
Exploring intersections between ecology and sexuality
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is pleased to welcome Visiting Artist-in-Residence Angie Quick this January. Quick is a visual artist based in London, Ontario and her work is featured at York’s Cross Road Gallery until March. Angie Quick's exhibition at EUC's Cross Road Gallery at HNES 283. Hosted by
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Deriving Ontario Municipal-level Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity data
by Peri Dworatzek, MES, PhD student and Partnership Coordinator for the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab Peri Dworatzek Fall 2024 marked the release of the first Ontario municipal Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity dataset. This data presents a one-year snapshot of local levels of consumption [ecological footprint] and natural resource regeneration
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Colonialism, starvation and resistance: How food is weaponized, from Gaza to Canada
by Charles Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tamara Soma A displaced Palestinian boy carries bread as he walks between tents in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on Oct. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/ Abdel Kareem Hana) For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion
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Understanding the economy’s impact on and relationships with ecosystems
by Andrew Reeves Andrew Reeves I’m the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Ecological Macroeconomics and Metrics, working in the International Ecological Footprint Learning Lab (IEFLL). My work encompasses several strands of research, all relating to the core assumption of ecological economics: that our economy is an interrelated subset of the natural world.
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Ethical obligation to confront scholasticide in Gaza
In photo (L-R): Profs. Stefan Kipfer, Ahmed Shaban, Pablo Idahosa and Ratiba Hadj-Moussa. In Fall 2024, EUC hosted an event titled ‘Confronting Scholasticide,’ where visiting professor Dr. Ahmed Abu Shaban recounts the struggles of developing independent Palestinian educational institutions amid the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dr. Shaban, an Associate Professor and Dean
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Brewing change: Rethinking coffee cup habits for a sustainable future
Daniela Palma by Daniela Palma “The truth is, the natural world is changing. And we are totally dependent on that world. It provides our food, water, and air. It is the most precious thing we have and we need to defend it.” – David Attenborough Every day, countless people in
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Making invisible stories visible and enabling the storytelling of untold stories through discursive cartographies
Prof. Joseph Palis discusses the Filipino-Canadian film "Islands" (2021) that centres on one man's alienation from the social world he inhabits and calls home. EUC welcomes Professor Joseph Palis as a scholar-in-residence from the Department of Geography at the University of the Philippines-Diliman. Palis specializes in cultural geography, media geographies,
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Algal assemblage change in a shallow boreal lake as a response to climate intensified permafrost thaw
Thomas Wu by Thomas Wu The past half century of climate change has seen the Canadian boreal subarctic experience warming air temperatures, more thunderstorms, and changes to local vegetation, resulting in increased forest fires. This has accelerated permafrost thaw, converting boreal peatland forests into new wetlands and small lakes, completely
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Urban community garden as an assemblage of more-than-human environmental justice
by Käthe Ploeger Käthe Ploeger While there has been quite some research on environmental justice in Toronto's urban agriculture, few of them have included internal micropolitical landscapes and even fewer have considered the more-than-human world in the gardens. I am pleased to have the chance to delve deeper into the
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Trans activism within the realm of urban planning
by Carmen Armignonette, Master in Environmental Studies (MES) Planning Alumna November 13 to 19 is Transgender Awareness Week, a one-week celebration leading up to the Transgender Day of Remembrance on November 20, which memorializes victims of transphobic violence. My research focuses on trans activism within the realm of urban planning,
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