Environment
by McGill University
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Description
Just as McGill’s lush downtown and Macdonald campuses serve as green oases on the urban island of Montreal, McGill’s endeavours in sustainability research and environmental stewardship attract important conferences and lectures from Quebec, across Canada and around the world. Nowhere is environmental teaching and research more pervasive than among McGill faculty members, who are engaged in projects including new models of climate change and work on water scarcity.
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| 1 | VideoIs there room for ecological conservation in the Oil Sands of Alberta? | -- | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 2 | VideoLea Berrang-Ford: Indigenous Health Adaptation to Climate Change | -- | 6/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 3 | VideoMake It Happen: Growing Toward Sustainability at McGill | A former two-time Canadian National Debating Champion while pursuing his Honours BA and MA at McGill in the 1990s, Gerald Butts knows a thing or two about the power of words. But he also knows how to put words into action. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 4 | VideoHow Might Global Warming affect the Variable Hydroclimate of Western Canada? | Canada’s western interior has one of the world's most variable climates, with severe drought and torrential rainstorms experienced in recent years. The extreme climate events ... | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 5 | VideoEnvironmental change in Canada’s Arctic: how different is the present from the past? | Arctic regions are experiencing high degrees of environmental change, including thinning of arctic sea ice, increased deposition of airborne pollutants, as well as evidence of ... | 3/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 6 | VideoEmpowering communities to manage their water supply | Students in the McGill School of Environment are developing Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb) technologies to help a group of citizens living near the Riviere Noire ... | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 7 | VideoLe GéoWeb au service du citoyen | Des étudiants de l’École d’environnement de l’Université McGill aident la Corporation de développement de la Rivière Noire, en Montérégie, a développé un outil visant à ... | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 8 | VideoShared Purpose: A Religious Response to the Climate Change | Reverend Canon Sally Bingham gives a religious perspective on global warming and climate change. This lecture was presented by the Faculty of Religious Studies and ... | 12/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Climate Change, Ecosystem Collapse and Cascading Regime Shifts in the Canadian Arctic | Warwick Vincent explains how global climate change will be increasingly accompanied by discontinuous shifts in aquatic ecosystem structue and function. | 5/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Save Our Sea(horses) | Almost mythical creatures, seahorses have the potential to capture the public imagination and inspire action for marine conservation. | 5/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 11 | VideoA Billion Vehicles and Counting: The Transport Energy Challenge | Motor vehicle numbers have been increasing more rapidly than the human population globally, with profound resource use, environmental, and health and welfare impacts at the ... | 3/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 12 | VideoEmerging Infectious Diseases: What Can We Learn from Primates? | The sudden appearance and devastating human and environmental effects of diseases like SARS, Ebola, and AIDS underscore our need to understand the ecology of infectious ... | 3/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 13 | VideoThe Future Balance of Nature | Prof. Andrew Gonzalez presents examples of how ecosystems can become imbalanced and the resultant effects this can have on their structure and function. | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 14 | VideoGlobal Warming: Caused by Humans? What Can We Do About It? | Prof. Nigel Roulet discusses ways to alter the current prognosis for Earth's climate by examining the relationships among greenhouse concentrations, population, consumption, energy, the economy, ... | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 15 | VideoFeeding the World: Ecosystem Services, Food Production and Sustainability | People depend on the services provided by ecosystems, including food, freshwater, biodiversity, places for recreation and climate regulation. Dr. Elena Bennett’s talk focuses on how ... | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 16 | VideoGlobal Swarming: How Invasive Species Are Changing the World | Driven by expanding human travel and trade, thousands of species of plants, animals and microbes are spreading into new regions faster and farther than at ... | 2/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 17 | VideoTrouble in the Tropics: Upsetting a Fragile Balance | For the last 20 years, Colin and Lauren Chapman have conducted research to measure the extent to which human actions are having a negative effect ... | 12/17/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 18 | VideoFighting for Food Security | Food insecurity is a huge global problem. McGill Bioresource Engineering Professor Vijaya Raghavan is revolutionizing farming practices in rural India. By reducing crop loss, he ... | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Melting Glaciers, What Gives? | Bruno Tremblay from McGill's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences examines the truth and fiction of melting arctic glacial ice. | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Mother Nature as a Green Materials Engineer | In this installation of “The Cutting Edge”, chemistry professor Christopher Barrett describes an emerging new guiding principle for materials development at McGill, based on bio-mimicry ... | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Energy and Climate Change | Dr. Andrew D. Miall (Professor of Geology at the Geology Department, University of Toronto) presents six popular myths that complicate the development of good public ... | 11/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 22 | VideoYouth Engagement and the Environment | Justin Trudeau, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau, discusses the necessity of individual action and stresses the need for increased environmental awareness ... | 5/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Storm Perfection | What is a perfect storm? To an atmospheric scientist, it is a storm in which several factors come together to make it especially catastrophic. The ... | 4/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 24 | VideoSciences végétales | Biocarburants, changement climatique, coût croissant de l'énergie, crise alimentaire mondiale, tels sont les champs d'intérêt du Pr Don Smith, directeur du Département de sciences végétales, ... | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 25 | VideoNumbers or Chicken Bones: Responses to an Uncertain Environmental Future | As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, the McGill School of Environment hosts a debate on whether environmental models have sufficient predictive power to move ... | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 26 | VideoPlant Science | Biofuels, climate change, rising energy costs, and the world food crisis - meet Plant Sciences Chair Don Smith, whose research teams are tackling the world's ... | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 27 | VideoMelting Polar Ice Caps | Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Professor Bruno Tremblay, one of Canada's leading researchers on global warming, goes to the Canadian Arctic to measure sea ice melt ... | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 28 | VideoFood and Fuel | Dr. Donald Smith is James McGill Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Science. His research interests are in the area of plant ecophysiology. | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 29 | VideoToo Late to Panic – Protecting Canada’s Water and Energy Supplies | Maude Barlow, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a group looking to stop the world commodification of water, and author of Blue Covenant: The Global ... | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| 30 | VideoCapitalism and the Environment – from Crisis to Sustainability | Distinguished American environmentalist James Gustave Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale, presents the Beatty Memorial Lecture. | 4/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
