A farmer in Nova Scotia is growing saffron.

Farmers are adapting their crops to warming temperatures and climate change, says UBC SPPGA UBC IRES professor Dr. Navin Ramankutty.

via Toronto Star thestar.com/news/canada/no…

Few teens are taught decision-making as a skill that can be learned and nurtured, even though it's an invaluable skill relevant for big questions like views on climate change.

Curious about supporting this skill? Check out this book launch in Delta, BC! news.ubc.ca/2024/04/24/sup…

Every day, teens face decisions ranging from the mundane to life-altering.

A new book by UBC Education Brooke Moore and UBC IRES Robin Gregory provides a framework for parents to help support teens in making choices.

Read more: bit.ly/3xAKQL2

New research from the CCJ, Climate and Community Project, and Third World Network shows how governments are “exporting extinction.” Join us on Zoom to discuss this research and how to break the status quo of extractivism.

📆 Tuesday May 7 @ 09:00 PDT/12:00 EDT/16:00 UTC
📲 RSVP: tinyurl.com/CCJ-7May2024

For our April/May issue, University of British Columbia professor Kai Chan spoke to Alison Tedford Seaweed about his new project, an online community network called CoSphere, and what it would take to build a more sustainable future.

Read the full interview here:
broadview.org/climate-activi…

Congrats to Kate Lai Reynolds, winner of the MENA American Association of Geographers best student paper award (MA) for ''Slow Violence and Green Colonialism at the roots: The Disproportionate Harms of the Wild Za'atar Foraging Regulation in the West Bank' EDGES UBC IRES a wonderful presentation too!

.UBC IRES PhD student and surgical resident Dr. Annie Lalande co-led the Planetary Health Menu project which introduced plant-based and sustainable food choices to patients in hospital. via Vancouver Is Awesome vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/van…

We’re thrilled to announce the upcoming Wildfire Co-Existence in BC: Solutions Symposium!🔥

From innovative strategies to community resilience, we're coming together to tackle the wildfire challenge head-on.

🔗 Details: bit.ly/4asM89C
#UBCForestry FOS UBCO

SPPGA Honorary Research Associate Nathan J Bennett & Prof. Dr. David R. Boyd (SPPGA; UBC IRES) discuss how recognizing the human right to a healthy environment can shape ocean governance and drive positive change in their co-authored piece via npj Ocean Sustainability nature.com/articles/s4418…

A wonderfully insightful set of papers and shared insights for UW–Madison @MiddleEastStudies conference on Environment and Climate Change EDGES UBC IRES Samer Alatout Zakia Salime
#ZozanPehlivan #TessaFarmer #NancyReynolds #CiruceMovahedi -Lankarani

mideast.wisc.edu/annual-confere…

I was fortunate to appear in a new movie 'Close the Divide' to be screened at Vancouver International Film Festival, at 6pm April 22! Vancouver International Film Festival

The movie shows a gripping journey to bridge the deep divide on climate change, revealing how uniting diverse perspectives can spark

⭐ Next Thursday, three of our students are presenting their research on progress in sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa, Mexico and B.C.

We're wrapping up our Seminars with a flourish🎀! Join us before we go on a break until September 2024.
🔗ires.ubc.ca/april-18-2024-…

Sustainable farming pays off, #UBC scientists find.
'Take the best of what people were doing for many, many centuries, and bring it together with newer methodologies to make this really work,” says Dr. Claire Kremen (Claire Kremen).
UBC IRES UBC Zoology

castanet.net/news/BC/480434…

Diversification in farming — things like planting hedgerows as well as a diversity of crops to encourage pollinators🐝 and biodiversity 🦋—

shows joint benefits for farmers’ livelihoods, human well-being AND protecting the planet🌏!

Read more! doi.org/10.1126/scienc…

The Planetary Health pilot project, led by IRES grad student Annie Lalande, is leading to changes in menu offerings for patients across Vancouver Coastal Health!

The new menu items are delicious, nutritious and environmentally sustainable.

In 2021, ambient particulate matter air pollution was the leading global environmental risk factor accounting for 4.2% of all disease burden (4.7 million deaths).

Join us for Dr. Brauer's talk on the health impacts of environmental risk factors!
ires.ubc.ca/april-11-2024-…

Kai Chan's dialogue with Kai Scott TransFocus Consulting, Inc. is out tomorrow! cosphere.net/podcast

They cover a vision of a sustainable future that embraces a diversity of people as equals, whether they’re unlike us in their gender, sexuality, or in their understanding of these topics.

How can sustainable agriculture help us feed the world? UBC’s Dr. Navin Ramankutty (UBC IRES) looks at solutions.

Learn more: beyond.ubc.ca/balancing-sust…

Permanent open access: L Harris 2022. Learning from Aotearoa: Water Governance Challenges and Debates. New Zealand Geographer #watergovernance #NewZealand #decolonizingwater Decolonizing Water
University of British Columbia EDGES UBC IRES PoWG_UBC UBCSocialJusticeInst : hdl.handle.net/2429/87670

Join us next week for our final Geography Colloquium speaker series seminar with Dr. Christian Berndt from University of Zurich!

April 2nd, 12:30pm Pacific
Geog room 229 & Zoom
Event info: geog.ubc.ca/events/event/c…