Amy Miller / Canada / 2012 / 84 ' / English - Spanish / S.T. English
WHAT: Screening of THE CARBON RUSH
WHEN: Tuesday, November 6, 6:45PM
WHERE: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West, Toronto
COST: Suggested donation $2-$10
INFO: cinemapolitica.org/bloor
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook event
SYNOPSIS: Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil.
What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they affecting the people who live in these countries?
THE CARBON RUSH takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. So far their voices have gone unheard in the cacophony surrounding this multi-billion carbon industry, nicknamed "green gold" by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support themselves. Dozens of Campesinos have been assassinated.
THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and shows the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature reveals the true cost of carbon trading and shows who stands to gain and who stands to lose.
Click this link to view the trailer for the film and read more.
At the GTA Climate Action Summit on August 27 it was agreed that our groups should have a common "ask" on the following topics:
Since then Paul Antze, Michael Brothers, Ian Edwards, Judy Vellend and Patricia Warwick have been meeting regularly to research carbon pricing strategies with a view to arriving at a recommended policy.
Now we want to discuss the pros and cons of the main methods of pricing carbon and invite input from the participants. We hope to arrive at a consensus on a policy that our various groups can support and that we can eventually propose to the Climate Action Network.
We are planning on holding the meeting during the week of November 19. Suggested starting times are either 6 pm or 7 pm on weekdays and 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 pm on Saturday. If you are interested in attending, please use this Doodle to indicate all of the times you would be available http://www.doodle.com/6i8mwsyrcna3ww73 or RSVP to sum...@dosomethingaboutit.ca.If you already completed the Doodle, thank you and read no further. If you haven't got around to it and would like to participate in the meeting please respond as soon as possible because we need to book a room and for that we need an idea of how many people to expect.
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GTA Climate Action Summit Carbon Pricing Committee
A day-long grassroots conference in Toronto on Saturday, Nov. 17 will discuss plans by Enbridge Inc. to pipe dangerous tar sands crude from Sarnia to Montreal through Line 9. The event, The Tar Sands Come to Ontario: Stop Line 9, will be held from 10a.m. to 5p.m. at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.
Featured guests will include Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Art Sterritt, (Executive Director, B.C. Coastal First Nations), along with Wes Elliott (Haudenosaunee land defender) and Vanessa Gray (Aamjiwnaang First Nation).
Our Coast, Our Decision: Maximizing Your Impact at the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel Hearings |
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A Fast and Vigil for Climate Justice2012 Nov 23 - 24Vigil on Friday, November 23, 7:00pmCIBC Hall - MUSC 319McMaster University Student Centre
School of the Environment, University of Toronto
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 4:10 p.m.
Room 1190, BAHEN CENTRE, 40 St. George Street
STEVE EASTERBROOK, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Systems Thinking and Climate Change: Understanding the Dynamics of Societal Inertia”
(abstract below)
No registration or fee required; all are welcome. Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475; or environmen...@utoronto.ca.
Please see directions to the location below.
Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St., 1 block west, north of College Street.
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ABSTRACT: To the general public, solutions to climate change are typically presentedeither as a set of personal behavioral changes (e.g. fly less, waste less, change your
light bulbs), or a question of global governance (e.g. international agreement on
emissions reduction targets). Yet very little progress has been made in either of
these two spheres. In this talk, I will use the conceptual toolkit of systems thinking
to explore the problem. I will focus on three examples: (1) the role of feedback loops
in accelerating or preventing change in social and ecological systems, (2) the role
of faulty mental models in constraining our ability to manage complex system interactions,
and (3) the role of boundary setting in limiting which parts of a system we pay attention to.
These ideas shed light on the likely success of different types of action on climate
change. For example, efforts to improve energy efficiency can be defeated by a feedback
loop focused on increasing consumption, because we merely spend the freed up resource on
more energy intensive activities (i.e. we buy more gadgets). Similarly, inertia in
geophysical, political, and infrastructure systems causes lags of decades between any
action on climate change and the noticeable effects of that action. We hypothesize that
a failure to comprehend this inertia is a major factor in complacency on climate action.
A key conclusion from this analysis is that we need to do a better job of incorporating
systems thinking into communication about climate change, and throughout all levels of
our education system. I will conclude the talk with an overview of our current work on
the teaching of systems thinking, in which we are making use of a mix of systems games
in the classroom, systems modeling exercises, and online simulations, to give students
a deeper understanding of the dynamics of complex systems.
BRIEF BIO: Steve Easterbrook is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto.
He received his Ph.D. (1991) in Computing from Imperial College in London (UK), after which
he joined the faculty at the School of Cognitive and Computing Science, University of Sussex.
In 1995 he moved to the US to lead the research team at NASA´s Independent Verification and
Validation (IV&V) Facility in West Virginia, where he investigated software verification on
the Space Shuttle Flight Software, the International Space Station, the Earth Observation
System, and several planetary probes. He moved to the University of Toronto in 1999.
His research interests range from modeling and analysis of complex adaptive systems to the
socio-cognitive aspects of team interaction. His current research is in climate informatics,
where he studies how climate scientists develop computational models to improve their understanding
of earth systems and climate change, and the broader question of how that knowledge is shared
with other communities. In the summer of 2008, he was a visiting scientist at the UK Met
Office Hadley Centre, and in 2010 a visiting scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colorado; the Max-Planck- Institute for Meteorology, in Hamburg, and
the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace in Paris.
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THUR FEBRUARY 28, 4:10 p.m.
Room 1190, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street.
Please see directions to the location below. Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St.,
1 block west, north of College Street.
KUE YOUNG, Professor, TransCanada Chair in Aboriginal Health, Dalla Lana School of
Public Health, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
“Health and Environment in Circumpolar Indigenous People"
(abstract below)
No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
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ABSTRACT: This lecture introduces students to the circumpolar region and its indigenous populations.The overall health status in terms of several key comparable indicators is discussed, highlighting the substantial
disparities that exist across populations and regions. Environmental health problems can be broadly divided into
"old" problems such as sanitation, water supply, solid waste disposal and housing - issues for which effective
solutions exist but have not been resolved in many localities. Superimposed on these old problems are "new"
ones such as the long range transport of contaminants and warming of the Arctic - these are high profile issues
but much is still guesswork, and their health impact difficult to assess. It should be recognized that northern
indigenous peoples are resilient and adaptable, and are not helpless victims whose fate resides in decision-makers
far away. Climate change in historical times had been the drivers of culture change, and northern peoples need
strategies to "benefit" from climate change.
BRIEF BIO: Kue Young received his MD from McGill, MSc from U of T and PhD in biological anthropology
from Oxford. He is a Royal College-certified specialist in community medicine. He devoted much of his career
in primary care, health administration, and academic research in indigenous communities in northern Canada
and other countries. He was Head of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of
Manitoba prior to his coming to U of T in 2002 as the TransCanada Chair in Aboriginal Health. For his
contributions he was inducted a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2009 and Member
of the Order of Canada in 2010.
This is to confirm that the next meeting of the Toronto Climate Action Network (TCAN) will be:
Saturday, March 16
2:00-4:00 pm
Metro Hall, Room 314
(Note: The meeting will NOT be on March 9th as earlier mentioned.)
On the 16th, the transitional team will present a proposal for TCAN’s organizational structure, e.g. how do groups become members, what does membership mean, how are decisions made, how can projects come about etc.
Although this may not sound super exciting, it is a critical step in getting TCAN set up so that we can quickly move on to some good collaborative work. We hope to have as many groups as possible represented at the meeting.
If there are other items you would like to see added to the agenda, please let us know.
March 21
Richard Heinberg in Toronto!Thursday, March 21, 7:15 – 9:30 p.m.
Earth Sciences Building, room 1050, 22 Willcocks Street, University of TorontoI’m sure we’re all ready to welcome Spring on March 20th, but I'm even more excited to welcome Richard Heinberg on the 21st! Heinberg is the senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and I don’t know if there would even be a Transition Towns movement if not for his work. As far as Peak Oil thinkers and speakers, he’s not a big deal; he’s THE big deal. Come and see his talk "SNAKE OIL: How the Petroleum Industry’s Misleading Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future" on March 21st!
Info: Transition Toronto
Free public lecture at 3-5pm on March 14th, 2013 in Room 044 (east end of the building in the basement) at University College, 15 King?s College Circle, Toronto, ON by
Jose Etcheverry , Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Studies, York University
on
Choosing Energy Sources and Incentivizing Conservation
Synopsis
The pros and cons of various energy sources. Energy pricing. Wind power
and bird population. Harmful effects of high dams. Methane fracking.
Health effects of coal use. Underwater turbine as alternative to damming
rivers for power. Earthquakes and fracking.
This lecture is part of the series Confronting a Nuclear Age which is co-sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace and Voice of Women for Peace.
Join us for a free public lecture at 7-9pm on March 14th, 2013 in Room 144 (east end of the building on the ground floor) at University College, 15 King?s College Circle, Toronto, ON by:
Harriet Friedmann, Professor of Geography, University of Toronto
on
From ?Feeding the World? to Sustainable Farming
Bio
Harriet Friedmann is Professor of Geography and Planning, Sociology and the Munk School of Global Studies. Her research interests share a common passion for understanding the history and possible futures of food and agriculture. Markets, investments, technologies, knowledges, policies, politics, rebellions, inequalities, international specialization and trade, diets, cuisines, technologies, farming systems, relations of production (family, gender, race, and waged labour), commodity complexes, international (dis)agreements, and health of humans and ecosystems, are all grist to her mill. Friedmann tries to make sense of all this through the historical perspective of ?food regimes,? which are periods of roughly 25 years of relative stability in patterns of accumulation, inter-state and class relations, and which give way to equally enduring periods of confusion, conflict, and experimentation until a new regime constellates from some of the experiments.
Friedmann?s recent work has focused on the regional ?foodshed? of southern Ontario, one of many which are emerging across the globe, particularly efforts to link and renew cultures of farming, selling, cooking, storing, sharing, and eating to reflect the diasporic layers of populations in Ontario, from aboriginal to today?s immigrants. Friedmann is discovering how to both research and be part of the ?Community of Food Practice? working towards justice and sustainability through food system renewal; her provisional role is a ?facilitator of reflection.? She is a past Chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council and a present member.
She is the author of ? Food Regimes: International Political Economy of Food. Tokyo: Kobushi Shobo, 2006 (in Japanese. Translator, Professor Masao Watanabe, with Michiko Kida).
About this lecture series
Click here for videos from previous lectures
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace and Voice of Women for Peace.
ENERGY TECHNOLOGY:
INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW OF ENERGY STORAGE
Are you interested in renewable energy and want to meet a world-class expert that is working to ensure that renewables can be used to their full potential?
DR. DIRK UWE SAUER, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, Germany
Dr. Uwe will discuss his research on renewable energy and the existing policy strategies to advance the widespread use of storage in the electricity, thermal and gas sectors.
Friday March 15, 10:00 to 11:00 am
Room 1220, main floor (west end), Bahen Centre for Information Technology
40 St. George St., north of College St. University of Toronto
Google map: http://goo.gl/maps/oYxeS
Presented by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; and
School of the Environment, University of Toronto.
For more information, please contact Professor Jose Etcheverry, rej...@yorku.ca
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
School of the Environment, University of Toronto
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THUR MARCH 21, 4:10 p.m.
Room 1190, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street.
Please see directions to the location below. Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St.,
1 block west, north of College Street.
BLAKE POLAND, Associate Professor, Director Collaborative Program in Community Development
(brief bio below)
“Community Resilience in the Face of an Uncertain Future: Understanding an Emerging
JOURNEY for EARTH Walkers: An Idle No More EventFriday, June 14, 2013 – Friend’s House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto – 6:30 pm
Toronto’s Friend’s House welcomes this group of 5 Dene Nation Walkers from Saskatchewan who are making their way across Canada to Toronto, and on to Ottawa for June 21st National Aboriginal Day. Learn about the devastating attack on our Environment – Land, Air, Water - through Harper’s Omnibus Bills and the illegal international deal known as FIPA, and the disastrous consequences for Earth if treaty obligations to protect the land are diminished. Their territory in Saskatchewan is home to Canada’s uranium extraction, and possible home to Canada’s nuclear waste.
Hosted by Quaker Peace and Social Action Committee - Lyn Adamson, 416-731-6605
EARTH WALKERS: Bryan Whitstone, Geron Paul, Nancy Greyeyes, Rueben Maurice, and Sharon Veley,
FOOD DONATIONS WELCOME! - pre-prepared, eg chopped veggies, fruit, bread, cheese, dips, or desserts. THANKS!
UTSC Summer Institute on Applied Climate Change: Aug 6 to 9
Applied Climate Change: Gaining Practical Skills for Climate Change Adaptation. At the University of Toronto Scarborough, from August 6th to 9th 2013.
This course provides an overview of the knowledge, tools and resources needed to become more effective leaders and managers in adapting to climate change. During the four-day intensive session, participants will develop practical skills through lectures, step-by-step approaches, case studies and hands-on activities. As part of the course, each participant will complete, and carry away, a climate changes impacts and adaptation study for their own region of geographic interest that will include: how the climate has changed in the past; how the climate is projected to change in the future; how these changes have/will impact the region; and how best to adapt to these anticipated impacts.
The deadline to register is July 10, 2013. For additional details or to RSVP, please visit: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/climatelab.
Martin Luther King: A Global Perspective
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/565654316813532/Bio
Paul R. Dekar is Niswonger Professor of Evangelism and Missions, Memphis Theological Seminary. He is author of Creating the Beloved Community: A History of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the United States (2005) and Holy Boldness: Practices of an Evangelistic Lifestyle (2004).
About this lecture series
Click here for full list of the 2013/2014 Vital Discussions of Human Security lecture series events: http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/vital-discussions-of-human-security-fall-2013-spring-2014
Click here for videos from previous lectures: http://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace and Voice of Women for Peace.
Please spread this notice around. We look forward to seeing you at University College!
Come to the first Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee meeting for the year on Tuesday, September 17th from 1-3:00 pm at the GSU Executive Office at 16 Bancroft Avenue! Chaired by your Civics and Environment Commissioner, Susanne Waldorf, we will begin to get-to-know the other members of the committee and start to build a joint vision for our work in the coming year. The purpose of the EJS Committee is to make UofT a more sustainable community by advocating on issues of environmental justice and promoting sustainable policies and practices both on and off campus. If you are unable to attend, but would like to be involved in the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee, please email Susanne at civ...@utgsu.ca.
Ulead Conference
U of T student groups! Come out and meet student leaders from across the campus, attend leadership workshops, and discover opportunities for collaboration at the annual Ulead Conference on Thursday September 26th, 1-9pm at Hart House. This is a free event and open to all U of T student leaders involved with campus groups.- Over 40 student groups to meet
- Free Conference (refundable registration-deposit required)
- Workshops include: Social Media, Funding & Sponsorship, Leadership & Management, and more
- Free Dinner
- Receive a Ulead Conference Certificate
- Earn 2 Ulead Points used towards office space eligibility
The event has limited capacity.
Register today at: http://uoft.me/ulc
Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, Professor Emerita of Political Science at University of Western Ontario
on
Neither
Conflict nor “Use it or Lose it”: Canada’s Arctic
Extended Continental Shelf
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/358599977606747/
Bio
Dr. Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and Professor Emerita of International relations and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at Western University.
LOCATION: Room ES 142(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
CHRIS KENNEDY, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Past Performance and Future Needs for Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure”
(abstract below)
Please
note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around
3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
Seminars are FREE. No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation. Please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx
for schedule updates, abstracts and
speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or environment.seminars@utoronto.ca).
For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK for info and rates.
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ABSTRACT: This paper explores the investment implications of moving to low-carbon,
climate-resilient infrastructure (Kennedy and Corfee-Morlot, 2013). It begins with
analysis of gross fixed capital formation and decarbonisation trends to examine past
performance of OECD countries in reducing GHG emissions from 1997 to 2007. Many OECD
countries made progress in decoupling GHG emissions from infrastructure investment in
residential buildings, and to a lesser extent from power and industry, but increased
efforts are required, especially in the transportation sector. The analysis highlights
the need to accelerate the pace and scale of change to reverse GHG emission trends to bring
into reach ambitious climate policy goals. It then assesses future global infrastructure
needs under low-carbon and business-as-usual (BAU) global warming scenarios, and
the incremental costs of going “low-carbon” are estimated to be small relative to
the magnitude of the BAU infrastructure investment needs. Global infrastructure needs for
2015–2020, including buildings and transportation vehicles, are approximately 6.7 trillion
USD/year under BAU. Incremental costs of low-carbon infrastructure are of the order −70
to +450 billion USD/year. Achieving climate resilient infrastructure may +add costs, but
there is potentially synergistic overlap with low-carbon attributes. Although estimates
are incomplete, the technical and financial inter-dependency between infrastructure systems
suggests the potential to generate infrastructure investment to support a “virtuous cycle”
of low-carbon growth.
BRIEF BIO: Christopher Kennedy is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering
at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses in Infrastructure Economics,
Engineering Ecology, and the Design of Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities. His work
involves applying principles of Industrial Ecology to the design of urban infrastructure,
including buildings, water systems, and urban transportation. Amongst his publications are
studies of urban metabolism, greenhouse gas emissions from global cities and processes
for developing sustainable urban transportation systems. His wider work includes contributions
to probability theory, regional economics and engineering education. His book The Evolution
of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth was published by University of
Toronto Press in 2011. Chris has worked and studied in Europe and North America. He holds
qualifications in Civil Engineering (Imperial & Waterloo), Economics (Warwick) and
Business (Toronto). In 2004/05, Chris was a visiting professor at Oxford University and
ETH Zürich. In 2011/12, he was seconded to the OECD in Paris, to work on Cities, Green
Growth and Policies for Encouraging Investment in Low Carbon Infrastructure. He has
conducted professional work for the Ontario Ministry of Finance, Infrastructure Canada,
Clinton Climate Initiative, California Energy Commission, US National Science Foundation,
UN-HABITAT and the World Bank. Chris is Director of the Cities and Engineering Management
Program at University of Toronto and is President–elect of the International Society
for Industrial Ecology.
LOCATION: Room ES 142(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
BETH SAVAN, Senior Lecturer Emerita, School of the Environment, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Accelerating the Adoption of Cycling for Transportation in Toronto: Tools to Get More People onto Bikes”
(abstract below)
At this seminar, Beth Savan will be presented with the Delta Management Group 2014 Clean16 and Clean50 awards in
recognition for her contribution to sustainable development in the education category.
For more information please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/News/SavanClean50.aspx
Please
note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around
3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
GLOBALIZATION, LAW & JUSTICE WORKSHOP
presents
Daniel Cole
Indiana University
The Problem of Shared Irresponsibility in International Climate Law
Daniel H. Cole, an internationally recognized environmental law and economics scholar, joined the Indiana Law faculty in 2011. Most of his writings are at the intersection of the law, economics, and politics of property, natural resources law, land use, and environmental protection. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law. Cole is the author of seven books and more than forty articles. His works have published in England, France, Italy, and China, as well as the United States. An award-winning teacher, Cole has taught courses including climate law and policy, environmental law, international environmental law, land use, law and economics, natural resources law, property, and property theory. Cole sits on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, and is a founding member of both the Midwest Law and Economics Association and the Society for Environmental Law and Economics. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall (College for Advanced Study), Cambridge, and has served as a Visiting Scholar in the Faculties of Law and Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. In the fall of 2001, Cole was the John S. Lehmann Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Before moving to Bloomington, he was the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Refreshments will be provided.
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Events Coordinator
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
78 Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2C5
Tel 416-978-6767
Fax 416-978-2648THURSDAYS at 4:10 p.m.
Room 257, University College, 15 King’s College Circle
THUR JAN 23 SARAH WAKEFIELD, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto
Healthy Public Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens: Stories from the Trenches
THUR JAN 30 KAREN MORRISON, Assistant Professor, Population Health University of Guelph
Watersheds as Settings for Health and Well-being: Ecohealth in Practice
THUR FEB 6 LOUISE AUBIN, Manager, Health Hazards & Environmental Health, Peel Public Health
Reducing Systemic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Peel
THUR FEB 13 MICHELLE MURPHY, Professor, Department of History & Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
How not to have a Sex Panic: Reframing the Politics of Reproductive Toxins
THUR FEB 27 STEPHANIE GOWER, Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health
Health Evidence in Municipal Decision-Making: Health Impact Assessment of a Proposed Expansion to Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport
THUR MAR 6 STEPHEN SCHARPER, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UofT Mississauga and School of the Environment
A Tree on Trial: Health and the Urban Canopy, or Saving the Urban Forest One Tree—and Lawsuit—at a Time
THUR MAR 13 JEFF BROOK, Senior Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada
Black Carbon Personal Exposures and Cardiovascular Effects in Beijing, China
THUR MAR 20 DERRICK MACFABE, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology (Neuroscience) & Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Disabilities), Director, Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research group, University of Western Ontario
Bugs, Bowels, Brains and Behaviour: The role of the Gut Microbiome in Neurodevelopmental/ Neuropsychiatric Disorders
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LOCATION: Room ES 149(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
GORD PERKS, City Councillor, Ward 14, Parkdale High Park
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Environmental Activism and Policy: From the Front Line”
(abstract below)
Please
note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around
3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
Seminars are FREE. No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation. Please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx
for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or environment.seminars@utoronto.ca).
For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK for info and rates.
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ABSTRACT: To be presented at the lecture
BRIEF BIO: Gord Perks was elected to represent Parkdale-High Park in 2006. Gord has an impressive record on environmental initiatives beginning in 1987. With such environmental organizations as Pollution Probe, Greenpeace Canada, the Better Transportation Coalition, and the Toronto Environmental Alliance, Gord’s emphasis has been on waste reduction and public transit. He is the principal author of the Canadian Green Consumer Guide, one of Canada’s best selling non-fiction books. Gord Perks has been the Environment columnist for Eye Weekly and also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto’s Environmental Studies Department. In addition to his work as a City Councillor, Gord’s vision for the city extends beyond ward boundaries. Gord led the fight to get the TTC to adopt the Ridership Growth Strategy, making Dufferin, King and Queen priority streets for improved transit servicing. Similarly, he was fundamental to the expansion of the City of Toronto’s blue and grey box program. He was successful in his fight to introduce a pesticide by-law that banned the use of cosmetic use of dangerous chemicals on all outdoor properties.
ABSTRACT:
That we are standing on a threshold in the evolution
of our species, is virtually unquestionable. Our sciences, peering
carefully at the relationship between humans and the planet, are telling
us, we have some very, very big problems bearing down on us. Each of
our disciplines are being challenged to overcome
the problem of Change – how to change humans and our systems, in order
to salvage a livable world. This question of change is approached from
many different perspectives, which is in fact, a key strength of
environmental approaches – their diversity is their
strength. But it is difficult to change larger institutional structures
without a more unified voice, putting the environmental community into a
moment of uncertainty and reorganization, as it struggles with how to
navigate the trade-off between integration
and diversity. Dr. Dolderman will examine the Psychology underlying this
challenge, and propose some ways forward, in the hopes of stimulating
further conversation on the issue.
BRIEF
BIO: Dr. Dan Dolderman is an Environmental
Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto. His work
focuses on environmental activism and personal fulfillment, stemming
from a lifelong passion for helping people reach their full potential
and cultivate a deeper awareness of the living
world, two life paths that are intimately intertwined. Dan’s past work
has involved helping to create environmental programs at the University
of Toronto, and working with organizations such as Free The Children to
help inspire people to become active advocates
for an ethical society. Currently, his work is focused on helping to
catalyze a grassroots social movement, the Unstoppable Snowball, in the
hopes of revitalizing democratic participation across Canada concerning
climate change. |
MEMORIAL LECTURES SERIES
Wednesdays and Tuesday 4:10 p.m.
LOCATION: shown below for each lecture*
TUE MAR 18 Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture:
ERICH VOGT, Sessional Lecturer, School of the EnvironmentYou might be interested in this free upcoming event at the ROM:
Canada’s Carbon Bubble and the risks it poses: James Leaton talk
SPACE IS LIMITED. To register, please visit Canada’s Carbon Bubble and sign up.
Friday, November 21, 2014
Dr. Jerome Whitington (National University of Singapore) Carbon as a metric of the human: an anthropology of climate change by the numbers Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Toronto 2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St.
This talk describes research on climate change, carbon accounting and carbon markets through an anthropology of what Jane Guyer et al have called the inventive frontier of numberwork. By understanding how human-atmosphere exchanges are translated into information, and thereby become subject to creative manipulations, it tracks an emerging ontology of atmosphere that is linked up with changing status of the human and its capacities for planetary transformation. This approach implies breaking with the literature's view of numbers as rationalization or as governmentality, to foreground the hopeful, transformative and often speculative investment of people who use numbers to diagnose, intervene in and profit from a complex historical moment. The ethnography was carried out with carbon accounting practitioners in Thailand, Beijing and North America. The results highlight the potential for an anthropology concerned with the planetary stakes of anthropogenic climate change.
To register for this event, please go to http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/events/colloquium-jerome-whitington/
TARA ZUPANCIC, MPH, Director, Habitus Research
(brief bio below)
“Can Green Space Support Cooler Cleaner, More Equitable Urban Communities?
A Report of the David Suzuki Foundation "
(abstract below)
No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Please visit
www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or at
environment.seminars@utoronto.ca
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ABSTRACT: Unprecedented urban growth has intensified health risks associated with extreme heat exposure and air pollution. Green spaces have a natural capacity to provide fresh air, reduce surface temperatures, cool urban air and provide relief from heat stress. Insufficient or poor quality green space in disadvantaged neighbourhoods can increase health burdens related to heat and air pollution. This session will examine the findings of a systematic review of the David Suzuki Foundation on how specific forms of green space can provide cooler, cleaner neighbourhoods for over 80% of Canadians who live in urban communities. The concept of environmental equity and why it is essential to urban green space planning will also be explored.
BRIEF BIO: Tara is the Director of Habitus Research. For almost 15 years, she has focused on environmental health research and policy that emphasizes equity and the priorities of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups She promotes policy approaches that combine scientific evidence with the knowledge and lived experiences of communities facing serious environmental health challenges. Tara has led both national and international forums to set research and policy agendas, including the Bonding Through Bars International Roundtable at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (UBC) and Knowledge Leaders in Children's Environmental Health, a two-year national program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Tara is the co-founder of the Centre for Environmental Health Equity where she served as Associate Director until 2013. She is the co-author of one of the largest systematic reviews on Canadian environmental health research, which formed the basis of a pan-Canadian strategy on health equity and the environment. tara.zupancic@habitusreasearch.ca |
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REMAINING SEMINARS IN THIS SERIES THIS TERM:
THUR FEB 26 PETER BERRY, PhD, Senior Policy Analyst, Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada
THUR MAR 5
HOWARD HU, MD, ScD, Dean of Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
THUR MAR 12 DAYNA NADINE SCOTT, LLB, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Osgood Hall Law School and GUS VAN HARTEN, LLB, PhD, Associate Professor, Osgood Hall Law School
THUR MAR 19
FRANZ HARTMANN, PhD, Executive Director, Toronto Environmental Alliance |
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