/sustainability/taxonomy/term/94/all en /sustainability/channels/news/can-hopeful-moments-lead-hopeful-futures-357900 <h2 style="text-align:center">Can hopeful moments lead to hopeful futures?</h2> <p style="text-align:center">By聽Daphne Chalmers (UU直播, Education),聽Julia Freeman (UU直播, Bieler School of Environment),聽Diane Dechief (UU直播, Office of Science Education),聽Natalya Gomez (UU直播, Earth and Planetary Sciences),聽Blane Harvey (UU直播, Education),聽Amy Janzwood (UU直播, Bieler School of Environment/Political Science)聽and聽Nik Luka (UU直播, Architecture and Urban Planning)</p> Mon, 08 Jul 2024 12:50:46 +0000 admin 3347 at /sustainability /sustainability/article/mcgill-community-members-generate-bold-ideas-addressing-sustainability-challenges-campus <p>On February 9th, the UU直播 Office of Sustainability and the <a href="http://environmentssmu.wixsite.com/ssmuenvironment">Environment Committee</a> of the Student Society of UU直播 (SSMU) hosted the very first Sustainability Projects Fund Challenge. With about $1 million in funding available each year, the <a href="/sustainability/spf">Sustainability Projects Fund</a> (SPF) is the largest seed-fund of its kind in North America.</p> Tue, 13 Feb 2018 19:41:14 +0000 Monica Allaby 2711 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/event/vision-2020-climate-sustainability-action-plan-launch-282646 <p>After months of consultations with more than 500 community members, UU直播鈥檚 <a href="/sustainability/sustainability-strategy">Climate & Sustainability Action Plan</a> has finally launched!聽<br /> <br /></p> Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:01:54 +0000 toby.davine@mcgill.ca 2682 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/warming-temperatures-threaten-fragile-balance-canadian-arctic-239198 <blockquote> <p><span>Sept. 23, 2014 | </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" target="_blank">NY Times</a></p> <p>by: Michael Becker</p> </blockquote> <p>"As a doctoral candidate at UU直播 in Montreal, I have spent three years researching how the planet鈥檚 changing climate is affecting the polar desert ecology of the high Arctic. It鈥檚 precisely this balance of climate and permafrost, ice and ecosystems that I鈥檝e come here to study."</p> Mon, 29 Sep 2014 03:47:11 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 2007 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/global-warming-planet-hits-natural-pause-button-237653 <blockquote> <p>International Business Times | July 22, 2014</p> <p>By:聽Jayalakshmi K</p> </blockquote> <p>Global temperatures between 1998 and 2013 indicate a slowdown in global warming, but this was due to <a href="http://phys.org/news/2014-07-global-natural-fluctuation.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">natural cooling</a>聽fluctuation and not due to any decrease in greenhouse gas emissions - this has been proved by statistical analysis of the temperatures, conducted by UU直播 physics professor Shaun Lovejoy.</p> Fri, 25 Jul 2014 09:23:54 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1931 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/mcgill-nonlinear-physics-professor-and-climatologist-shaun-lovejoy-global-warming-not- <h3>Opinion: Research Shows the Global Warming isn't natural</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on June 9, 2014 | <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/" target="_blank">The Gazette</a></p> <p>by: Shaun Lovejoy</p> </blockquote> <p>Last year, the Quebec Skeptics Society laid down a challenge: 鈥淚f anthropogenic global warming is as strong as scientists claim, then why do they need supercomputers to demonstrate it?鈥�</p> <p>My immediate response was: 鈥淭hey don鈥檛.鈥�</p> Thu, 12 Jun 2014 02:45:00 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1867 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/climate-change-bad-inuit-health-research-group-says-235746 <h3>UU直播 group says the Arctic needs better adaptation policies</h3> <blockquote> <p>Published on April 28, 2014 | <a href="http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca" target="_blank">Nunatsiaq Online</a><br />by David Murphy</p> </blockquote> <p>Inuit are vulnerable to climate change, and it鈥檚 time for new policy to adapt, a group of researchers says in a new report</p> <p>That鈥檚 the message from the Climate Change Adaptation Research Group, led by James Ford of UU直播, who released a paper April 24 about the need for better adaption strategies, especially in health, for Inuit.</p> Fri, 02 May 2014 02:45:43 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1783 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/news/climate-change-extinction-ice-free-antarctic-polynyas-due-trapped-ocean-heat-eric-galb <h3>Researchers from the UU直播 and University of Pennsylvania have found evidence to show climate change is the main reason for the disappearance of ice-free regions, known as polynyas.</h3> <blockquote> <p>Find story links below</p></blockquote> Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:54:11 +0000 ian.tattersfield@mail.mcgill.ca 1721 at /sustainability /sustainability/channels/event/world-afire-lunch-and-learn-session-professor-nigel-roulet-224619 <p><strong>RSVP:聽</strong><a href="http://www.alumni.mcgill.ca/redirect/?ed=6688&jid=0000484563&link=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.alumni.mcgill.ca%2Fevents%2Fccc-roulet2013" target="_blank">http://www.alumni.mcgill.ca/events/ccc-roulet2013</a><strong><br /></strong></p> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:02:34 +0000 justin.berot-burns@mail.mcgill.ca 1269 at /sustainability