By Elena Kosolapova and Lynn Wagner. Reposted from IISD SDG Knowledge Hub, Jan 10, 2024. “Humanity is strongest when we stand together.” This was the gist of the UN Secretary-General’s message for New Year 2024. Describing 2023 as the year…
Why so much is going wrong at the same time Lots of things are going wrong. Does that make it a polycrisis? By Thomas Homer-Dixon. Published in Vox, Oct 18, 2023 Is the world facing a “polycrisis”? Is there even…
As SFU Sustainability’s Manager, Regenerative Systems Education, I was the lead researcher of this university-wide project in partnership with SFU International. The story below was published in SFU’s Faculty and Staff Dashboard on March 28, 2023. SFU staff members that…
By Cole Thompson, April 6, 2023. Reposted from The Steady State Herald. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is attracting great attention as working AI systems become accessible to the public. The AI claim is that it can digest the mass of…
Reposted from the Global CCE Blog on March 20, 2023. By Kristen Hargis & Marcia McKenzie. The message in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report released today is clear – while countries are progressing towards net neutrality, the…
From the 1972 Conference on Human Environment and the 1987 Brundtland Commission report to the 2002 and 2012 Earth Summits, the message has been loud and clear: the world needs to be on a more sustainable pathway quickly, if we…
Repost from The Lancet – originally published on October 20, 2021. Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing updated, new, and improved indicators each year, the Lancet…
