2023-2024 Noons for Now Series:
Watch for Noons for Now event pages for resource lists, blogs, and more.
- Fall 2023
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Oct 5: Sociology on Fire: North American Wildland Fires, Past, Present and Future
Oct 12: Conversations on Direct Action in Response to the Climate Crisis with On 2 Ottawa
Nov 9: The Climate Virus: Cross-Crisis Learning and Imaginative Futures
Nov 16: Ottawa’s Public Transit Crisis – Climate and Transit with Horizon Ottawa
Nov 23: From Greening to Caretaking: Heritage Buildings and Sustainability
- Winter 2024
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Jan 11: Playing for Change: Music and Environmental Activism
Jan 18: Shifting Perceptions: Arts-based Approaches to Climate Justice
Jan 25: Satellites & Climate Change: Turning the Gaze Around
Feb 1: A Graphic Novel About the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Feb 8: Bearing Witness to Crisis: Material Stories of Wildfire and Climate Change
Feb 15: Climate Collaborations
March 7: Photography, Local Wetland Restoration, the Changing Climate and Public Art
March 21: Economic Drivers of Climate Change
March 28: Reducing your Carbon Footprint- The Carbon Literacy Challenge
Past Events:
Click on each of our past event pages for resource lists, blogs, and more.
- Winter 2022:
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March 3: Climate Grief with Jennifer Baker (Sierra Club Canada) and Anne Raine (U of Ottawa)
March 10: Climate Storytelling with Nadia Bozak (Carleton U) and Catherine Bush (U of Guelph)
March 17: Climate Communication with Chris Russill (Carleton U)
March 24: The Ecological Crisis and the Great Acceleration with Jesse Vermaire (Carleton U)
March 31: Open Discussion
April 7: Repair and Climate Change with Laura Hall (Carleton U) and Alexis Shotwell (Carleton U)
April 14: Climate Change and Experiential Learning with Stefania Maggi (Carleton U) and Amin Sheickh-Ali (Carleton U)
April 21: Student Climate Activism with Steph Vienneau (Carleton U) and Alex Zelenski (Carleton U)
April 28: Open Discussion
- Spring 2022:
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May 5: Local Action and the Experimental Farm with Susan Ross (Carleton U), Diane McIntyre (Re-Imagine Ottawa) and Joel Harden
May 12: Climate Twitter with Genevieve Guenther (End Climate Silence) and Gal Beckerman (The Quiet Before, The Atlantic)
May 19: Do I Know Enough to Teach About Climate Change? with Emilie Cameron (Carleton U)
June 2: The IPCC Sixth Assessment Report with Sarah Burch (U Waterloo) and James Meadowcroft (Carleton U)
June 9: Kitchen Table Climate Conversations with Colleen Lynch (ClimateFast)
June 16: Open Discussion
June 23: Carleton Climate Response Committee
June 30: Regime of Obstruction: The Economic, Political, and Cultural Power of Fossil Capital in Canada with William Carrol (U Victoria)
- Fall 2022:
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Sept. 29: Land Acknowledgements and Decolonial Climate Justice with Rita Wong (Emily Carr University of Art + Design)
Oct. 6: Community-Engaged Climate Scholarship with Meera Karunananthan (Carleton U)
Oct. 13: Noons for Now: Climate Policy, Urban Infrastructure, and the Municipal Election (In-Person)
Oct. 20: Noons for Now: Decolonization and Climate Action with Decolonial Solidarity Ottawa-Gatineau
Nov. 3: Scientist Rebellion with Rose Abramoff
Nov. 10: Citation Politics with Christina Crespo (CLEAR Lab, Memorial University)
Nov. 17: History Rebellion with Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University) and Josh Goldstein (University of Southern California)
Dec. 1: United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) with Elisabeth Gilmore (Carleton U)
Dec. 8: ‘The role and responsibility of academia in the context of the planetary crisis – or what is to be done?’ with John Barry (Queen’s U Belfast)
- Winter 2023
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Jan. 26:Imagining Healthcare Alternatives in Ottawa: Community-Oriented Solutions focused on Environmental Justice with Barry Bruce, Deb Chapman (Reimagine Ottawa), and Sujit Sur (Carleton)
Feb. 2: Carbon and the City with Mike Fletcher (City of Ottawa)
Feb. 9: Using Heat Pumps to Reduce the Carbon Footprint of Homes in Ottawa with Bill Nuttle and Holly Bickerton
March 2: Climate Grief with Stefania Maggi (Carleton U) and Jennifer Baker (U of Ottawa)
March 9: Forms that Work: Organizing Ourselves for Effective Action on Climate with Caroline Levine (Cornell U)
March 16: Debt and Reparations with Armond Towns (Carleton U)
April 20: Desert Humanities with Veronika Kratz (Carleton U)
May 4: Social Media and Climate Movements with Merlyna Lim (Carleton U)
May 11: Research in the North with Danielle Dinovelli-Lang (Carleton U) and Karen Hébert (Carleton U)
May 18: Canada Needs Permafrost Climate Services with Stephan Gruber (Carleton U)
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