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Monday, May 1, 2017
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016
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
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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
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
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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