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Cultivating urban naturalists: Experiential education through nature

Professor Traci Warkentin’s interdisciplinary work examines the intersections of experiential learning, place/context, environmental ethics, and human-animal relationships. Her interests in the ethical, educational, and cognitive dimensions of human-animal encounters were inspired by her experiences working at the Vancouver Aquarium during her undergraduate years having pursued a B.Sc. in Honours in Biology from UBC, an M.A. […]

Examining public awareness of bees and the need for pollinator conservation

What is the buzz about bees? Why do we need to protect the well-bee-ing of bees? How concerned are you about the health of honeybees and the conservation of wild, native bees? Who is responsible for the protection of wild native bee populations in Canada? These are some of the questions that a team of researchers […]

Engaging community stakeholder groups in health research

For more than a decade, Professor Sarah Flicker has been engaged with various community stakeholder groups and allied practitioners in health equity research. In line with her combined roles as York Research Chair (Tier2) in Community-Based Participatory Research and Environmental Arts and Justice Coordinator, Flicker actively extends her capacity-bridging approach with urban and rural racialized youth and women in conducting […]

Finding the emotional capacity for animal advocacy

Opinion piece written by Rachel Plotkin MES'96 At a virtual news conference last week, Sen. Murray Sinclair and Jane Goodall proposed a bill to ban new captivity of great apes and elephants in Canadian zoos. If Sinclair’s name rings a bell, it’s because he was chief commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada — a spokesperson who […]

Protests in Hong Kong and Thailand: A Politics of Hysteria or Perversion?

What is remarkable about the spate of protests in Hong Kong and Thailand in recent months is their tenacity. Despite state intimidation and violence in both places, demonstrators have kept up their fight, at least until lately. In Thailand, waves of demonstrations, composed mostly of high school and university students, have risked heavy-handed police tactics […]

Canada's newest nuclear industry dream is a potential nightmare

SMRs are hardly the clean technology needed for the next generation and they’re unlikely to turn a profit. This year, the federal government has made apparent its enthusiasm for the nuclear industry’s latest dream – small modular reactors (SMRs). Following up on an SMR “Action Plan” released last July, it recently provided a $20-million investment to an Oakville, ON-based […]

Evacuated amid COVID-19, Canadian First Nation waits for clean water

TORONTO, Nov 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When an oily sheen was discovered on the surface of the local water reservoir in October, Canada’s Neskantaga First Nation was forced to close off the pipes and move. Isolated in remote northern Ontario, accessible only by plane or on winter roads, nearly all 300 residents evacuated to […]

York paper part of journal's special collection on health promotion in Indigenous communities

A paper out of York University is included in a special collection of Health Promotion Practice that focuses on health engagement, knowledge and participating in Indigenous communities. A journal of the Society for Public Health Education, Health Promotion Practice has curated eight papers published in 2020 that focus on Indigenous health, and has made the collection open access. The […]

How leading Canadian activist Tzeporah Berman got Facebook, Victoria’s Secret and more companies to go green

(JTA) — Tzeporah Berman did not set out to be an environmental activist. Raised in a Jewish family outside Toronto, she dreamed of becoming a fashion designer and after high school moved into the city to enroll in a fashion arts design program at Ryerson University. Fast forward three decades and Berman, 51, is one […]

EUC celebrates its geographers

November 16-20 is Geography Awareness Week, an international celebration of Geography as a field of research and learning. Geography is an interdisciplinary discipline that brings together many forms of knowledge. Geographers seek to understand how space shapes, and is shaped by, social relations, and they study the physical processes and human impacts that create our […]