Dr. Ted Manning is a geographer, a full member of the Club of Rome and a former Chair of CACOR. In this presentation the overall impact of the tourism sector and of efforts to defuse its worst impacts and enhance any positive contributions it can make to global ecological preservation are addressed. In many respects […]
Scaling up Urban Low-carbon Innovations -Rebecca Aird
A presentation on Low Carbon Innovation Ottawa – an initiative that is part of a pan-Canadian effort (Low Carbon Cities Canada) to strengthen and hone local capacity to bring to scale promising initiatives to significantly reduce Ottawa’s GHG emissions. Link to YouTube…
“If Global Warming is so Bad, Why aren’t scientists doing something about it?”Alan Emery
For over a century, scientists have predicted that if we allow CO2 to get abundant enough in the atmosphere it will cause the surface of the planet to warm up slowly and eventually get really hot, hot enough to do real damage to our health and well-being, perhaps even destroy our civil society, and in […]
O-Train Construction and O-Train Planning – Damon Berlin
The presentation focused on the Confederation Line stages 1 and 2, providing a construction update and benefits and ease of use of the system. Current photos, renderings and videos to provide the audience with a true understanding of our exciting project, will bolster the presentation. Link to YouTube…
Climate of The Holocene, From the End of the Ice Age (11750 years ago) to The Present as Derived From Ice Cores; Recent Sudden Changes and Those of the Past. David Fisher
Ice cores from Greenland and Northern Canada tell a consistent story of changes in the climate over many millennium. This story is presented from the end of the last ice age 11750 years ago to the present and the major climate events related to examples of societal response.