The nine-part webinar series titled “Exploring Ethics: Lessons from COVID-19 and Other Catastrophes” kicks off on Wednesday, April 6 and will run on select Wednesdays from 10 to 11 a.m. until June 2022. With nine speakers participating across multiple continents, collaborating universities of this joint project include York University, Roskilde University and Arkansas Tech University. By […]
What really matters to you? This is the question that 7-generation Markham is trying to address to co-create the first 7-Generation City learning from the past and looking to the future to thrive in the present. EUC Professor José Etcheverry is leading York University’s engagement in this multi-stakeholder project seeking to re-examine community through intergenerational […]
What is the relationship between infrastructure and jurisdiction? How can remaking the material systems that sustain collective life enact Indigenous jurisdiction? How can the “just transition” to sustainable economies be imagined and infrastructured to foreground Indigenous knowledges and governance systems? These are the questions that Osgoode-EUC Professor Dayna Nadine Scott and project co-director Professor Heidi […]
The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is committed to providing accessible education, embracing diversity, and empowering all students as changemakers in their own lives and in the lives of others. To this end, we are Black Community Space The Black Community Space is an inclusive hub on campus dedicated to supporting Black and BIPOC […]
On Friday, May 20th 2022, Professor L. Anders Sandberg and fourth-year student Baillie Weiderick, both from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University, and Brian MacLean of Lost Rivers travelled together to attend and learn from a plant diversity workshop and medicine plant walk, hosted by Indigenous Elders and Anishinaabe teachers. The […]
A Toolkit for Course Instructors The Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change is committed to supporting the pedagogical needs of Black Students across the faculty. This Toolkit offers strategies related to (1) course syllabus, (2) course content, and (3) classroom facilitation to guide instructors on how to effectively demonstrate commitment to anti-Black racism in their […]
by Melina Damian, MES, Ontario Nature's Communications Coordinator When you think of a bird’s nest, what’s the first image that comes to mind? Probably a bunch of sticks and leaves bundled together – right? Unfortunately, for birds that live in urbanized areas, they often use anthropogenic debris (otherwise known as garbage) to build their nests. […]
Benjamin J. Kapron studies philosophies, understandings, and ways of thinking that generate, undergird, and uphold Canadian settler colonialism, particularly regarding understandings of Land and the other-than-human beings who together compose Land (animals, plants, waters, rocks, et cetera). While dominant settler thought may commonly understand Land to be a passive material object—the ground, or an expanse […]
Climate change has been identified as the "defining issue of our time" by many of the world's leading experts. Many now use the term "climate crisis" to stress the urgency with which we must act to achieve a just and sustainable future. Successfully addressing the challenges ahead will require, as the UN has stated, a […]
This show, Everything Slakens in a Wreck, is an explication of this moment we are in -- we are all trying to find our way in a maelstrom, a storm, a roller coaster ride of volatility and uncertainty, insecurity, and the wreckage of trauma. The exhibition is indeed a vision of a remarkable curator, Andil […]