What's New
January 18, 2013
Collaborative Environment and Sustainability Program
Current Western students who are in their first year of
graduate degree study in a research-based program may be eligible to enrol in the Collaborative Environment and Sustainability enrichment program. The submission deadline for new applicants (January entrance) is January 18, 2013. More information
January 2013 - Happy New Year!
The Centre for Environment and Sustainability offices will re-open in January 2013.
December 4, 2012
Environmental Exposition to be held in the University Community Centre Atrium
Environmental EXPO
University Community Centre Atrium
Tuesday Dec. 4th, 2012 – 9:30am to 4:00pm
Students in the first-year Environmental Issues course (1021F/G) at Western and Huron University College want to invite you to the presentation of their final group projects. The Environmental Expo will be held on Tuesday Dec. 4th, 2012in the UCC Atrium from 9:30am to 4:00pm. This exciting exposition will include 35 compelling posters or videos covering over 20 topics that confront some of the difficult environmental issues we currently face. The posters are the result of dedicated research from group members on their topic followed by collaboration to tie the complete story of each environmental issue together. The students will be available to answer any questions you might have about their projects. The topics are diverse and will educate, inspire and challenge the audience and promote conversation about these timely environmental issues. Some of the topics you can expect to learn about are:
Urban Burden: Impacts of Urbanization
Dude, Where’s my Habitat?: Habitat Loss
Say NO to Degrading H20!: Impacts of Water Depletion
It’s Getting Hot in Here: Climate Change and Global Warming
Our World Modified: Genetically Modified Organisms
There is something to interest everyone at the Environmental Expo. Our students extend an invitation to everyone in the Western Community, the City of London and area, and members of government and business to attend. Admission is free. Don’t miss out!
Brought to you by: Centre for Environment & Sustainability and Huron College
For further information please contact the 1021F/G Instructor: Dr. Christie Stewart
November 2012
MES Program Information Sessions for Applicants
Interested in learning more about Western's Masters in Environment and Sustainability (MES) Program? Information sessions are suitable for those interested in application to the program beinging September 2013. Presentation followed by Q&A.
MES Info Sessions
4:30 - 5:30 Thursday, November 15, Natural Sciences Rm 12
6:30 - 8:00 Friday, November 16, Natural Sciences Rm 12
October 24, 2012
MES Program Alumna Earns Global Award of Excellence
Dayna Linley, MES' 08 has been selected as a recipient of the 2012 Responsible Investment Independent Research Award in the Individual Analyst category. Read more (Thomson Reuters press-release)
October 1, 2012
Appointment of Co-Directors, Centre for Environment and Sustainability
The Dean of the Faculty of Science, Dr. Charmaine Dean welcomes Gordon McBean and Dan Shrubsole as the new co-Directors for the Centre of Environment and Sustainability, effective October 1, 2012:
Director, Academic Programs and Administration
Professor Shrubsole received an undergraduate degree from Laurentian University (1980, Nipissing College Campus), a Master’s degree from Wilfrid Laurier University (1983) and a PhD from the University of Waterloo (1989). He has been at Western since 1988. He is Professor in the Department of Geography and has served as Chair of that Department since 2005. He has also served as Acting co-Director of the Environment and Sustainability Program at Western (2009-2010). Read more...
Director, Research and External Relations
Gordon McBean has built on a background of research on the physics of atmosphere and oceans systems to become Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences at The University of British Columbia, then Assistant Deputy Minister in Environment Canada, and now, since 2000, a Professor of Geography and Political Science and Director of Policy Studies at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction at Western. Read more....
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Coming November 2, 2012
Timothy Morton "Unground, Underground, Ground Under"
November 2, 2012 Conron Hall, 5 pm
The current ecological crisis ungrounds human being by causing human history to intersect decisively with geological time, marked by the coinage of the term Anthropocene to refer to a period that started around 1790 with human industry's deposition of a thin layer of carbon in Earth's crust, and continued after 1945 with the Great Acceleration, marked by the deposition of a thin layer of radioactive materials. So much for "unground" and what lies "underground." But there is more. This moment witnesses a quake in being, a being-quake, not simply a shaking of the ground beneath our feet. It is the "end of the world" qua horizon or background, and the inception of what I call coexistence, a mesh of intimacy between humans and nonhumans, whether we like it or not. In this paper I shall attempt some preliminary mapping of this strange new psychic, social and philosophical space in which we find ourselves "ground under," caught among alien objects in a reality that has no outside.
Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, is the author of Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (forthcoming from Open Humanities Press), The Ecological Thought (Harvard UP, 2010), and Ecology without Nature (Harvard UP, 2007). Morton is currently writing Dark Ecology and Buddhaphobia, two studies of philosophy and culture in the global nineteenth century. He has published seven other books, all of which are about issues and authors in the Romantic period (Frankenstein, Percy Shelley, Romantic-period food and eating, radicalism). Professor Morton is the author of over eighty essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, food and music. He gives lectures around the world on literature, ecology, philosophy and culture.
This event is co-sponsored with the Department of English, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, the Centre for Theory and Criticism, the Rotman Institute of Philosophy, and the Public Humanities Forum.
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June 12, 2012
2012 Newsletter
The Centre for Environment & Sustainability annual newsletter for 2012 is now available. Read all about it in the current issue of DispatchES.
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April 20, 2012
I.D.E.A.S. Conference
Interdisciplinary Environmental Actions for Sustainability
The 4th Annual I.D.E.A.S Conference, an event featuring consulting project presentations from the Masters in Environment & Sustainability Program, was recently held at London's Convergence Centre. The consulting project course offers students the opportunity to work in groups alongside real-world clients to research a business related environment and sustainability issue and provide a set of recommendations to respond to the issue as presented by the participating client. This year, students worked with the City of London, Niagara Parks Commission, YMCA, Thames River Clear Water Revival Project, Middlesex County Planning Department, Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, Federation of Canadian Municipalities and Sobey's Inc.
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