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The Environmental Humanities Network (EHN) at the University of Waterloo brings together scholars, practitioners, community groups, and artists under the banner of the Environmental Humanities. Broadly defined, the Environmental Humanities seek to interdisciplinarily understand and address pressing environmental problems by employing humanistic methods that attend to, for example, ethics, values, design, cultures, and communication–in short, caring for both the planet and humanity.

We bring together arts-based research and teaching methods with environmental data to examine the most pressing problems facing a sustainable future: a rising climate; biodiversity loss; deforestation; ocean acidification; air, water, and soil pollution. The EHN involves both the arts and sciences, and is an interdisciplinary hub that promotes collaboration and cross-talk between universities, community organizations, and citizen scientists. Members of the EHN work both internally and cross-institutionally to examine and disseminate knowledge about environmental sustainability as represented in the UN 17 Global Sustainability Goals, with a focus on arts-based outputs that persuasively move people to action.

The EHN is made up of a group of interdisciplinary teachers and researchers at the University of Waterloo, UWaterloo-based Affiliate groups, and non-UWaterloo institutional Partners. If you are interested in the Environmental Humanities and are looking for a networked community whose projects and priorities support ethical engagement with the environment, please join us!