September 17, 2014 marked the start of the Second Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development Practice (ICSDP) at Columbia University in New York City.
Discover how a University of Waterloo researcher and a group of Environment and Business students partnered with musician Jack Johnson to reduce the environmental impact of his tours and promote sustainability one concert at a time.
Student Profile: Master of Development Practice Alumni, Scott Bohachyk
Dr. Blair Feltmate, Chair of Climate Adaptation Project, shared insights about the reality of the new normal of extreme weather events. Listen to the full CBC interview.
Last week CSA Group flew five of our recent Environment and Business program students, Team Aveneer, and advising Adjunct Professor, Lynn Johannson to compete in the CSA Group Academic Challenge as part of their annual conference.
We want to congratulate Team Aveneer on placing as finalists in the competition!
Want to be the driver of positive change both locally and globally? After attending a guest lecture in the INDEV 101 lecture series by Dr. Michaela Hynie, identifying and understanding culture has been suggested a good place to start to create developmental change.
Graduating students from the Environment and Business (EB) undergraduate program in The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED) are in Charlottetown, PEI this week to compete as finalists in CSA Group’s 2014 National Academic Challenge.
“I sing to open my heart for connection and communication in the cultural response to global environmental change. I sing as a way to demonstrate my humanity and empathy for Inuit culture and our history of colonization and marginalization of these people. I sing as a way to process the knowledge I am surrounded by in this PhD work on Inuit and Arctic climate change.”
Social Innovations Within Markets Workshop brings academics and practitioners together