle and Holly Bickerton We will hear from two homeowners from Ottawa who have used air source heat pumps to reduce GHG emissions from older, pre-1950s homes. Electricity generated in Ontario is over 90 percent fossil-free. Replacing a... MoreWednesday, December 14, 2022Planetary PR: Growing Disinformation in Climate Spaces with Melissa Aronczyk (Jan. 13)... MoreMonday, December 5, 2022Join Climate Commons in Montreal for the COP 15 Protests!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... MoreMonday, December 5, 2022Noons for Now: The role and responsibility of academia in the context of the planetary crisis – or what is to be done? with John Barry (Dec. 8)If we are in a planetary crisis (as all scientific evidence suggests), why do we not witness academia and academics acting as if it is a crisis? How do we explain and understand how and why we, as academics and academic institutions, continue with a more or less ‘business as usual’ approach? What would... MoreMonday, December 5, 2022COP 27 Info Table with Carleton Food Collective (Nov 25)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;... MoreFriday, November 4, 2022Noons for Now: Citation Politics with Christina Crespo (Nov. 10)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... MoreTuesday, October 25, 2022Noons for Now: Open Discussion (IN-PERSON, Oct. 27)Click Here to Register for our Oct. 27th Teach-In! Our last teach-in of the month is dedicated to an open discussion. We will pick up threads from previous conversations to see where they take us, and we will develop new ideas for concrete actions to engage in individually and as a community. Everyone is... MoreMonday, October 17, 2022Confluence: Art, Science and Water in Conversation with Susan Shantz (Nov. 1)Click to... MoreMonday, October 17, 2022Noons for Now: Decolonization and Climate Action with Decolonial Solidarity Ottawa-Gatineau (Oct. 20)Click Here to Register for our Oct. 20th Teach-In! Decolonial Solidarity affinity groups came into existence in December 2021. During an online call to action with Indigenous land defenders, we heard firsthand about ongoing struggles of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who have been opposing construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline on... MoreMonday, October 17, 2022Water is Life: The History and Future of Indigenous Resistance on Turtle Island with Nick Estes (Oct. 21)Click to... MoreThursday, October 13, 2022Winter Clothing Swap (Oct. 19)Join us at Ollie's on October 19th at 4:30PM for a winter clothing swap! Bring clothes to donate and/or find something to take home with you! We'll have food and drinks available, as well as a variety of local climate organizations to chat with. More information will be coming... MoreFriday, October 7, 2022Noons for Now: Climate Policy, Urban Infrastructure, and the Municipal Election (In-Person, Oct. 13)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... MoreMonday, October 3, 2022Noons for Now: Community-Engaged Climate Scholarship (Oct. 6)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... MoreFriday, September 16, 2022Noons for Now: Land Acknowledgements and Decolonial Climate Justice (Sept. 22)Click Here to Register for our Sept. 22nd Teach-In! Rita Wong lives, writes and works in unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver) and teaches at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. Her books of poetry such as Beholden: A Poem as Long as a River (with Fred Wah & the Columbia River) and perpetual (with artist Cindy Mochizuki)... MoreTuesday, September 6, 2022Noons for Now: Meet & Greet (In-Person) Sept. 15... MoreMonday, June 27, 2022Noons for Now: Regime of Obstruction: The Economic, Political, and Cultural Power of Fossil Capital in Canada (June 30)It is evident that our climate system is in breakdown, due to the global warming that has been caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels. The solution to this urgent challenge has often been presented as one of changing consumer behaviour -- through carbon taxes and educating the public to use less energy... MoreFriday, June 17, 2022Noons for Now: Carleton’s Climate Response Committee (June 23)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... MoreTuesday, June 14, 2022Noons for Now: Open Discussion (June 16)June 16th will be the final open discussion teach-in until Noons for Now returns in fall 2022. As such, we hope to reflect on the series as a whole and discuss what comes next for Noons for Now, and for this community in the months ahead. What actions should we initiate? What topics do... MoreFriday, June 3, 2022Noons for Now: Kitchen Table Climate Conversations (June 9)How can we effectively talk with others about the climate emergency? This week's Noons for Now features Kitchen Table Climate Conversations (KTCC’s), a Toronto-based grassroots initiative which aims to empower people to hold conversations about climate justice that increase understanding of the climate emergency, honour emotions, spark effective... MoreTuesday, May 31, 2022Noons for Now: The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (June 2)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... MoreFriday, May 20, 2022Noons for Now: Open Discussion (May 26)Our last teach-in of the month is dedicated to an open discussion. We will pick up threads from previous conversations to see where they take us, and we will develop new ideas for concrete actions to engage in individually and as a community. Everyone is welcome, whether you’ve attended a past teach-in or not!... MoreTuesday, May 17, 2022Noons for Now: Do I Know Enough to Teach About Climate Change? (May 19)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... MoreTuesday, May 10, 2022Noons for Now: Climate Twitter (May 12)What is the role of social media in mobilizing social and political change? What is the role, in particular, of Twitter in the climate movement? Does it work? If so, how? If not, why not? Join us to discuss! Speakers: Genevieve Guenther is the founding director of End Climate Silence, a volunteer organization that... MoreTuesday, May 3, 2022Noons for Now: Local Action at the Experimental Farm (May 5)Hundreds of trees in Queen Juliana Park on the Experimental Farm in Ottawa are slated to be cut down for the development of the new Civic Hospital's parking lot. Work began in April, despite years of protesting, petitions, and the fact that the park is a designated National Historic Site. Join us this week... MoreTuesday, April 12, 2022Noons for Now: Climate Change and Experiential Learning (April 14)Amid the flourishing of strategies designed to support adaptation of our natural, physical, and social environments, progressive educational scholars are also calling for more action within educational institutions to promote a deeper transformation in students of all ages, one that is more intimate and personal, and that they believe is essential... 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