On Thursday, St. Paul’s Greenhouse hosted a social impact showcase to celebrate the achievements of their Summer 2016 GreenHouse Fellows.
Masters of Environment and Business students, as well as other graduate students, staff and faculty, attended an engaging and informative armchair dialogue with Dr. Dianne Saxe, the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario.
Dr. Olaf Weber joins Linda Ryan, host of Voice America's new radio series, Building Banking on Values to discuss values-based banking, also known as ethical, regenerative, just or sustainable banking. It's focus is to put people before profit, and put banking back in service of the people, organizations and communities that make it possible.
Congratulations to Sustainability Management Master's Student Danielle Lindamood for being the recipient of the David Johnston International Experience Award and a Mitacs
The School of Environment, Enterprise and Development is excited to offer a new course exploring the theme of 'the commons'. Senior undergraduate students and all graduate students are encouraged to take this course. There is no pre-requisite to enroll in this course.
SUSM 675 The Commons Amidst Complexity and Change:
The Theory and Practice of Collective Action
Winter 2016
Course Instructor: Dr. Prateep Kumar Nayak
COURSE OVERVIEW
SEED's Dr. Bruce Frayne, lead researcher for the Hungry Cities Initiative talks about food security challenges that African cities are facing with CNBC Africa.
Dr. Olaf Weber shares insights into the financial and sustainability case for moving to a low-carbon economy in his Op-Ed for the KW Record. Read full text
St. Paul’s student Kaitlin Murray (fourth-year International Development) is the recipient of a Mitacs GlobalinkResearch grant, worth $5,000, which will allow her to work with a non-governmental organization called NIRMAN in India this term. Mitacs is an internationally known Canadian not-for-profit organization that supports research, training, and social innovation.
Dr. Olaf Weber discusses a recent analysis of Corporate Knights' Eco-Fund Ratings for 424 equity funds available to Canadian investors. The study analysed the impact of both carbon intensity and exposure to green companies listed on the Rating list.
Professor Jason Thistlethwaite discusses the opportunities to use data coming from the NASA satellite in decision making to protect coastal communities vulnerable to storms strengthened by an increase in the sea level. Read the full article on the Toronto Star.