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Speaker: Dr. Melissa Lem Topic: PaRx: a prescription for patient and planetary health. Time: Feb 21, 2023 14:00 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Note that this is on a TUESDAY. Summary: Nature prescriptions are being written by healthcare professionals across the planet, from Scotland to Japan to the United States. And rightly so: from improved […]
Speaker: Ralph Torrie Title: Doing Well by Doing Good -- Encouraging indications from corporate revenue and investment trends. Time: Mar 1, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Revenues and investments for 2,500 large companies have been measured against Corporate Knights' taxonomy of sustainable production and the results are encouraging. As a group, the companies […]
Speaker: Dr. David Harries Topic: Whither Accountability? So What?. Time: Mar 8, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Accountability has become a crisis in its own right that is reinforcing the influence and impact of every other element of the global polycrisis. Accountability is broad in concept (see the Wiki entry). It is in crisis due […]
Topic: Microgrids in the age of the Anthropocene. Time: Mar 15, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Human impact on the planet has reached unprecedented levels of environmental degradation. Scientists are proposing to call this geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Electric power systems are a major contributor to the unsustainable human impact on the […]
Speaker: Hector Garcia Topic: Intergenerational Alliances to Counter Silo Mindset on Economic Growth vs Humanity, Nature, and Reason. Time: Mar 22, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Humanity is experiencing great trauma and crises during the current phase of globalization. Where and how are we looking for solutions? We keep focusing on areas where we have invested […]
Speaker: Heidi Radford Legg Topic: Will knowing who runs and funds our media rebuild trust. Time: Mar 29, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Heidi Legg is focused on increased transparency into who funds our newsrooms. With the massive disruption in digital news and the proliferation of newsrooms with global reach, understanding who […]
Speaker: Dr. Ted Manning Topic: Changing the Discussion from Growth to Wellbeing. Time: Apr. 5, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: (This presentation is based on a project we have been doing with the main Club of Rome) Why Growth? We have often behaved as humans that our prime directive is growth. And where has this gotten us? The problematique […]
Speaker: Julian Cribb Topic: Earth Detox: How and why we must clean up our planet Time: Apr 12, 2023 Summary : Earth, and all life on it, are saturated with anthropogenic chemicals and wastes, in an event unlike anything in the previous 4 billion years. Each moment of our lives, from conception to death, we are exposed to […]
Speaker: Marianne Armstrong Topic: Supporting Climate Change Adaptation of Canada’s Built Environment Time: Apr 19, 2023 13:30 Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada) Summary: Since 2016, the National Research Council in collaboration with Infrastructure Canada has been working to integrate climate change considerations into codes, standards and guidance to ensure Canada’s buildings and infrastructure are resilient […]
Speaker: Dr. Jack Alpert Topic: Civilization's “Running Out of Gas” Story Time: Apr 26, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: 8 billion people live today because energy and materials can produce their food and services. If in 80 years fossil fuels cannot be produced, and without them, solar and wind machines cannot be built and maintained, […]
Speaker: Michael Dowd Topic: The Big Picture: Beyond Hope and Fear Time: 3 May 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: No one needs convincing that we are living in an age of chaos and breakdowns. Even those without an ecological understanding of history feel the stress. How do we cope? How can we escape the […]
Topic: Public confidence on the road to net zero: a key ingredient for emissions reductions success. Speaker: Dr. Monica Gattinger Time: May 10, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: Canada is at a pivotal moment on energy and climate: there is far greater consensus about the need to reduce emissions, and there are […]
Speaker: Walter Knitl Topic: Sustainability through the Internet of Things and AI. Time: May 17, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: We are amid a global climate crisis brought on by humanity exceeding the earth's sustainable atmospheric and biospheric capacity – compelling, profound action to achieve a sustainable future. Success will depend on societal, industrial, and […]
Speaker: Dr. Robin Sleith Topic: Connectivity between freshwater and marine ecosystems Time: May 24, 2023 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada) Summary: This talk will explore the connectivity between freshwater and marine ecosystems, using the ongoing Maine-eDNA project as a guide. Climate change and nutrient pollution in freshwater ecosystems have led to increased impacts on […]
