Catherine Potvin is a plant ecologist and professor in the Department of Biology at McGill University who has worked on issues relating to climate change and sustainability since the early 1980s.
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The Carbon Budget Explained in Two Minutes
Climate science can be a difficult topic to talk about with its many unintuitive concepts, and it’s this confusion that leads to confused voters! This new animated series by Green Majority uses simple language and hand drawn animations to help explain the basic concepts of climate science that citizens need […]
Meet the Authors Behind Canada’s Map to Sustainability
Sustainable Canada Dialogues/Dialogues pour un Canada vert is an incredible collaboration of academics from across Canada.
Breaking Up With Fossil Fuels
It’s Global Divestment Day on February 13th, 2015, a day of worldwide climate action and recognition of the growth and reach of the fossil fuel divestment movement, created by the Go Fossil Free campaign.
The Forest’s Next Move
THE PARTNERSHIP GROUP for Science and Engineering, composed of members of more than 25 organizations, has been conducting breakfast lectures for parliamentarians since 1998. They call it the Bacon and Eggheads series and they want it to showcase topical Canadian research in a non-partisan forum that allows scientists to present […]
Huffing & Puffing
YOU’VE HEARD the ads. Beyond the ugly open pit mines lies a different sort of oil sands, intones a friendly Cenovus voice. The difference, goes the ad, consists of some 100 gleaming steam plants in Alberta’s boreal forest where industry can safely recover oil from 450 metres beneath the ground […]
Four Pillars of Prosperity
THE METCALF FOUNDATION, an organization focused on helping Canadians build a just, sustainable and creative society, has produced a new report called Green Economy at Community Scale. Released in November and written by professor of sustainable development Tim Jackson and ecological economist Peter A.
Weeds
TECHNICALLY, only plants can be weeds. But plenty of other organisms are similarly vigorous, adaptive to circumstances and resilient in the face of discouragement. They, or rather we, are metaphorical weeds. Weeds in the plant world thrive in adversity. Unwanted, maligned and attacked with murderous intent, they nonetheless survive and […]
Hybrid Employees
Canadian COLLEGES may have started as a community-based educational alternative in the 1960s, but they have truly come into their own as a career-building foundation for many young Canadian environmentalists.
The Water-Energy Nexus
Acidic water and corroded pipes conspire to leak the equivalent of 2,888 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of Cape Breton’s treated water into the ground every year before it reaches its intended customers – that’s a 40 per cent leakage rate.
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