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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 […]
