Monday, January 30, 2023

CFP: Looking through the Anthropocene: Exploring Climate Change and Global Uncertainties (Deadline: Feb. 3)

ENGLISH GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION (EGSA) CONFERENCE 2023 Looking through the Anthropocene: Exploring Climate Change and Global Uncertainties Date: 10-12 March 2023 Since the industrial revolution, the advancement of human technology has facilitated the exponential exploitation of nature. The ramifications of this exploitation have prompted... More

Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Open Letter: Prevent Proposed Hydrogen Investment Tax Credit from Becoming a Fossil Fuel Subsidy (Sign by Feb. 3)

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, January 23, 2023

MOCHI launches weekly Climate Cafés!

We're excited to announce that our friends at MOCHI have launched a new program of weekly Climate Cafés. The Climate Cafés are safe and supportive spaces where people come together to discuss topics related to climate change. Each week, they will be highlighting a different discussion theme. The Climate Cafés are happening online every... More

Monday, January 16, 2023

Repost: The burning case for climate crisis post-secondary education in Canada by Vladimir Díaz-Cuéllar & Kirsten Francescone

Vladimir Díaz-Cuéllar, Climate Commons member and PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University, has recently published an article in the National Observer with Kirsten Francescone (Trent University). Díaz-Cuéllar and Francescone discuss their approaches to teaching climate change to frame their... More

Monday, January 9, 2023

BSPA Conference: Afrofuturism: Reimagining Climate Change from a Black Lens (Jan. 27-28)

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Friday, January 6, 2023

Climate Histories: a public lecture series happening Jan. 9th – Feb. 6th

Join Carleton's Department of History and Department of Geography and Environmental Studies for a series of Monday night lectures on the history of weather and climate. These events are part of the 2023 Shannon Lecture series and will take place at 7PM at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (355 Cooper Street, Ottawa) as well as... More

Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Planetary PR: Growing Disinformation in Climate Spaces with Melissa Aronczyk (Jan. 13)

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Join 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... More

Monday, December 5, 2022

Noons 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... More

Monday, December 5, 2022

COP 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;... More

Monday, November 28, 2022

Webinar: Sustainable Futures from Theory to Practice (Dec. 2)

Sustainable Futures from Theory to Practice You are invited to join us for the grand finale of ENST 2001 (Sustainable Futures: Environmental Challenges and Solutions) Hear from guest speakers involved in inspiring initiatives to promote just and sustainable futures at home and abroad. Learn about the creative work of activist artists at the... More

Friday, November 4, 2022

Noons 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... More

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Congratulations to Lenore Fahrig, recipient of NSERC’s Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering

Lenore Fahrig (Dept. of Biology) is a long-time member of the Carleton Climate Commons and we are thrilled to celebrate her receipt of the Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, the country's top science and engineering medal. Congratulations, Lenore! There will be a public celebration for Lenore and other award recipients... More

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Petition: Investigate the Hospital Site Change From Tunney’s Pasture to the Experimental Farm

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

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Noons 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... More

Monday, October 17, 2022

Confluence: Art, Science and Water in Conversation with Susan Shantz (Nov. 1)

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Monday, October 17, 2022

Noons 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... More

Monday, October 17, 2022

Water is Life: The History and Future of Indigenous Resistance on Turtle Island with Nick Estes (Oct. 21)

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

Winter 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... More

Friday, October 7, 2022

Noons 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... More

Monday, October 3, 2022

Noons 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... More

Monday, September 19, 2022

The Global Stocktake Climate Datathon, launching Sept. 21

  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, September 16, 2022

Noons 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)... More

Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Noons for Now: Meet & Greet (In-Person) Sept. 15

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Friday, August 12, 2022

Call for Proposals: “Teaching the Energy Humanities” Collection (due Oct. 31)

The following call for proposals is copied from the project page on the MLA website, found here. Proposals are invited for a volume in the MLA Options for Teaching series entitled Teaching Energy Humanities, edited by Debby Rosenthal and Jason Molesky. Cultures breathe energy. Energy humanities, a swiftly growing subfield of the environmental... More

Friday, August 12, 2022

Call for Abstracts: Power and (In)justice in Global Climate Governance (due Aug. 30)

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

Monday, June 27, 2022

Noons for Now: Call for Topics/Speakers

The Noons for Now Teach-In’s will break for the summer but we will resume again on Thursday 15 September. In the meantime, we're planning our Fall line-up of speakers and we'd appreciate any suggestions you have on what you'd like to discuss, as well as speakers that you'd like us to bring in. You... More

Monday, June 27, 2022

Noons 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... More

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Climate Action Awareness Fund Now Accepting Applications

The following is reposted from Environment and Climate Change Canada: The Climate Action and Awareness Fund (CAAF) has opened the Support to Canadian Think Tanks and Academic Institutions Call for Proposals (CFP). The objective of this call for proposals is to support research and analysis projects that will identify, accelerate, and evaluate... More

Friday, June 17, 2022

Noons 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... More

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Noons 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... More

Tuesday, June 7, 2022

The Hottest August: Film Screening (June 8)

The following event is shared on behalf of the Ottawa Art Gallery: The Hottest August: A film about climate change, disguised as a portrait of collective anxiety. On Wednesday June 8 from 7 to 9 pm in the OAG Alma Duncan Salon, the Ottawa Art Gallery in a partnership with the Ottawa Sanctuary City... More

Monday, June 6, 2022

Fossil Capitalism, Climate Breakdown and Green-Left Strategies (June 15)

The following event is shared on behalf of the Society for Socialist Studies: Fossil Capitalism, Climate Breakdown and Green-Left Strategies June 15, 2022 at 4pm Pacific Register on Eventbrite As carbon emissions push the earth system toward (and possibly already through) climate tipping points, the contradictions of fossil capitalism present an... More

Monday, June 6, 2022

350.org Mass Organizing Call: End Climate Delay (June 9)

The following event is shared on behalf of 350.org: Last summer extreme heat killed over 600 people in Canada alone, but Trudeau continues to delay meaningful climate action. That’s why on June 29th – to mark the anniversary of the Heat Dome – communities across the country will take action. Together, we will hold... More

Friday, June 3, 2022

Noons 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... More

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