Current Local Environment-Related Events – Page 3

Sustainability through an Intersectional Lens: Looking for Panelists

Posted on July 29, 2020 by ladkin

Sustainability Awareness Week, University of Alberta, October 2020 Are you a graduate student or postdoctoral fellow working on sustainability research using an intersectional, feminist, gender, decolonial/anti-colonial and/or anti-racist framework? IG would like to feature your research during UAlberta’s Sustainability Awareness Week (October 29-30, 2020) as part of a panel showcasing innovative intersectional sustainability research. Find […]

global extraction–a film festival, July 16-20

Posted on July 13, 2020 by ladkin

Streaming Online | July 16-20, 2020 | #FocusOnGlobalExtraction | #GlobalExtractionAction https://politicalecologynetwork.org/2020/07/13/global-extraction-film-festival-geff-2020/#more-4404 The 1st Global Extraction Film Festival, streaming online from July 16-20, 2020, is free to the public worldwide. Curated and hosted by Esther Figueroa, environmental filmmaker based in Jamaica and Emiel Martens, founding director of Caribbean Creativity based in the Netherlands, GEFF 2020 is part of […]

Vienna Degrowth Conference May 29-June 1 (Online)

Posted on May 13, 2020 by AESC

Wednesday May 20 12pm PST Zoom panel discussion on Orphan wells, tailing ponds, fracked water: How big is the toxic legacy of oil and gas? RSVP on Zoom: https://bit.ly/OilWebinar-Part2 The federal government recently announced that they would spend $1.7 billion to clean up orphan wells. Many people started asking questions like: How big is the mess […]

Five Big Ideas – Energy Futures Lab Virtual Conference (May 15)

Posted on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 by AESC

Friday May 15th from 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM MDT Join Energy Futures Lab for a second solutions-oriented conversation about energy, climate and collaborative action. The global economic crisis triggered by COVID-19, paired with an unexpected collapse in oil prices, has left industries across Canada reeling and looking for answers. The road towards economic recovery […]

Event led by AESC member, Anne Pasek: research creation exercizes

Posted on March 10, 2020 by ladkin

MAR 12. SPORE Gathering: Anti-Systemic Methods + Creative ResearchThursday, March 12, 2-5 PM @ Intermedia Research Studio (Tory 1-063). The next SPORE meeting will focus on workshopping some research-creation exercises w/ Dr. Anne Pasek. Please find more details in the attached poster or learn more online here >>>

new report from the parkland institute and the canadian centre for policy studies on employment trends in the oil sands, March 10, 2020

Posted on March 10, 2020 by ladkin

check out the happenings at the intermedia research studio!

Posted on March 10, 2020 by ladkin

COP101 Info Series – Session #1 History of CoP

Posted on March 10, 2020 by ladkin

Next session: Friday, March 20, 9:30-11:30AM (MDT) @ 2-20A Cameron Library or Remotely at https://zoom.us/j/6909859150 The Kule Institute for Advanced Study and the Sustainability Council at the University of Alberta are co-sponsoring a three-part series on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Convention of Parties (COP) meetings: (1) the history; (2) what happened […]

Tar Sands Songbook Performance + Workshop

Posted on March 10, 2020 by ladkin

Performance: Monday, March 16, 2020 at 2:30-4PM @ Arts Based Research Studio (4-104 Education North), University of AlbertaWorkshop: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 2-5PM @ Arts Based Research Studio (4-104 Education North), University of AlbertaPerformance: An illuminating work of documentary theater, the Tar Sands Songbook asks audiences to reconsider their personal relationships to oil. Tanya Kalmanovitch’s polyphonic […]

2020 Kreisel Lecture with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (March 12)

Posted on February 29, 2020 by AESC

Join renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, who will be delivering her original lecture titled A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy & Regeneration in Nishnaabewin on Thursday, March 12 @ 7:30 p.m. @ Timms Centre for the Arts. Learn More