The Antarctic ice shelf is breaking apart from the inside Last year, a massive 583-square-kilometre (225-square-mile) chunk of the Pine Island Glacier – a vast section of ice that holds the West Antarctic ice sheet together – broke free, heading out into the ocean to eventually melt and raise sea levels across the world. Now, […]
Archives for November 2016
Build That (Great Green) Wall
Build That ( Great Green) Wall. All walls are not barriers: Coming out of Marrakech is a promising initiative to help Africa and the world. ‘Great Green Wall’ initiative offers unique opportunity to combat climate change in Africa – UN agency ‘Great Green Wall’ initiative offers unique opportunity to combat climate change in […]
Remodelling Education for an Emergent Future
Remodelling Education for an Emergent Future Author: Lalith Ananda Gunaratne, Ottawa. Our western education system has instituted the deterministic scientific method in our minds as the objective truth. We find a comfortable anchor in that. Yet, as soon as we try to apply a “scientific truth” to real life, we realize there are uncertainties made […]
An inclusive approach to Canada’s climate change challenges
Earlier this month, leaders from around the world gathered in Marrakech, Morocco at the 22nd annual United Nations climate change Conference of the Parties (COP22), a followup to last year’s meeting in Paris. The conference focused on how to achieve continued reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and how to solidify structures to fund adaptation. Yet, given the U.S. […]
Building an Environmentally Sound House Cheaply, in a Week
Should construction industry giants be worried? After open-source software and the manufacture of machines and objects, the global fabber [3-D printer] community is now turning to actual open-source house construction. Providing plans and techniques that are accessible to everyone, collaborative construction and assemblage of components (from the United States to France, by way of Great […]
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