In conversations with all sorts of people, on the topic of what I’m doing and why, I’m often struck by the muted response to how truly precarious our present moment in history really is. We are living at a time of severe ecological degradation and loss, in what […]
Protecting clean and accessible water in the Great Lakes is at a crossroads. Since Europeans arrived on Turtle Island (home to many Indigenous nations) water has been exploited to serve the needs of the state (the USA and Canada in the Great Lakes region) and the consumer economy. […]
Last summer, I did an internship at the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA). This internship was part of the Sustainability Network Environment and Economy Fellowship (SNEEF) Program, a partnership between the Faculty of Environmental Studies (FES) at York University and the Sustainability Network. The goal of SNEEF […]
by Michael Hennessy Picard (postdoctoral fellow @ McGill Law Faculty), Olivier Barsalou (professor of law, UQAM) & Tina Beigi (bioresource engineer & environmental auditor) Fig. 1 New York City Garbage artwork by Justin Gignac The climate talks in Bonn are now over. This 23rd Convention of the […]
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