Canadian Association for the Club of Rome
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Speaker: Karine Peloffy Topic: It’s time the financial sector invested in our health and well-being Time: May 1, 2024 at 13:30 Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) With Canada’s financial institutions being amongst the main fossil fuel supporters in the world, setting rules to require banks and pensions to align with climate action remains a key missing […]
Speaker: Dr. Karen Shragg Topic: What if Wolves Could Vote? Time: May 8, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: This talk takes a look at our political history in the U.S. and Canada of protecting and often harming the wolf from a wolf's perspective. Wolves have been maligned ever since European settlement in North America […]
Speaker: Dr. Amir Hakami Topic: The Buy-one-get-one-free of Climate Policy. Time: May 15, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Climate change and air pollution share many common drivers and sources. However, policies to address each are often developed independently and without coordination. Further, broad public support for aggressive decarbonization measures has been elusive […]
Speaker: Julie Johnston Topic: Greening the Heart of Education. Time: May 22, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Because our global economy hasn’t chosen sustainable (or, as Dennis Meadows now calls it, survivable) development, we have continued developing unsustainably. By extension, if we don't consciously choose to educate for development that is sustainable, by default […]
Speaker: Paul Beckwith Topic: Global Tipping Points: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Time: May 29, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The Good Tipping Points include renewables like solar PV and wind power, battery storage, electric cars, more public awareness on climate disruption, more government action on carbon pricing. The Bad […]
Speaker: Dr. Ted Manning Topic: Progressing from Growth and Greed to Sustaining Values of Human & Ecological Wellbeing Time: June 5, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: How we define & choose values, & the way we measure what is real & important, & our metrics affect what we perceive & how we act […]
Title: Preparing for Pandemics. Speaker: Dr. David Longworth Time: Jun 12, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) David Longworth is a retired economist. He had a 36-year career at the Bank of Canada. From 2003 until 2010, he was a Deputy Governor there—one of two responsible for issues related to financial stability and financial […]
Speaker: Nandita Bajaj Topic: Confronting population denial amid the unraveling polycrisis Time: Jun 19, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Human population has doubled in the last 50 years, growing from approximately four billion in 1970 to eight billion currently. There is rising public awareness that overpopulation and rampant overconsumption are driving climate […]
Speaker: Paul Martin Topic: Hydrogen, Hopium, and Scale. Time: Jun 26, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: EV vs hydrogen trucks and the materials and primary energy fallacy myths. Biography: Paul Martin is a Toronto based chemical engineer with extensive experience in consulting engineering. He has about three decades worth of experience with a […]
Topic: Agriculture, Climate and Health – How Regenerative Agriculture and Plant-Rich diets Could Reverse Climate Change and Improve Human Health Speakers: Rosemary Kralik and Dr. Barry Bruce Time: Jul 3, 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Biographies: Rosemary Kralik was born in Egypt, moved to the UK when she was 4 years old then […]
