What's New
Hugh MacIsaac - February 8-9, 2010
Professor and DFO Invasive Species Research Chair
Director, Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network
Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research,
University of Windsor
Monday February 8, 2010
“Modeling Biological Invasions” (research presentation)
1:30-2:30 p.m. Chemistry Building Rm 9
All welcome
Tuesday February 9, 2010
Vision Statement and Q&A
11:15-12:15 p.m. University Community Centre 61
Or
2:30-3:30 University Community Centre 61
All welcome
7th Annual Earth Day Colloquium - April 23, 2010
Researchers from all disciplines are welcomed by this year's Earth Day Colloquium planning committee to submit an abstract outlining their research in the field of environment and sustainability for presentation on April 23, 2010.
For more information visit the Earth Day Colloquium webpages.
3rd Annual Western Green Awards
Nomination Period February 2-26 2010
Nominations are being sought for the Western Green Awards to recognize contributions to sustainability on campus.
The purpose of the award is to help raise awareness of sustainability at The University of Western Ontario through the acknowledgement of community members - student, faculty, and staff - who have made positive contributions.
To read more about this initative, learn how you can participate and access a nomination form, please visit the university Green Awards site (part of Physical Plant and Capital Planning Services), or Email
greenawards@uwo.ca.
Upcoming Public Lectures
David Noble - February 22, 2010
Founder and Principal of 2 degrees C, navigating Climate Change
www.2degreesc.com
Fresh from the Climate Change conference in Copenhagen, activist David Noble, will give a firsthand perspective as a participant. What was achieved? Anything, or was it just a lot of hot air? What were the conference outcomes? How does the world view climate change? Two degrees C of global warming over pre-industrial global average temperatures is viewed as a critical threshold above which the risks of catastrophic climate change increase dramatically. Are we moving in the right 2 degree direction?
David Noble is founder and principal of 2degreesC, a global organization with a core team in Canada that works with and through a network of partners, clients and friends all around the world. It is dedicated to advancing collective action and transformational change in response to the global climate crisis.
Copenhagen was David’s fifth international climate negotiation. He has trained with Al Gore and is a presenter with the Climate Project, has been a keynote and featured presenter to diverse audiences in 10 countries in North America, Europe and Asia. He has worked on more than 60 projects spanning the public, private and youth sectors, academia, and various professional sectors.
David’s articles appear frequently in professional and general interest publications, and he has contributed to several national and international reports, including a UNICEF report on the human security impacts of climate change on children. He co-edited and wrote for, Stepping up to the Climate Change Challenge: Perspectives on local government leadership, policy and practice, distributed to nearly 4,000 Mayors and chief administrators in municipalities across Canada.
David Noble is a man of passion and purpose. Audiences have called his talks energetic, exciting, motivating, inspiring, hopeful, and not to be missed!
We are pleased to invite everyone to participate in this special speaker event.
EVENT POSTER
David Noble
The 2 degrees challenge: Climate catastrophe or sustainable inspiration?
4:30 to 6 PM, Middlesex College Room 110
Public Lecture - All Welcome
Richard Heinberg - March 24, 2010
Senior Fellow-in-Residence, The Post Carbon Institute, California U.S.A.
We are pleased to welcome Richard Heinberg to Western for this special public lecture event.
Widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost Peak Oil educators, Richard Heinberg presents on food sustainability, community resilience, Peak Oil and climate change, economic sustainability, the Transition Town movement, and promising models in communities across the country and the world. He is author nine books (Blackout: Coal, Climate, and the Last Energy Crisis (2009); Peak Everything: Waking Up to the Century of Declines (2007); The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse (2006); Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World (2004); The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003), and written many essays and articles that have appeared in a wide range of journals including The Ecologist, The American Prospect, Public Policy Research, Quarterly Review, Z Magazine, Resurgence, The Futurist, European Business Review, and Earth Island Journal. He has also appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour, and is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education. To learn more about Richard Heinberg, please visit www.richardheinberg.com
Public Lecture - All Welcome
Richard Heinberg
4:30 to 6 PM, Middlesex College Room 110
Chris Turner - April 7, 2010
Author of The Geography of Hope
Please watch our website for more details!
Melissa Hardy - January 18, 2010
Broken Road and Land as Story
Author Melissa Hardy visited Western January 18, 2010 for a public speaking engagement. Her audience heard readings from her book Broken Road, and an public lecture on "Land as Story: a road broken and the tragic undoing of the Cherokee Nation". Broken Road is set against the historical backdrop of the events leading up to the Trail of Tears and deeply rooted in the mythology and sacred history of the "Real People" (the name by which the Cherokee referred to themselves), and an account of the intense love-hate relationship between white Americans and the tribe that, more than any other, embraced white culture and emulated its institutions. It was a relationship that was to end in the destruction of the Cherokee way of life and the heartbreaking loss of their ancestral lands. Melissa Hardy's visit is supported by the Centre for Environment and Sustainability. Link to poster.
Melissa Hardy, Novelist
"Land as Story: a road broken and the tragic undoing of the Cherokee Nation"
Monday, January 18, 2010
4:30 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.
Rm 110 Middlesex College
All Welcome
FILM NIGHT November 24, 2009
Blind Spot with special guest, John Michael Greer
What if all of the expectations you have about the future are completely wrong? Mark your calendars for November 24, 2009 and plan to see the documentary film Blind Spot by Adolfo Doring. Come and enjoy a film, pizza and a lively Q&A led by John Michael Greer, social critic on resource scarcity and depletion and author of The Long Decent, The Ecotechnic Future. The evening begins at 6:00 p.m., Middlesex College in Rm 110. All Welcome! (Click for poster and details)
Government of Canada
Three
Public Lectures and
Student Career Seminar
November 18, 2009
Everyone is welcome to attend a series of three public lectures by members of the Government of Canada, delivered at various locations on campus on Wednesday November 18, 2009. Students will not want to miss a special seminar focussing on careers.
The Global Financial Crisis
Mr. Tiff Macklem, Associate Deputy Minister and G7 Deputy for Canada, Finance Canada
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Social Science Room 2050
Developing Climate Change Policy in Canada
Mr. Bob Hamilton, Associate Deputy Minister, Environment Canada
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Room 1 Natural Sciences Centre
The Chrysler and GM Rescue
Mr. Paul Boothe, Senior Associate Deputy Minister, Industry Canada
2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Ivey Room 2R21
Student Career Seminar
Students are invited to attend a Student Career Seminar with Officials from Finance Canada, Environment Canada and Industry Canada.
November 18, 2009
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Room 343 Talbot College
E&S READS - November 3, 2009
Peter Victor
Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster
Expansion and unlimited economic growth - these are common catch phrases of industry and government. But are these ideas sustainable as the world faces difficult environmental challenges? Dr. Peter Victor, economist and Professor in Environmental Studies at York University, argues that management without growth does not lead to economic disaster. By extending input-output analysis, he applies the physical law of the conservation ofmatter to the empirical analysis of a national economy.
Dr. Victor has 40 years of experience working in the environmental field as a consultant, public servant and academic. Presented by: The Centre for Environment and Sustainability
All are welcome to attend the following special events:
Public Lecture
Peter Victor "Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster"
7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Middlesex College Room 1
Discussion Session - Author Q&A
Dr. Victor’s book, Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster is a selection for Environment & Sustainability Reads. Dr. Victor will be discuss his book and field questions from students and a general audience.
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2009
Kresge Building, Room 106
Commencement of the MES Program Application Period
We welcome new applications for the 2010/2011 MES Program beginning October 9, 2009.
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Dr. Helen Caldicott
The Nuclear Question
The Acute and Chronic Dangers of Nuclear Power and Nuclear War
As the subject of the 1982 National Film Board of Canada's Oscar-winning documentary "If you Love
This Planet", Dr. Caldicott inspired a generation to work toward nuclear disarmament. Dr. Caldicott continues her mission with her most recent books Nuclear Power is Not the Answer and War in Heaven. Dr. Caldicott visited Western on October 16, 2009 to deliver a public lecture on "The Nuclear Question: The Acute and Chronic Dangers of Nuclear Power and Nuclear War". View poster
Sponsors: Faculty of Information and Media Studies, the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, the Global and Ecosystem Health Interest Group at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Physicians for Global Survival and the McConnell Family Foundation.
left: Dr. Caldicott,
October 19, 2009, UWO
photo Mitch Zimmer
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