About Roberto del Castillo Fighting environmental crime with INTERPOL A self-described devil’s advocate, Roberto del Castillo says EUC taught him how to write and hone the critical thinking skills necessary for his role in project management and partnership development with INTERPOL (International Crime Police Organization). From wildlife poaching and the illegal trade in controlled animal […]
About Nicole Piercey While alumna Nicole Piercey’s career path might not have an obvious flow, she can tie a common thread of following her passions and a theme of public education and environmental outreach through it all.Piercey had originally applied to Education at York U and was offered Environmental Studies as an alternate when she […]
On Thursday, April 21 at 6:30 p.m., the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change (EUC) will host Earth Day with YorkU. This virtual event will honour Earth Day 2022 and highlight the positive change EUC is making for people and the planet. As a community, EUC believes that making positive change requires bold and diverse thinking, […]
In 2021, the York Las Nubes project in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC) launched the Grounded project in collaboration with the York Faculty of Health, York International, York Libraries, and Universidad Técnica Nacional (UTN) of Costa Rica, San Carlos Campus. Indeed, community is at the heart of York’s Las Nubes EcoCampus such […]
How have universities integrated the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) and what lessons might be learned and applied therein? This is the key question that Nicole Arsenault, MES alumnus and Program Director of York’s Office of Sustainability, sought to address in her MES Paper on The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating […]
At the ArtworxTO Hub West, 250 the East Mall, Etobicoke, a display is growing, quite literally, that looks to educate visitors on the relationship between the migrations of people and plants to the Toronto area. The installation is primarily sound-based and draws on award winning artist and PhD candidate Alexandra Gelis’ research on plants and […]
Fifty years ago the Club of Rome called for a transition from growth to equilibrium, as they demonstrated through The Limits to Growth that humanity could not sustain another hundred years of growth in material consumption, pollution, and population. Since then, humanity’s Ecological Footprint has doubled and overshot the planet’s carrying capacity. York University’s Ecological […]
Calvin Lakhan, PhD and Co-Investigator, Waste Wiki Project Eco-modulation is a term that is gaining significant traction in recent legislative discussions surrounding extended producer responsibility for packaging waste. While eco-modulation is not a new concept, its application to managing end of life packaging waste is still in its relative naissancey. This article attempts to shed […]
Welcome to the April 2022 edition of the EUC Research Update - bringing you highlights from research activities at York's Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change. We invite you to view our past updates on our Research News page. Research Spotlights Calvin Lakhan on eco-modulation: What is it, does it work, and how can it […]