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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AWARDS

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Published February 21, 2013

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An annual award inspiring students to view their education through the lens of Sustainable Design Submit a solution, project or concept, to a problem that you have identified as having an impact on Sustainability (ecological, social, economic, cultural, and beyond).
Award is open to all current post-secondary students in Ontario, teams and individuals.
$10,000 cash + Innovation Packages to push your project ideas to the next level!
www.sustainabledesignawards.ca

 

Registration: Deadline April 3rd, 2013

Email the following information to info@SustainableDesignAwards.ca

 

    • Contact Name
    • Student Email – Must be current & active.
    • School & Department – For team submissions, please list all schools & departments of potential team members.
    • Please let us know how you heard of the SDAs.

 

Submission: Deadline June 2nd, 2013

Email the following information to info@SustainableDesignAwards.ca

 

    • Name(s) – Include all team members for team submissions.
    • Title of your project.
    • School & Department – If team submission, please list all the schools & departments of the potential team members.
    • Student Email Address(es) – Must be current & active; include all team members for team submissions.

 

Poster (11×17 PDF):

 

    • Predominantly visual representation of your project (see suggested templates in FAQ for inspiration)
    • A viewer should be able to get a good understanding of your project and your definition of sustainability through this poster, if they want/need more details they can view the write-up.
    • Make sure to include the Title of your project.
    • Make sure to NOT include your name or any personal identifiers on your poster.
    • Max size 5MB.

 

Write-Up (8.5×11 Word Document):

 

  • Your definition of sustainability, in your context.
  • How your project responds to your definition.
  • Your submission will be judged on the depth of your definition & how rigorously your project responds to your definition.
  • FYI – our judges like transdisciplinary systems.
  • Max size 5MB.

 

 

 

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Toronto Port Lands Revitalization Project Through Urban Sustainability

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Published February 20, 2013

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A  World Café style event – the first in the series of Public Forums for leaders in the academic, business, private and public sectors to address issues of Urban Sustainability. The goal is to allow Toronto to play a leading role in facing the future in this critical time of Climate Change, economic and environmental instability and accelerating global urbanization.

Can Toronto Lead the Way for others?

 Why Urban Sustainability?

What does this have to do with the Port Lands in Toronto?

Come join us to explore the possibilities !

 

Time: 11 AM to 3 PM, March 2nd, 2013

Registration starts at 10:30 AM, free lunch at 1PM

Location: Rm 5150 OISE – University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St W, Toronto

 

We are seeking students, researchers, professionals and professors, business people and politicians from all disciplines who wish to discuss the issues and imagine the future. Bring your ideas and aspirations with you and give a voice to your visions of a sustainable Toronto.

An open, highly charged and animated event.  You will be engaged at every moment.

 

Organized and Sponsored by CURRENTS

Collaborative for an URban RENewable Toronto through Sustainability

a working group of Science for Peace, University of Toronto

Facilitated by Sandra Leigh Lester, Affecting Change Inc.

 

-  Participants limited to a maximum 60 people

event page:http://www.CurrentsWorldCafeOne.eventbrite.ca
password: CurrentsWorldCafeOne

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FES Research Celebration

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Published February 9, 2013

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Robert Haché, vice-president research and innovation & Noël Sturgeon, dean, Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES), invite you to a research celebration showcasing FES faculty and student research and publications on Thursday, Feb. 14 from 2 to 4pm, in the Scott Library Atrium, Keele campus.

RSVP at http://bit.ly/FES_Research. 

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Research Celebration

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Published February 6, 2013

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Robert Haché, Vice-President Research and Innovation & Noël Sturgeon, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies invite you to join us for a Research Celebration showcasing FES faculty and student research and publications.

Thursday, February 14, 2013
2-4pm, Scott Library Atrium

 Join us for brief talks on recent books by FES researchers including:

  • Honor Ford-Smith, 3 Jamaican Plays: A Post-Colonial Anthology (1977 - 1987)
  • Ilan Kapoor, Celebrity Humanitarianism The Ideology of Global Charity
  • Roger Keil, In-Between Infrastructure: Urban Connectivity in an Age of Vulnerability
  • Stefan Kipfer, Gramsci: Space, Nature, Politics
  • Tim Leduc, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North
  • Ana Maria Martinez, Las Nubes: Conservation in the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica
  • Rod MacRae, Health and Sustainability in the Canadian Food System: Advocacy and Opportunity for Civil Society
  • Anders Sandberg, Climate Change - Who’s Carrying the Burden? The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma
  • Laura Taylor, Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia
  • Mark Winfield, Blue Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario

Event Highlights also include:

  • Graduate research presentations from 10am-12pm at the Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies (HNES) Building, Room 141
  • Joint FES-Osgoode seminar “From Northern Gateway to Line 9: The New Law and Politics of Energy Pipelines in Canada,” 12:30-2:30 pm HNES Building, Room 140
  • Faculty book displays and sales by York Bookstore in the Scott Library Atrium
  • Gallery of faculty and student research posters
  • Short video clips of faculty and student research
  • Free information materials about Faculty research

Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/FES_Research

 

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Discussion Forum with Dr. Lorna Marsden on Strengthening Canada’s Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension: Report of the Expert Panel on Women in University Research

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Learn more about this report by the Canadian Council of Academies panel, chaired by Dr. Marsden, on the factors that influence the university research careers of women.

And join a discussion facilitated by Associate Vice-President Research Lisa Philipps.

The report can be found online at: http://www.scienceadvice.ca/en/assessments/completed/women-researchers.aspx

The Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation invites you to join us for a Discussion Forum on
“Strengthening Canada’s Research Capacity: The Gender Dimension: Report of the Expert Panel on Women in University Research”

With keynote speaker Lorna Marsden, President Emeritus and Professor, York University

Monday, February 11, 2013
10:00 am - 11:30 am
Room 519, York Research Tower

Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/Discussion_Forum

 

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Law.Arts.Culture Colloquium 2012-2013

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Published February 6, 2013

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Date: Monday, February 11, 2013
Time: 2:30 - 4:00 pm.
Location: Room 2027. Ignat Kaneff Building Osgoode Hall Law School

 

R v. Kikkik, Take 5: Law/Art/Culture & the Canadian National Imaginary

University of Victoria

REBECCA JOHNSON

In 1958, international attention turned to the arctic, for the trial of Kikkik, an Inuit woman charged with murder and the criminal abandonment of her children. In this presentation, I explore four different tellings of this story: the 1958 trial transcript; Farley Mowatt's popular 1959 non-fictional account; a set of three Inuit sculptures (carved in 1959) long displayed in the Yellowknife courthouse; a documentary film made 50 years after the event by Kikkik's daughter (who had been the baby carried on her mother's back). The case, situated at the intersection of law/art/culture, opens productive space for questions about the place of the colonial encounter in the making and remaking of the Canadian national imaginary.

Professor Johnson clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Madame Justice L'Heureux-Dubé in 1993-93, and was a member of the Faculty of Law of the University of New Brunswick from 1995 to 2001, when she joined the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. Her book, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002) received the Harold Adams Innis Prize. She was promoted to Full Professor in 2009.

She teaches Criminal Law, Business Associations, Legal Process and Law and Film. Current research projects include a study of judicial decision making (and particularly practices of dissent); an exploration of the economic imaginary in legal and popular culture; a study of cinema as a site of intercultural legal encounter; and an interrogation of the operation of sexuality as a ?lashpoint in debates around religion and diversity.

 

Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP: adrgs@osgoode.yorku.ca

 

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Student Research Opportunity – International Research Roundtable – Deadline to apply February 11

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Published February 6, 2013

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The Economic Shift: Finding Our Balance in a Sustainable Marketplace
Andrew Bowerbank

Request for Participants
International Research Roundtable
Only 12 students will be selected to work on a team to deliver this highly anticipated international publication.
Benefits:

  • Add real-world research experience to your resume!
  • Your work will be acknowledged in this high-profile publication!
  • You will work closely with international leaders!
  • Gain access to professional networks!
  • You will receive an honorarium for your efforts!

How to Apply:
Submit a formal letter of interest with a sample of your written work to:
Dawn Bazely & Annette Dubreuil, YorkU Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability.
by email: irisinfo@yorku.ca or drop-off at IRIS.
Date Due: February 11, 2013

Strategic Objective
Andrew Bowerbank and his team are developing a comprehensive reference book for international distribution to support the projects, workshops, market reports and keynote addresses he conducts around the world. The book will be developed in collaboration with industry leaders and used as an engagement tool to communicate across interest groups, leverage new market opportunities, and support awareness.

Book Premise
Since the dawn of the first Industrial Revolution, our social and economic condition has been defined by the technologies, materials and processes that comprise our built environment. Today, global leaders across sectors are now confronted by the limitations of our energy dependence, and we are witnessing an attempt to shift technology development towards cleaner fuel sources and high-performance systems to meet the demands of our rising populations. This book will explore the technological advancements being implemented by industry leaders around the world in response to our environmental condition and review new market strategies that will support our economic priorities over the coming century.

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Are YoU a Water Zombie?: How do we be water wise?

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Zombie 3Final Report

Date: Monday March 25th, 2013
Location: 280N York Lanes
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm

Come and take action! 

Are you aware of water issues? Are your actions hurting disenfranchised people worldwide? Do you want to take action and make a difference here at York and beyond?

The purpose of this water unconference is to create a forum for students, staff, and faculty to have open conversations around social justice, human rights, sustainability, and water issues. The end goal is to create opportunities to work together in order to take action both personally and here at York University.

An unconference uses ‘open space technology’ to host a conference that allows participants to determine the agenda themselves at the start of the day within the scope of a particular topic. So YoU set the agenda!

This unconference is brought to you through the joint efforts of:

  • IRIS – Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability
  • the Centre for Human Rights
  • the President’s Sustainability Council

Outline for the day:

9:30am to 10:00am – sign up and welcome
10:00am to 11:00am – introduction and setting the agenda - including short presentation by FES Professor Lewis Molot
11:00am to 2:00pm – breakout sessions
2:00pm to 3:00pm – conclusions and wrap-up

Zombie 1 Zombie 2

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Are YoU a Food Zombie?: How do we make better choices?

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Zombie-Food_smallFinal Report

Date: Monday March 4th, 2013
Location: 280N York Lanes
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm

Come and take action! 

Are you aware of food justice issues? Are your actions hurting disenfranchised people worldwide? Do you want to take action and make a difference here at York and beyond?

The purpose of this food unconference is to create a forum for students, staff, and faculty to have open conversations around social justice, human rights, sustainability, and food issues. The end goal is to create opportunities to work together in order to take action both personally and here at York University.

An unconference uses ‘open space technology’ to host a conference that allows participants to determine the agenda themselves at the start of the day within the scope of a particular topic. So YoU set the agenda!

Outline for the day:

9:30am to 10:00am – sign up and welcome
10:00am to 11:00am – introduction and setting the agenda
11:00am to 2:00pm – breakout sessions
2:00pm to 3:00pm – conclusions and wrap-up

This unconference is brought to you through the joint efforts of:

  • IRIS – Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability
  • the Centre for Human Rights
  • the President’s Sustainability Council

Lunch Sponsor: York University Food Services (CSBO):

 

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