Sustainability through an Intersectional Lens: Looking for Panelists

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 […]

AESC STATEMENT IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE WET’SUWET’EN LAND DEFENDERS AND ALLIES, FEBRUARY 27, 2020

We acknowledge and urge the strong recognition of the rights of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to govern their traditional territories in accordance with their own laws. Following the Delgamuukw decision, Canada’s own courts recognize the legitimacy and authority of Indigenous legal orders, including the rights of hereditary chiefs to govern their traditional territories. In accordance […]

Open Letter from Canadian Professors in Support of the Extinction Rebellion

Please read the appended letter expressing support from Canadian academics for rapid, meaningful government action to reduce greenhouse emissions. Specifically, it declares solidarity with the Extinction Rebellion response to government inaction to date. The letter comes to me via a UAlberta colleague who received it from Nora Jaffary at Concordia University. Nora writes that “once […]

local event: the energy transition in germany (Nov. 21, 2019)

The University of Alberta in collaboration with the General Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in Vancouver, the Renewables Academy (RENAC) and the Federal Environmental Environment Agency (UBA) cordially invite you to a dedicated live lecture “The Energy Transition in Germany.” The speaker is Dr. Harry Lehmann Head, Division  for “Environmental Planning and Sustainable […]