Archives: Climate Change

Monday, May 1, 2017

Choosing Not to Fly Need Not Ground Your Career

Lenore Fahrig Interviewed by Marie Odile   Bio: Lenore Fahrig has been a professor of Biology at Carleton since 1991. She conducts research on the effects of human-caused landscape change on biodiversity.   Lenore, you made the decision to stop flying for work. When did you make that decision and why? I made the... More

Friday, September 16, 2016

Resilience in a Multispecies World: The 2017 John Douglas Taylor Conference

April 21-23 2017 McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario In 1973, forest ecologist C.S. Holling introduced the concept of resilience to describe the ability of an ecological system to withstand, absorb or fortify against disturbances in a way that still maintains its basic structures. In recent years the concept of resilience has been extrapolated... More

Friday, September 16, 2016

Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting – Data Infrastructures, Nature, and Politics

Organizers: Eric Nost (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Jenny Goldstein (Cornell University) Discussant: Luke Bergmann (University of Washington) Date and location: April 5-7 2017, Boston, MA Conservationists around the world are turning to new data collection, modeling, and visualization software they believe may help “save the planet”. For... More

Monday, July 18, 2016

Call for Papers – The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures

We invite presentations of all kinds on the theme of “The World in 2050: Imagining and Creating Just Climate Futures” for an online, nearly carbon-neutral conference (described below) that will take place from October 24 to November 14, 2016. Coordinated by UC Santa Barbara, this conference is part of a series of events on “Climate... More

Thursday, July 7, 2016

UWinnipeg creates green investment fund, faces criticism from students

Reposted from: The Academica Group. Originally posted on June 30, 2016 Representatives from the student group Divest UWinnipeg have criticized the school’s decision to pursue strategic alternatives to a full divestment from fossil fuels. The university has been consulting with the group for the past year. The group has asked the University of... More

Friday, June 24, 2016

PROFESSOR OF ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

Reposted from: Australian Environmental Humanities Hub. Originally posted on June 22, 2016. Bath Spa University is launching the UK’s first taught MA in Environmental Humanities. Building on Bath Spa’s long-standing strength in literature and environment, this innovative interdisciplinary programme, led by Kate Rigby, brings (post-)human... More

Monday, June 13, 2016

UPCOMING EVENT: Leap Community Forum: An Open and Critical Discussion about the Leap Manifesto

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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD POLITICS

By: Irena Knezevic with contributions from Peter Andrée Photo credit: Maranda Grant For most of us who think about the food system, the link between food and climate change seems obvious. Figuring out exactly what that relationship is can be more blurry. Carleton Climate Commons hosted a roundtable on this topic on March 17th... More

Wednesday, April 6, 2016

WORKSHOP ON CLIMATE CHANGE, THE CURRICULUM & THE UNIVERSITY

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Global Economic and Climate Change along the Silk Road: Crisis in Central Asia and Afghanistan

In the age of the Silk Road, Central Asia and Afghanistan came to prominence by facilitating global trade between China and the Mediterranean. Today, the fortunes of the region are still tied to global trends, but these are taking an increasingly negative turn.     A profound economic crisis is gripping the region. The... More

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Mosaic: Call for Submissions

Within the biological-ecological sciences from which the term Anthropocene emerged, “scale” has a longer history and broader usage than it does within the now-proliferating philosophical, critical, theoretical, and ethical discourses that address environmentalism, climate change, and the Anthropocene’s status as a sixth major extinction... More

Thursday, March 10, 2016

Food Politics Round Table

Only one more week until our Round table focussed on Food Politics in relation to climate change! Join us next Thursday, March 17th, to hear from our talented panelists. This is a completely FREE event! More details in the poster... More

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