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Countdown to Earth Hour: IRIS' Old to Gold fashion show highlights sustainability

Posted on 15 March 2011

York University students, faculty and staff are getting a jump on Earth Hour 2011 with Earth Hour, Every Hour, a special event tomorrow evening, March 16, from 4:30 to 9pm in the Winters College Master's dining hall. Hosted by the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) in collaboration with the Ecologically Conscious Organization and Schulich […]

History graduate student Andrew Watson talks zombies with TVO's "The Agenda"

Posted on 14 March 2011

Andrew Watson, a York graduate student in the Department of History and the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability, took part in a panel discussion about art and the science around zombies, on TVO’s “The Agenda” March 10. You can watch the clip on The Agenda's website. Braaaaaaaaaains! Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications […]

Professors report back to Arctic communities on International Polar Year Research

Posted on 25 February 2011

For two weeks in January, two York professors bundled into parkas and flew to Arctic villages along the proposed Mackenzie Valley pipeline. They were delivering valuable cargo – the results of their International Polar Year (IPY) research. Reporting back to the communities was a condition of receiving IPY research funding in 2007, and after three years […]

Work in a Warming World project to host discussion panel on green jobs January 20

Posted on 13 January 2011

‘Green jobs’ have been increasingly touted as the solution to job loss and environmental crisis. Will Canada transition to a cleaner economy that reduces greenhouse gas emissions and employs a new generation of workers? Are green jobs the only link between environmental policy and employment policy? Defining green jobs raises further questions. What is a […]

Annual IRIS sustainability survey to examine volunteerism and engagement

Posted on 11 January 2011

Every year, graduate assistants working with the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) do a campus survey on a sustainability theme. The first survey in 2006, asked students what they knew about climate change and resulted in more environmentally friendly course kits (see YFile, April 2, 2008); the second assessed the value of urban […]

November is Research Month: York celebrates with a series of events

Posted on 28 October 2010

Research Month celebrates the achievements and diversity of York University’s research community. Throughout November, the Vari Hall Rotunda will play host to displays and demonstrations featuring our faculty and graduate researchers. Drop by between 10 am and 2 pm each Wednesday to learn what York's researchers are doing. The Research Month index on York's Research […]

Professor Dawn Bazely, director of IRIS, on climate change and Hamilton-area deer populations

Posted on 19 October 2010

An expert in forest ecology is likening an animal rights group’s claim that deer aren’t a threat to Iroquois Heights Conservation Area to those who still deny climate change is underway, wrote the Hamilton Mountain News and the Ancaster News Oct. 14: Dawn Bazely, director of York University’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability […]

IRIS launches book calling for systemic changes to fight climate change

Posted on 6 October 2010

It's not enough to plant trees in exchange for carbon emissions in the fight to mitigate climate change, say York environmental studies Professor Anders Sandberg and York environmental studies master’s student Tor Sandberg in their new co-edited book Climate Change – Who’s Carrying the Burden?: The Chilly Climates of the Global Environmental Dilemma. Nor is […]

Interdisicplinary symposium focuses on education and climate change

Posted on 15 July 2010

Today, the shared experiences of those working in education and climate change is the central theme of a one-day symposium taking place at York University. Organized by the Faculty of Education, the Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair for Reorienting Teacher Education Towards Sustainability, […]

Osgoode professor launches book on imbalances in globalized governance

Posted on 6 April 2010

A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance, a new book co-authored by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Stepan Wood, shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance. The book will launch Wednesday, April 7, from 12:30 to 2pm in the Private Dining Room of the Executive […]