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

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Fall 2015 Documentary Film Series

On October 20th, 2015, Carleton Climate Commons will be launching the Fall 2015 documentary film series The first film is WATERMARK. Everyone is welcome and admission is FREE! All three documentaries will be hosted in the Discovery Centre, 4th Floor, MacOdrum Library. Please click here for more... 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

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Sustainability at the University of Ottawa

Sustainability at the University of Ottawa Reposted from Academica Top Ten (7 April 2015) uOttawa campus plan focuses on green spaces, multi-use buildings The University of Ottawa has offered a glimpse of its campus of the future. The university's recently released master plan identifies its development goals for the next 20 years, including... More

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Job Posting: Election Organizer, Ecology Ottawa

April 1, 2015 | robbbarnes | 0 Comments Job Posting: Election Organizer Ecology Ottawa is looking for an Election Organizer to join a dynamic team. The Election Organizer will organize in a local riding within the context of the upcoming federal election. The goal is to promote environmental leadership at the federal level while strengthening... More

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Taylor Donaldson, “Bill C-51: You’re Probably A Terrorist”

Bill C-51: You’re Probably A Terrorist Taylor Donaldson Now let me get one thing straight: I am not a terrorist. Sure I have made some questionable decisions in the past (like eating an entire pizza at 4 am or watching Netflix for twenty hours straight just to name a few…) but I love my... More

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Sign Up for the Act on Climate March in Quebec!

Sign Up for the Act on Climate March in Quebec! Posted by Ben Powless 852cc on March 12, 2015 Join us and thousands of others who will make a historic trek to Quebec City on April 11 to demand that we Act on Climate! All of Canada’s premiers are heading to Quebec City at... More

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Smoke & Mirrors: The New Ethos of Fossil Fuel Divestment

Smoke & Mirrors: The New Ethos of Fossil Fuel Divestment Maya Stewart The stage was set. As I sat at the back of Carleton University’s cramped English lounge, I observed the nervous anticipation that filled the space around me. Perhaps no one had expected such a large turnout. It seemed somewhat amusing, the ritualistic... More

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Call for Papers: Poles Apart, Melting Together

POLES APART, MELTING TOGETHER: SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES CONFRONT THE ANTHROPOCENE Deadline: Deadline Extended: April 10, 2015 Contact: R. S. Deese, Lecturer, Boston University Email: rsdeese@bu.edu Phone: 857 998 7209 June 27th, 2015 at the Boston University Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning. DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS EXTENDED... More

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Climate Change and the Case for Fossil Free Divestment

Click here to see an information brief submitted to the Carleton University Pension Committee by Carleton Fossil Free... More

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Energy East and the Illogical Dance of Overwhelming Energy Consumption

Energy East and the Illogical Dance of Overwhelming Energy Consumption Marc St. Dennis Graduate Student, Carleton University   A couple of weeks ago I received an email from Barbara Leckie, a founder of The Carleton Climate Commons Working Group (CCC), asking if I would like to write a blog post for the website. It didn’t... More

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Open Season on Climate Science

Open season on climate science First posted on ipolitics By Chris Russill | Feb 17, 2015 8:57 pm On February 5, a B.C. judge found that several Canadian journalists and the National Post libeled Dr. Andrew Weaver by defaming his character during and after the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP) meeting in Copenhagen in 2009, the... More

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Naomi Klein Reading Group

The Carleton Working group on Climate Change invites you to participate in a Naomi Klein Reading Group   This group will discuss short selections from Naomi Klein’s This Changes Everything in three parts (meeting once in February, once in March, and once in April). We have selected this book because it is accessible, engaging,... More

Saturday, March 14, 2015

Perspectives on Fossil Fuel Divestment

The Carleton Working Group on Climate Change invites you to attend  Perspectives on Fossil Fuel Divestment: A Roundtable Can we have an impact on climate change by divesting from oil companies? Our speakers will explore this question from a range of perspectives and then open the floor to discussion. Speakers: Bilan Arte (Deputy Chair,... More

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