CERLAC presents
How is Black Identity Performed in Canada?
a panel discussion with: Dr. Erna Brodber (Jamaican Historian, Sociologist & Author) Dr. Clive Forrester & Dr. Michele Johnson
Date and Time: Weds Nov 23 6 - 8 pm
Location: Student Centre 321 York University
Legal Philosophy Between State and
Transnationalism Seminar Series
“Criminalizing the State”
Professor François Tanguay-Renaud
Osgoode
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Friday 25 November 2011
ROOM IKB 4034
Refreshments will be served
Biographies of the speakers and the presented paper available at:
http://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca
Looking for a way to gain international experience? Want to spend your summer doing something meaningful?
Check out the York International Internship Program. Opportunities range from environmental education in Cambodia, to an outdoor art gallery in Italy, to a biomedicine laboratory in Spain, to a science centre in South Africa, to working with street kids in Mexico. Follow the link to explore the opportunity and explore the world.
55 placements available
Duration: 3 months beginning in May 2012
Open to all York Students who meet eligibility criteria
Includes a $3000 York International Internship award to offset expenses and students are also eligible for additional funding to substantially offset cost of flight
Deadline to Apply: January 6, 2012
Please RSVP at city@yorku.ca
everyone is welcome!
York University Northern Studies Symposium
November 18, 2011
11:30-2:00 pm
N143 Ross Building
11:30-12:00 Examining the loss of methane through ebullition in shallow Subarctic ponds. Zoe Davis and Pervaiz Muhammad.
12:00-12:15 Preliminary analysis of frost table development in varying wetland terrain
12:15-12:30 Plant recolonization after disturbance in the Hudson Bay Lowlands. Sarmela Ramachandranathan, BA Supervisor: Richard Bello, Department of Geography.
12:30-12:45 The community politics of uranium mining in Qamani’tuaq, Nunavut. Warren Bernauer, PhD Supervisor: Robin Roth, Department of Geography.
12:45-13:00 Energetic contributions of ice-based primary production to higher predators in the high and low Arctic, Steven Duerkson, MSc. Supervisor: Gregory Thiemann, Faculty of Environmental Studies.
13:00-13:15 Investigating trends in changes of Arctic lakes from 1956 to 2009. Ray Biastoch, PhD. Supervisor: Roberto Quinland, Department of Biology.
13:15-:13:30 The use of genetic sequencing to identify historical biogeographic patterns in chironomid midge distributions. Chris Luzczek.PhD. Supervisor: Roberto Quinlan, Department of Biology.
Sponsored by the President’s Advisory Committee on Northern Studies, York University
The City Institute at York University (CITY) presents:
CITY TALKS "It's Time to Stop the War on Cars" Public Transit in Toronto
Christian Mettke Darmstadt University of Technology Christian Mettke is a Ph.D. Candidate at the "Institute for Spatial and Infrastructure Planning" at Darmstadt University of Technology and a member of the graduate program "Topology of Technology". In his Ph.D. thesis "A topology of public transit in suburban spaces" he discusses the changing urban, institutional and political context of public transit provision in Toronto and Frankfurt.
Christian is currently a Visiting Scholar at the City Institute at York University.
Wednesday November 30th, 2011 3:00pm-4:00 pm 7th Floor Lounge, York Research Tower York University
Everyone is welcome.
The following appeared in the Wednesday, November 16th edition of YFile.
York University Professor Jose Etcheverry has received a prestigious CMHC Excellence in Education Award for bringing his commitment to sustainability into the classroom and extending learning beyond lectures.
A professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies, Etcheverry researches topics such as climate change mitigation and renewable energy policies. In confronting these issues, he focuses on developing practical policy solutions through collaboration, and finding new ways to communicate solutions effectively.
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Left: Jose Etcheverry
In addition to conducting research, training graduate students and teaching undergraduates, Etcheverry co-chairs the Sustainable Energy Initiative, established to build and strengthen the teaching, research and other partnerships needed to create new green energy economies in Canada and around the world.
“Jose Etcheverry is absolutely inspirational to his students. He talks about the need for sustainable energy with such passion that it is contagious,” said Barbara Rahder, dean of York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies. “And he works tirelessly to put his words into practice. If his students take up the cause with this same passion, we will be living in a different world much sooner than anticipated.”
CMHC (Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation) created the Excellence in Education Award in 2003 to honour outstanding educational contributions to sustainable practices. Etcheverry was selected for the award in the categories of Innovative Teaching and Sustainable Projects.
An example of this innovation is a project in which Etcheverry’s students will help the International Renewable Energy Agency to create a network of educational resources on renewable energy. As part of their course requirements, students will populate parts of the website for the organization, which represents 148 signatory nations that are devoted to promoting the sustainable use of all forms of renewable energy.
“We must involve students in this type of project so they get practical, hands-on experience that will set them apart when they graduate and give them confidence,” says Etcheverry. “We need to help students by stepping aside and letting them lead. At the end of the day, the future belongs to them.”
On receiving his award Monday evening, Etcheverry announced a new initiative that will further expand the student experience – a partnership between the Sustainable Energy Initiative in York’s Faculty of Environmental Studies and Aalborg University in northern Denmark. The exchange program will enable York University students to attend Aalborg University and learn hands-on at the Nordic Folkecenter for Renewable Energy, a partner organization in northern Denmark, which has a unique wind-testing facility. Danish students will come to York to learn hands-on at the Kortright Centre’s Photovoltaic Performance Verification testing facility.
To learn more about Etcheverry's work, see the February 2008 issue of YorkU magazine.
with
Award-winning Canadian writer Chris Turner
The German Consulate and the Sustainability Network invite you to a presentation and reception on Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 5:00pm. The event takes place at the German Consulate, 2 Bloor Street East, 25th Floor in Toronto.
In a presentation sponsored by the German Foreign Office, Chris Turner showcases the latest and greatest innovations in German cleantech and sustainable design. For more than a decade now, Germany has been the global pacesetter in renewable energy and sustainable industrial development. It is a country reborn on sustainable foundations.
Chris Turner is one of Canada's leading writers and speakers on sustainability and the global cleantech industry. His tour provides a vibrant series of portraits of this German Leap.
The event is free but please rsvp to: rsvp@toro.diplo.de or by phone: 416 642 2920.
Chris Coulter, GlobeScan
“GLOBAL SOCIETAL EXPECTATIONS FOR BUSINESS”
For over a decade, GlobeScan has been tracking how public attitudes have been evolving towards business and its role within society in more than 30 countries around the world.
This briefing will give you the latest insight from the most recent wave of GlobesScan global attitudes tracking, which focuses on how expectations of business’ responsibilities have changed since the economic crisis, the evolution of ethical consumerism in major industrialized an developing economies, how different industry sectors are faring in terms of their perceived responsibility toward society and the environment, and also look at how social media users are ahead of the curve in the importance they attach to responsible business
The following appeared in the Tuesday, November 15th edition of YFile.
Humans have been causing the extinction of species since the Pleistocene. Now they are poised to cause the disappearance of an entire ecosystem, says author and ecologist Peter F. Sale, who will be 
giving a seminar at York next week as part of the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability speaker series.
“Our Planet Does Not Have to Die: A Discussion of the Environmental Crisis” will take place Tuesday, Nov. 22, from noon to 1:30pm, at 519 York Research Tower, Keele campus. Sale will also talk about his new book, Our Dying Planet: An Ecologist’s View of the Crisis We Face (University of California Press). Books will be available for purchase and signing. Light refreshments will be served.
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Coral reefs as we know them could disappear from the Earth by 2050, all because of things we did to them, says Sale, assistant director of the Institute for Water, Environment & Health at United Nations University.
Left: Peter Sale
Our Dying Planet looks at how and why Earth is dying. But Sale emphasized that the book's most important message is that it doesn't have to be that way. Although catastrophe is looming, if people act right away, it can be avoided. A good future is possible for the world and for humanity, but the right decisions need to be made and the right actions taken.
As a coral reef ecologist, Sale has a unique perspective on the environmental crisis and he has four main points:
It remains to be seen if humans make the right choices and if those choices will be made in time to save coral reefs.
For more information, visit the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability website.
