Monday, March 26, 2018

Research Works Lunch

On March 28th, the Office of the Vice-President (Research and International) Carleton University will be holding a casual buffet lunch and talk by Professor Lenore Fahrig of the Department of Biology entitled: “Worried about species extinctions but don’t know what to do? Here’s help”. For further information about the event, please see... More

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, January 27, 2017

Academic Air Travel and Climate Change

CARLETON CLIMATE COMMONS BROWN BAG LUNCH Academic Air Travel and Climate Change: How Can We Move to Low-carbon Research at Carleton?   Moderated by Marie-Odile Junker (Linguistics and Language Studies)   Aviation has a disproportionately large impact on the climate system. Since 1990, CO2 emissions from international aviation have... More

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Facts, lies and climate change, Jon Zimmerman

You shouldn’t ‘teach the controversy’ about something that shouldn’t be controversial December 18, 2016 12:00 AM By Jonathan Zimmerman   According to a 2014 survey, half of people in the world haven’t heard of the Holocaust. Among the other half, about one- third don’t believe it actually happened. They think it’s a lie or... More

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Trump questionnaire recalls dark history of ideology-driven science

Courtesy of the conversation.com: https://theconversation.com/trump-questionnaire-recalls-dark-history-of-ideology-driven-science-70379 Paul N. Edwards, University of Michigan President-elect Trump has called global warming “bullshit” and a “Chinese hoax.” He has promised to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate treaty and to “bring... More

Friday, December 16, 2016

“Guerrilla Archiving Event” for Climate Data

from Academica Top Ten, 16 December 2016 U of T to co-host “guerrilla archiving event” to protect climate data from impending Trump presidency This Saturday, the University of Toronto and the University of Pennsylvania are set to co-host a “guerrilla archiving event” to preserve and protect climate data from an impending Trump presidency... More

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Follow-up Discussion: Opposing Carleton IRRG and Criminalization

An event regarding human rights, climate justice, and Indigenous land and water defense rights: Follow-up Discussion: Opposing Carleton IRRG and Criminalization  Tuesday, November 22 6:30 PM University Centre Room 279 Description: This event will feature a presentation on the IRRG, the people affiliated and its promotion of police powers and... More

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Call for Papers – Rust/Resistance: Works of Recovery, 2017 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) Biennial Conference

June 20 - 24, 2017 at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan Conference website: http://asle2017.clas.wayne.edu   In Rust: The Longest War, Jonathan Waldman claims that, for those who “yield to rust, find beauty in rust, capitalize on rust, raise awareness of rust, and teach about rust, work is riddled with scams, lawsuits, turf... 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

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Green Revolving Fund Winners!

The Green Revolving Fund committee would like to thank all members of the Carleton University community for their participation and interest in the Green Revolving Fund and for submitting their project ideas. This year, once again, we received a great response from the Carleton community. All project submissions were of a high caliber and... 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

Thursday, March 10, 2016

uWinnipeg Student, Faculty Associations call for fossil fuel divestment

Reposted from Academica Top Ten (http://academica.ca/topten) Originally published March 10th, 2016 The Student and Faculty Associations at the University of Winnipeg have asked the school to withdraw all of its investments in fossil fuels. The request applies specifically to fossil fuel stocks currently included in the portfolios of the... More

Sunday, February 7, 2016

UBC rejects divestment proposal, proposes $10 M sustainability fund

Reposted from Academia.edu. Originally published February 5, 2016 The University of British Columbia has reportedly proposed a $10 M sustainability fund instead of divesting from fossil fuel companies, despite last year’s majority vote by both UBC students and faculty in favour of fossil fuel divestment. The decision was frustrating, said... More

Monday, January 11, 2016

Book Launch: Far Off Metal River by Dr. Emilie Cameron

Please join the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton University as we celebrate the launch of a new book by Dr. Emilie Cameron. Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic Friday, January 22, 2016 2:30pm - 4pm Room 252, MacOdrum Library Carleton Univerity This... More

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Event – Climate Change Curriculum Roundtable – Dec. 4th

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Monday, October 26, 2015

Great Climate Courses: PSCI 5810 Approaches to Environmental Politics

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

What Would You Do With $1 million? Green Revolving Fund Committee Accepting Ideas

Do you have a great idea that would help make Carleton a more sustainable campus? For the third year, the Green Revolving Fund Committee is accepting applications from faculty, staff and students. The university’s $1-million Green Revolving Fund is part of its campus-wide Energy and Sustainability Program. A Green Revolving Fund Committee (GRFC)... More

Saturday, October 3, 2015

Climate Change Resiliency Toolkit for Health Care

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

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

Noel Salmond, The Mahatma, the Pope, and the Planet: “Gandhian Reflections on the Pope’s Recent Letter on the Environment”

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

Gasper, Poverty and Climate Change

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

Campus Divestment Campaigns Gaining Momentum

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

5 Canadian institutions among North America’s greenest

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

Mike Brklacich, “IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Is there anything new under the sun?”

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 9, 2015

Divest Dal protests Shell donation

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

Jodi Dean, This Changes Some Things

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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