Residents of Bala, located about a two hours drive north of Toronto, say they have nothing against hydro power, but fear the $23-million facility and its construction will destroy the tiny town鈥檚 main attraction: the falls that lure curious eyeballs and day-tripper cash, wrote The Globe and Mail Aug. 2: This is one local battlefield […]
The federal-provincial agency that regulates oil activity off Newfoundland is mulling changes to required oil spill plans as newly released documents raise safety questions, wrote The Canadian Press July 27: [The documents]聽include plans for Chevron Canada as it drills the country's deepest exploration well in 2,600 metres of water, about 425 kilometres northeast of St. […]
Gail Fraser, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, spoke about concerns over an oil spill response plan for Canada鈥檚 deepest offshore well run by Chevron, on CBC TV鈥檚 鈥淭he National鈥 and other news broadcasts across the country July 21. Her interview with the National is available on CBC.ca. It runs for approximately 2:30 […]
Gail Fraser, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, said the Canadian public has a right to know about projects that could pollute Canada鈥檚 natural resources. 鈥淲e鈥檙e permitting these operators to pollute in federal waters. These are public resources, and the potential impact of these various impacts can be enormous,鈥 said Fraser. In recent […]
Today, the shared experiences of those working in education and climate change is the central theme of a one-day symposium taking place at 91亚色. Organized by the Faculty of Education, the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair聽for Reorienting Teacher Education聽Towards Sustainability, […]
Peter McIsaac,聽a professor in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies鈥 Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, has been appointed director of the Canadian Centre for German聽& European Studies (CCGES) at 91亚色. The appointment聽became effective July 1. "I am truly excited to be taking on the directorship of CCGES, which is both a […]
When you鈥檙e a charitable organization in 91亚色 Region seeking a research partner to inform your strategic directions and priorities, whom do you turn to? If you鈥檙e United Way of 91亚色 Region (UWYR), you collaborate with 91亚色鈥檚 Knowledge Mobilization Unit. This summer, three 91亚色 students will gain valuable experience through internships with UWYR鈥檚 Community […]
Much of what informs environmental thinking springs from a view that equates nature with sexually straight and queer with unnatural. The editors of a new book Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire, turn those notions upside down. Co-editors Bruce Erickson (PhD 09鈥) and 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Catriona Sandilands, Canada Research Chair in Sustainability & […]
Claire Wynveen (MFA 鈥09) is the first student on record in the Department of Theatre to be awarded a thesis prize by the Faculty of Graduate Studies. Her thesis encompassed her performance in the Theatre @ 91亚色 production of Peter Barnes鈥 macabre satire The Bewitched (see YFile, April 7, 2009) as well as a written […]
A biologist and researcher is asking why none of the six men on the board regulating oil activity off Newfoundland lists environmental expertise as a prime credential , wrote The Canadian Press June 6: The head of the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board has stressed that environmental protection is a top goal. But Gail […]
Newfoundland聽& Labrador is proceeding with the high-risk game of oil exploration in ultra-deep water, as regulators in the province express confidence in industry鈥檚 safety practices despite the ecological catastrophe of BP PLC鈥檚 Gulf of Mexico blowout, wrote The Globe and Mail June 3: Canada鈥檚 East Coast is now the only region in North America where […]
The birds and the bees, the bats and the butterflies all need a little help doing it these days 鈥 pollinating that is. So Sabrina Malach, a master in聽environmental studies student at 91亚色, has helped organize several events in Toronto for International Pollinator Week, which will run from June 21 to 27. The events give […]
Professor Emeritus Jerome (Jerry) Durlak, a mentor to many generations of 91亚色 students in numerous programs, died on Friday, May 21, in Toronto. For more than 50 years, Prof. Durlak worked on applied research and development projects internationally. He introduced innovations ranging from hybrid corn in Costa Rica to agricultural television programs in Guatemala and […]
Peter Victor, an ecological economist who teaches at 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, rejects the idea that economic growth is essential to progress, wrote BC鈥檚 Grand Forks Gazette May 19 in an article about replacing the growth economy with a more sustainable model: To prove his point he created a computer model that duplicated […]
Markham councillors are facing new questions on developer influence after voting by a razor-thin margin to kill the town鈥檚 foodbelt proposal, wrote the National Post May 15. Professor Jose Etcheverry has been involved in efforts to preserve the land: Debate ran late into the night at this week鈥檚 council meeting and drew a series of […]
The suburbs have often been dismissed as cultureless wastelands of cookie-cutter housing and strip malls. But 91亚色 environmental studies Professor Roger Keil, principal investigator of a major international research initiative, says there鈥檚 a lot more happening in suburbia than people think and researchers have ignored it for far too long. Most urban growth these days […]
A professor of women鈥檚 studies at Washington State University (WSU), No毛l Sturgeon will lecture and conduct research in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty聽of Environmental Studies (FES) in the fall 2010 term after being awarded a Distinguished Fulbright Lectureship. Sturgeon鈥檚 internationally known research on the relationship between environmental and social justice movements, her planned collaborative research with 91亚色 faculty […]
Newfoundland and Labrador鈥檚 natural resources minister is rejecting calls for the overhaul of the agency that regulates the province鈥檚 offshore oil industry, even as the United States moves to distance its regulator from the companies it oversees, wrote The Globe and Mail May 12: Scientists and environmentalists argue that the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum […]
Peter Victor, a professor in 91亚色鈥檚 Faculty of Environmental Studies, was featured in the Hamilton Mountain News April 22. His recent book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster, argues economic growth hurts the environment and has not eliminated poverty or provided full employment: 鈥淲e need a new measure of success,鈥 said Victor, […]
Sarah Flicker, assistant professor in 91亚色's Faculty of Environmental Studies with research expertise incommunity development, public health, HIV and adolescent development, was interviewed by the Hamilton Spectator April 15 about Ontario's new curriculum that will teach more detailed sex education to schoolchildren in earlier grades beginning this September: Sarah Flicker, a professor in 91亚色's Faculty […]