Dialing for Change
This past semester, I had the honour and privilege of teaching 16 amazing first year students through a First Year Seminar course, Cool Heads for a Hot Planet: Canada and…
Category: Climate Change Globally
Robocall Steve for Climate Action!
Students from my first year class on Canada and Climate Change (Cool Heads for a Hot Planet) have spent the semester becoming educated, engaged, and enraged on the state of…
Pioneer Radio Interview
The lovely folks at Pioneer Radio at CFRU interviewed me last week about the impacts of climate change on mental health, and the research that I’ve had the pleasure of…
“A Message for Canada during the UN Climate Summit in Durban”
A message from Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other prominent Africans in an ad they took out in the COP-17 conference’s daily newsletter, ECO. “Canada, you were once considered a leader…
Ice shelves in Arctic disappearing faster than expected – CTV News
Ice shelves in Arctic disappearing faster than expected – CTV News. And the sea ice extent and stability continues to shift…
Sea Ice and Arctic Resources
As Inuit representatives from all over the world gather in Ottawa today for a two-day emergency summit on oil and mineral extraction and business development throughout the Circumpolar regions, data…
Mitigation, Adaptation, or…Suffering?
As I’m getting ready to head to the annual ArcticNet Conference in Ottawa (December 14-17, 2010), a recent article by Lonnie G. Thompson caught my eye. Published in Behavioural Analyst…
