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COVID-19 Q&A: How has the pandemic impacted the environment?

webfull — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 13:18:59 +0000

While the world has been locked down for much of the spring and summer, airplanes have been grounded, fishing fleets have sat mostly idle and cars have stayed parked in their driveway as people worked from home. What kind of impact has this had on the environment? And what lessons have we learned from the relatively quick pivot governments and citizens have made to combat the spread of COVID-19? Can we apply the same commitment and speed of mobilization to pressing issues like climate change?

Published: 28 August 2020

How Canada became an environmental outlier

webfull — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 18:12:06 +0000

OpEd by Tom Mulcair, former the leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada (2012-2017).

Fifty years ago, Canada became a major, credible player in the world of environmental protection with the creation of our first department of the environment by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau. That move was accompanied by a progressive vision that was critical of the unbridled growth which showed no regard to the consequences for life on our planet.

Published: 11 August 2020

Future Ready: The Advocate for a Better Anthropocene

webfull — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 14:33:07 +0000

McGill’s Elena Bennett wants you to imagine a radical, inspiring, and realistic future for our planet

When you think of the Earth 50 years from now, what do you see? Do you imagine desolate cities, scorched forests, dead oceans, lost biodiversity? Elena Bennett wants you to know the future doesn’t have to be bleak.

Published: 20 July 2020

McGill Prof wins prestigious award--and says that the economic system is a major factor in the decline of the Earth's ability to support complex life

webfull — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 15:42:55 +0000

Professor Peter G. Brown (Natural Resource Sciences) has been selected as the recipient of the US Society for Ecological Economics 2017 Herman Daly Award for outstanding contributions to the field of ecological economics.

Published: 18 July 2017

A New Geological Epoch, The Anthropocene

webfull — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 19:28:15 +0000

Scientists say it's time to declare a new geological epoch, one defined by human activity and the permanent mark it has left on the earth.

McGill Professor Peter Brown, director of Economics for the Anthropocene, is featured on CBC Radio News.

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Published: 11 January 2016