Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Job Opportunity: Undergraduate Research Assistantships (Apply by 10 July.)

Are you interested in working with Climate Commons? We’re looking to hire two undergraduate research assistants for the 2023-2024 year for the following positions: Communications Coordinator: Manage all of Climate Commons' social media (including Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter) Create graphics and posters for our events and initiatives Assist... More

Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Job Opportunity: Research Assistant for Climate Change Studies Project (Apply by 16 May)

Dr. Barbara Leckie is currently looking for a Research Assistant to work on an interdisciplinary climate change studies project in the literary and cultural studies field. The position will be 5 hours/week (approximately), starting immediately. If this sounds like something that you would be interested in, please fill out the form below by... More

Monday, April 24, 2023

Online Event: What Can Academic Climate Activists Do? (April 27)

What Can Academic Climate Activists Do? Instead of our regular Noons for Now this week, we join History Rebellion to hear Climate Commons' own Vladimir Diaz Cuellar and others speak about how to expand the climate movement into... More

Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Coming to Our Senses About Climate Change (April 4)

Coming to Our Senses About Climate Change Where: Mike's Place Pub When: April 4th, 5-7PM Climate Commons is organizing a social and community-building event that will feature speakers that bring together all five senses on the topic of climate change. We'll have more information coming soon, but in the meantime we're looking for musicians,... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Cross Canada Campus Tour: Film Screenings with Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival

  The Cross Canada Campus Tour is a free initiative part of the Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival with support from the Canada Council for the Arts that enables free film screenings for campus groups and classes. Your group or class can select a film, then book a date for your on... More

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Campaign: Speak Up Against the Clear-Cutting of Tewin Lands

News broke recently that hundreds and hundreds of trees have been clear cut from Tewin lands. This is unacceptable. Our ecosystem is too valuable. Ecology Ottawa has a petition and letter that you can send to Mayor Sutcliffe and the chairs of the Environment and Climate Change and the Planning and Housing committees. Ecology Ottawa is... More

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Climate Commons Stands in Solidarity with Dr. Rose Abramoff

In December last year, Earth Scientist Dr. Rose Abramoff,  was fired from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Climate Change Science Institute in the USA for unfurling a banner with Dr. Peter Kalmus (a climate scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab) that read “Out of the lab and into the streets” before a plenary talk in the meeting of... More

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

2023 Worldwide Climate Teach-In (week of March 29)

2023 Worldwide Climate Teach-In When? Wednesday, March 29th (or anytime that week!) Join the Carleton Climate Commons, History Rebellion, Scientist Rebellion and many other organizations in the upcoming WORLDWIDE TEACH-IN ON CLIMATE AND JUSTICE on and around March 29, 2023. Last year this event engaged an estimated 50,000 students at more than 300... More

Sunday, February 19, 2023

Webinar: The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change (March 2)

The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change When: March 2nd, 6:30-8PM (EST) Where: Online Check out this upcoming webinar organized by the Centre on Hate Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech: We warmly welcome you to join us for a The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far Right Conspiracy... More

Monday, February 13, 2023

Noons for Now: Open Discussion (Feb. 16)

Feb. 16: Noons for Now: Open Discussion 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 welcome, whether... More

Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Noons for Now: Using Heat Pumps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Homes in Ottawa with Bill Nuttle and Holly Bickerton (Feb. 9)

Feb. 9: Using Heat Pumps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Homes in Ottawa with Bill Nuttle and Holly Bickerton We will hear from two homeowners from Ottawa who have used air source heat pumps to reduce GHG emissions from older, pre-1950s homes. Electricity generated in Ontario is over 90 percent fossil-free. Replacing a... More

Monday, February 6, 2023

Call for Volunteers: Tree Planting along Bronson Ave (May 6)

An upcoming tree planting event is looking for student volunteers to participate. The city will be providing 240 trees to plant alongside instructions and equipment. The project is happening along Bronson Avenue, across from Carleton.   The event is scheduled to take place on Saturday, May 6th, starting at 9AM.   Volunteer spaces are... More

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

Call for Volunteers: Carleton-Based Decolonial Solidarity Affinity Group

Last fall, Climate Commons organized a teach-in event to hear from Decolonial Solidarity Ottawa-Gatineau. Decolonial Solidarity groups emerged in December 2021 following an online call to action from Indigenous land defenders who called for the support of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs who have been opposing construction of the Coastal... More

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, November 1, 2022

Job Opportunity: Climate Legacy Coordinator (closes Nov. 1)

Climate Legacy Coordinator About Climate Legacy Climate Legacy is a project of The Group of 78 that aims to engage and mobilize older Canadians through their organizations in climate action through their voice, their time and their money. Our vision is that Canada move steadily and effectively towards a zero net carbon economy in... 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

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