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ESS Lecture Series Schedule

Fall 2024 Term

ESS Lecture Series

Since 2010, the College of Sustainability has hosted a weekly ESS (Environment, Sustainability and Society) Lecture Series that is open to the public. Local and international scholars, journalists, social activists, artists, public intellectuals, and elders share their wisdom and experience on wide ranging topics related to environmental sustainability, social justice, Indigenous perspectives, and the impacts of the climate crisis.

For several semesters during the COVID pandemic, the lecture series was presented virtually on Zoom. Going forward, the series will be presented in a hybrid format 鈥� with most speakers presenting live, in person in the Ondaatje Auditorium in the McCain building as well as livestreaming to Zoom.

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures run Thursday evenings 7:15-8:35 p.m. in the Ondaatje Auditorium, 6135 University Avenue, Marion McCain Arts & Social Sciences building. All welcome. Free of charge.

Please write to sustlife@dal.ca for the Zoom link.

Group photo of 80-100 students in Ondaatje Auditorium wearing green "Leading Change" t-shirts.

Thursday 5 September 2024 - ESS Student Orientation Event (Mona Campbell atrium)

Open to all new and returning ESS (Environment, Sustainability and Society) students. Come and meet your profs and the office staff, check in with all the environmental student society tables, have a snack, and listen to the Sustainability String Band!

Mona Campbell Building atrium (1459 Lemarchant St.), 7:00-8:30 PM

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Thursday 12 September 2024 - ESS Alumni Panel Discussion

Ty Bryant (Eastlink), Kelsey Brasil (Efficiency Canada), Justin Cantafio (Farmers鈥� Markets Nova Scotia), Sheena Parris (NS Environment & Climate Change), and Shannon Wood (Net Zero Atlantic).

Come listen to a panel discussion with five outstanding ESS alumni who have all taken disparate paths to further education and in their careers. Bring your questions about the sustainability sector, how these grads stay positive and engaged, and best strategies for navigating SUST courses!

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Thursday 19 September 2024 - 2nd Annual Meinhard Doelle Legacy Lecture: Fostering Sustainability Takes a Village: The Collaborative, Relational, Future-Oriented Potential of Impact Assessment

Co-hosted with Marine & Environmental Law Institute (MELAW)

***Please note 7:15 p.m. start time!

Anna Johnston, West Coast Environmental Law

Anna Johnston, BA, LLM, is a public interest environmental lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, where her work focuses on environmental impact assessment, cumulative effects, and constitutional, biodiversity and climate law. She is a member of the Minister鈥檚 Advisory Council on Impact Assessment, co-chairs the Environmental Planning and Assessment Caucus of the Canadian Environmental Network, and has authored numerous reports, papers and book chapters on impact assessment and the constitutional division of powers. She has appeared before superior and appellate courts in BC and Alberta, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada.

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Thursday 26 September 2024 - Sustainable Innovations in Built Environment, Renewable Energy Transitions

Daniel Attoye, Architecture, De Montfort University

More info to come!

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Thursday 3 October 2024 - Fixing Food (film & discussion)

Our food has a huge carbon footprint. Fixing Food (Bullfrog Films) tells five stories of creative new ways to lower the cost. These short films look at five important areas where we can make changes鈥攆arming in the ocean and the air, finding new food sources, learning from Indigenous agriculture, and rescuing the food we already have. Fixing Food demonstrates the transformative capacity of the food system through innovation, creativity, and passion.

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THANKSGIVING WEEKEND - 10 OCTOBER 2024 - NO LECTURE

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Thursday 17 October 2024 - Annual RAM Myers Lecture: Addressing the Risks of Misinformation and Public Distrust

Co-hosted with the Dal Biology Department

More info to come!

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Thursday 24 October 2024 - The Environmental Crisis from the Long View: Putting Activism in Perspective

Janice Harvey, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB

After earning a B.Ed. in History (UNB 鈥�77), Janice Harvey spent 25 years working at the citizen鈥檚 environmental group Conservation Council of New Brunswick, first as Executive Director and then as Marine Conservation Program Director. In 2007, she returned to UNB, completing an MPhil in Policy Studies, and an Interdisciplinary PhD in Environmental Politics. While studying for her PhD, she began teaching in the Environment & Society program at St. Thomas University, where she is now Assistant Professor and program coordinator. Informed by her years in the environmental movement, her research interests include Green politics, discourses of unsustainability in energy transition politics, and climate activism as fourth wave environmentalism.

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Thursday 31 October 2024 - The High Environmental Costs of Extractive Industries in Nova Scotia

Joan Baxter, Halifax Examiner

Joan Baxter is an award-winning Nova Scotian investigative journalist and author of seven books. Today she is a regular contributor to the Halifax Examiner, but before that her work appeared in many national and international media. She was a correspondent for the BBC World Service in several African countries. Joan has also worked as a science writer for international research organizations on that continent and written many reports for international NGOs on the environmental and social impacts of extractive industries and land-grabbing in West Africa. Joan holds an MA in anthropology from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Journalism with Distinction from the University of King's College.

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Thursday 7 November 2024 - Using Indigenous Values to Guide Sustainability

Co-hosted with Sobey's Sustainable Oceans Conference

Elder Dr. Lorraine Whitman

Elder Dr. Lorraine Whitman is Grand Mother White Sea Turtle and President of the Native Women's Association of Canada. Born and raised in Middleton Nova Scotia, Lorraine graduated from Grant MacEwan Community College and the University of Alberta as a Rehabilitation Practitioner.听 She worked in her First Nation community of Glooscap for a total of 30 years, including 17 years as an elected councillor, Social Development Officer, and Education Councillor. In 2017 Lorraine was elected as the President of the Nova Scotia Native Women鈥檚 Association and in 2019 as the President of the Native Women's Association of Canada.听 Throughout her working career, she has advocated and defended the rights of Indigenous people,听Missing Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and the gender-diverse community. In 2022, Lorraine鈥檚 advocacy work and volunteerism were recognized with an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Acadia University.

Keynote for the 2024 Sustainable Oceans Conference: Tides of Tomorrow

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STUDY BREAK - 14 to 18 NOVEMBER 2024 - NO LECTURE

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Thursday 21 November 2024 -听Runaway Climate: How Understanding Our Geological History Can Help Us Avoid Repeating It.

Steven Earle, Thompson Rivers University

Dr. Steven Earle is a faculty member in the Open Learning division at Thompson Rivers University and an emeritus professor in Earth Science at Vancouver Island University. He is the author of two Earth Science textbooks and two non-fiction books: A Brief History of Earth鈥檚 Climate (2021) and Runaway Climate (2024). He lives with his family on a small island near to Vancouver Island where he is engaged in climate-change research, efforts to make governments take serious action on climate change, and community initiatives focused on adapting to a changing climate and reducing our climate-change impact.

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Thursday 28 November 2024 - NO LECTURE

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