In an article published in The Conservation, Trevor Swerdfager and Derek Armitage argue that Canada urgently needs ambitious new biodiversity law if we are to make meaningful progress in addressing the biodiversity crisis facing Canada today.Â
Fossil fuels are widely used all across the economy, including in food systems. Dr. Jennifer Clapp has been working with colleagues on a new project that seeks to uncover where we rely on fossil fuels in our food system to assess where and how we can shift away from them. In one podcast episode, she walks through fossil energy use associated with a typical bag of corn chips.
Dr. Jennifer Clapp's article in The Conversation argues that hunger persists across the world because we allow injustice and inequality to endure. If we are serious about ending it, we need bold political action, not just scientific breakthroughs.
ERS 318 Photography for Sustainability wrapped up another successful Open House on December 3, 2024. Twenty students took the course this year, drawn from five of the six UW faculties, and from all five academic units in the Faculty of Environment.
Beth Grant's MES research aimed to better understand students’ emotional experiences in post-secondary environmental education.
Having lost his sheep, Stephen Quilley contrasts a top-down, global-liberal approach to sustainability with a more localist, communitarian politics of post-liberals, through the lens of the livestock industry.