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Speaker: Paul Koch Topic: The Story of Easter Island––A Metaphor for Our Planet. Time: May 31, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: After reading Jared Diamond’s famous book Collapse “how societies choose to fail or succeed”, which contains a full chapter on Easter Island, Paul became interested in exploring Easter Island for himself. So in 2007 […]
Speaker: Darrel Rowledge Topic: Saving humanity — from itself: the case for a paradigm change. Time: Jun 7, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Everywhere we look, we find that humanity’s problems are caused by humans. Every thread we pull leads inevitably back to us, to our systems. What’s worse, these systems are dysfunctional by design. Solving […]
Speaker: Diana Beresford-Kroeger Topic: Forests and Climate Change Time: Jun 14, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: There is a trinity attached to climate change. It operates all over planet Earth, in the water, on the land, and in the atmosphere. The triad is simplicity itself and is composed of carbon dioxide, oxygen, and biodiversity. Once […]
Speaker: Dr. Meg Sears Topic: Sustainable Agriculture: Lessons from the 1930s-on, to inform a 2023 Strategy and Partnership. Time: Jun 21, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Orange skies & choking smoke expose Canada’s vulnerabilities. Climate chaos threatens food security, floods, droughts, & desertification. This spring, the GoC announced a Sustainable Agriculture Partnership, but regenerative organic […]
Speaker: Ruben Nelson Topic: What Can We Make of the Alberta Election? Implications for Canada. Time: Jun 28, 2023, 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Is the political froth that marks Alberta politics today, just froth? Or is it a sign that we are into deeper trouble than our leaders seem not to understand and […]
Speaker: Paul Beckwith Topic: Updates on Abrupt Climate System Change: The Science and Consequences Time: Jul 5, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: I chat about the latest cutting-edge science, observations, and consequences in our rapidly accelerating climate system. This is basically a status report on our present grim situation and an analysis of what we can […]
Speaker: Mike Fletcher Topic: City of Ottawa: Emissions Reduction Inventory and Community Energy Planning. Time: Jul 12, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The key to making progress on many problems is to do the math. Ottawa’s climate strategy does just that and it shows that almost half of our community’s greenhouse gas emissions […]
Speaker: Dr. Carmen Hust and Gordon Kubanek Topic: Social Density Stress as a Missing Limit to Growth. Time: Time: Jul 19, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary Consider the possibility that Chronic Social Density Stress should be included as one of the key Limits to Growth. Social and psychological issues affect our ability to honestly face […]
Speaker: Dr. Madeline Weld Topic: Is Natural Population Decline a Concern? Time: Jul 26, 2023, 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Natural population decline is examined considering collisions with the neoliberal economic systems of perpetual growth. Further, the impacts of an aging population are considered. Biography: Dr. Madeline Weld is president of Population Institute Canada (www.populationinstitutecanada.ca) […]
Speaker: Gordon Kubanek Topic: Beyond Denial – a Franciscan Perspective Time: Aug 2, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary We will explore how the path set by St. Francis can help us walk between the twin catastrophes of Denial & Doom, with the goal of once again becoming “Indigenous”. Most people are now […]
Speaker: Dr. David Lapen Topic: Reducing the environmental footprint of agriculture via nature-based activities and beneficial management practices. Time: Aug 9, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The environmental footprint of agriculture is considerable. Yet there are on and off-farm solutions that can reduce agriculture’s impact on the health of humans and the environment. Nature-based […]
Speaker: Dr. Peter MacKinnon Topic: Artificial Intelligence is on the Rampage: A Call for Guardrails & Regulation. Time: Aug 30, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: The AI rampage started in the public eye less than a year ago with the release of an AI tool based on advances in Natural Language Processes, a branch of […]
Speaker: Lierre Keith Topic: Bright Green Lies. Time: Sep 6, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Once, environmentalism was about saving wild places and wild creatures from destruction. Now, it’s about finding a new power source to continue their destruction. The “bright greens” believe three lies: that industrial civilization can be sustained if we simply switch […]
Speaker: Julia Barnes Topic: The Imminent Threat of Deep Sea Mining Time: Sep 13, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: As the ocean struggles under the assaults of industrial fishing, ocean acidification, warming, and pollution, corporations are rushing to exploit it in a new and dangerous way. They want to turn the deep sea into […]
