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2nd Annual Research Showcase – Churchill Communities of Knowledge : Mobilizing Ecological Knowledge through Yorkspace, our Open Access Institutional Repository Panel

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IRIS_Showcase_2013On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) will be hosting our annual research showcase event. This year’s theme is Churchill Communities of Knowledge: Mobilizing Ecological Knowledge through Yorkspace, our Open Access Institutional Repository Panel.

Date: March 13th, 2013
Time: 11:30 – 1:00 PM
Location: Room 519 York Research Tower

Moderator:
Dawn Bazely

Panel:
Andrea Kosavic, Digital Initiatives Librarian, York University
What is an Institutional Repository?

Netta Untershats, Research at York Student and Collection Convenor
Navigating Metadata and Creative Commons Licenses - creating the Jefferies and Cooke Digital Archives

Prof. Emeritus Fred Cooke, CWS Chair in Wildlife, Simon Fraser University (via Adobe connect from UK)
Fred Cooke reflects on the the Fred Cooke Digital Archive

Electronically:
http://connect.yorku.ca/iris_showcase2/

Carbon Budgets at a Cool-temperate Deciduous Forest in Takayama, Japan

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Feb 7, 2013, 11:30am-12:30pm
Location: N143 Ross Building

Visiting scientist Dr. Shohei Murayama from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology in Japan will be describing a portion of his research on the carbon dynamics of natural environments and their potential role in the greenhouse effect.

Dr. Murayama's visit is funded by an International Collaborations seed grant to the graduate program in geography through the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.

Taking action with stories! Exploring the use of digital storytelling with Aboriginal youth leaders

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Location: 163 BSB, Behavioural Science Building
Day: Thursday, January 31, 2013
Time: 10:00-12:00 PM

The LaMarsh Centre for Child and Youth Research proudly presents:

Dr. Sarah Flicker, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies.  Her talk is entitled:

"Taking action with stories! Exploring the use of digital storytelling with Aboriginal youth leaders"

If you would like to learn more about Sarah click here

Please RSVP your attendance to lamarsh@yorku.ca (by January 28, 2013)

Refreshments will be served

 

COP18 Debriefing

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COP-18 Debriefing
Date: February 4th, 2013
Time: 2:30 to 4:00 pm
Location: 280N at York University, Keele Campus

On February 4th, 2013, IRIS will be hosting a debriefing of COP-18 with Professor Idil Boran from the Department of Philosophy and York University delegate of this year's COP talks in Doha, Qatar. The debrief is an open disscussion and participation from the audience is welcomed.

World Mining Congress “Mining, Ethics and Sustainability” August 12-14, 2013

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World Mining Congress "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability"
August 12-14, 2013Call for Papers - Submission Deadline: November 1, 2012

One of the most significant developments in the 21st century has been the growing realization that there are dimensions to mining that go well beyond simply the profitable extraction of mineral resources. Mining can produce financial rewards for its investors and concrete benefits for the users of its products. Historically, however, those benefits have often been created while imposing heavy social, economic and environmental costs and few benefits on the locales, communities and societies impacted directly by mining operations.

It is now widely accepted that mining companies have ethical responsibilities that extend well beyond traditional financial and investor focused objectives and outcomes. Meeting these “non-traditional’ social, economic and environmental responsibilities is today essential to acquiring a “social license to operate”.

The purpose of the "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability" program stream of the World Mining Congress is to identify and discuss the ethical values that should define the boundaries of the emerging economic, social and environmental responsibilities of mining in the 21st century and the dimensions of mining’s social license to operate.

The program for the "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability" stream will extend over three days, from August 12-14, 2013. It will include:

  • Three key note addresses by thought leaders whose ideas are helping to describe the nature and character of the social, economic and environmental responsibilities of mining companies in the 21st century;
  • Three cross sector panels that will explore the themes of "mining and sustainability", "women and mining", and "First Nation perspectives on the ethical values that define responsible mining";
  • Peer reviewed papers and presentations on "Mining, Ethics and Sustainability" submitted in response to the program stream Call for Papers.

Submission of papers and case studies that explore the ethical responsibilities of mining and the capacity of mining to contribute to sustainable development are invited. For a list of relevant topics and themes and for submission details click here.

For further information, please contact Hilary Martin at hmartin@cbern.ca.

Work in a Warming World’s 2013 International Panel

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WORK IN A WARMING WORLD'S 2013 INTERNATIONAL PANEL
GREEN WORK, BROWN WORLD: LABOUR AND THE DILEMMA OF CLIMATE CHANGE 

When: Friday, January 25, 2013, 5:30-7:30pm

Where: Alumni Hall, Victoria College at University of Toronto

91 Charles St. West. Toronto, On, M5S 1K7

Across the planet, the world is browning, not greening. Greenhouse gas emissions continue to grow and grow, and strategies for slowing global warming remain ineffective.

The world of work is a major producer of GHGs.  But can work also be a leading site for reducing greenhouse gasses? Can workers and their unions lead the struggle to slow global warming? The question is central to decent work in the 21st century.

Work in a Warming World (W3) is a community-university research initiative of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. W3's Public Panels have been held in Fredericton, Vancouver, and Toronto, in 2010, 2011 and 2012.

This year, W3's International Panel brings together labour environmentalists and academics from Canada and the US to discuss the hard issues that unions face, and to share the strategies that work. The hard issues have, to date, kept unions from playing the major role they can and must play in the struggle to slow global warming.  Labour's strategic creativity, however, is less well-known.

Join us for an early evening Panel of leading labour environmentalists and activist intellectuals to discuss the hard challenges and creative strategies for labour leadership on global warming.

Speakers:
Karen Hawley,Environmental researcher and educator (Ottawa)
Donald Lafleur, 4th Vice-President, Canadian Union of Postalworkers (Ottawa)
Isabelle Ménard, conseillère syndicale--environnement Confédération des syndicats nationaux (Montréal)
Andrea Peart, National Representative, Health, Safety and Environment, Canadian Labour Congress (Ottawa)
Joe Uehlein, Director, Labor Network for Sustainability (Washington, D.C.)

 

The Panel is free, but registration is essential.  Seating is limited.

 

 Click HERE To Register

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