| October 28, 2011 | INDEV/St. Paul's University College | is pleased to host Lucie Edwards, an award-winning Canadian humanitarian, diplomat and PhD candidate at Waterloo's Balsillis School of International Affairs. Lucie’s talk, “Bearing Witness: Fighting Apartheid Inside South Africa,” is part of INDEV’s Friday lunch seminar series, 12 to 1 PM, MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's University College. All are welcome.
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| October 14, 2011 | INDEV/St. Paul's University College | is pleased to present Susan Elliott, Dean of Applied Health Sciences, University of Waterloo. Susan’s presentation, “United Nations University and Global Health Issues“ is part of INDEV’s public seminar series , 12 to 1PM, MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul’s University College.
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| September 27, 2011 | Dr. Ratko Ristic, SEED Visitor | will be giving a talk at 7:00 p.m. in EV3 room 4412 entitled: Improving Ski Resort and Municipal Environmental Management to Support Local Economic Development in Serbia
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August 22- 26, 2011 |
Adriane MacDonald (LED Master's student) |
is presenting at the Eco-Cities Summit in Montreal, a co-authored policy brief with Dr. Amelia Clarke on costing collaborative sustainability strategy implementation structures.
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August 12- 16, 2011 |
Dr. Asadul Hoque (Post Doc fellow) |
is presenting at the Academy of Management conference in Texas, a co-authored paper with Dr. Amelia Clarke on the implementation of collaborative strategies.
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| July 2-5 2011 | Dr. Olaf Weber | is presenting at the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC) conference in Montreal. The topic is The Integration of Sustainability Risks into the Credit Rating Process of Canadian Banks.
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| July 2 - 5, 2011 | Asadul Hoque (Post Doc fellow) and Dr. Amelia Clarke |
are presenting at the Administrative Science Association of Canada (ASAC) conference in Montreal. The topic is on The Greening of Industries: The Role of Civil Society in Bangladesh.
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| June 20-23, 2011 | Dr. Olaf Weber | is presenting Sustainability Performance and Financial Performance and on Teaching Environmental Finance: Rationale, student feedback, recommendations for developing similar courses in other universities at the Canadian Responsible Investment Conference 2011.
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| June 8, 2011 | Dr. Olaf Weber | is presenting Impact Investing and Social Banking at Alternative Bank, Switzerland in Olten, Switzerland.
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June 7 - 10, 2011 |
Dr. Steven Young | is at the International Society for Industrial Ecology ISIE 2011 in Berkeley, USA presenting research with graduate student Bianca Sayan.
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| June 6, 2011 | Dr. Steven Young | is at the Supply-chain Carbon Footprint workshop in Berkeley, California.
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| June 2011 | Dr. Olaf Weber | published Financial Performance of RI Funds After 2000 in the book Responsible Investment in Times of Turmoil .
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May 31-June 2, 2011 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is in Fredericton, New Brunswick attending the annual meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of Interntional Development (CASID). Dr. Swatuk is the conference chairperson (see http://www.casid-acedi.ca/).
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May 26, 2011 |
Dr. Amelia Clarke | is guest speaker for a webinar to the Natural Step Canada Exchange Network. See http://www.naturalstep.org/fr/canada/upcoming-sustainability-dialogue-collaborative-community-sustainability-strategies
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| May 23, 2011 | Dr. Olaf Weber | Publication of Social Banks and the Future of Sustainable Finance in The World Financial Review, May-June 2011.
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May 16 - 19, 2011
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Dr. Frances Westley | will chair a session on sustainable development at the third Nobel Laureate Symposium on Global Sustainability, which will take place May 16 to 19 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm.
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May 10 -13, 2011 |
Dr. Amelia Clarke | is presenting at the Community-University Expo in Waterloo. The topic is on partnerships for achieving regional sustainable development.
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May 5-6, 2011 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is in Gothenburg, Sweden delivering a keynote speech on Climate Change and Global Peace, Security and Development at the PCDRNET Biannual conference (see http://www.peacenetwork.se/ ).
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April 10-11, 2011 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is at the University of Puget Sound attending an international workshop and discussion about ways to forge better partnerships between scholars, students, and activitsts working in and on environmental policy issues.
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April 8, 2011 |
Dr. Steven Young | is at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of
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| April 8, 2011 | SEED students | at EcoCAR event and presentation, on the UWAFT team at Waterloo.
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| April 8, 2011 | Dr. Olaf Weber | blogs on the future (and past) of social banking on social finance.ca: http://socialfinance.ca/blog/post/social-banks-and-the-future-and-past-of-sustainable-finance
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April 1-2, 2011 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is delivering a keynote speech on Environment and Development at the Queen's University International Development Conference (see http://www.qidc.org/index.html).
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March 29, 2011 |
David Miller | former mayor of Toronto, is giving a talk in Hagey Hall room 1108 at 4:00 p.m. The title of the talk is "Climate Change and Cities: Urban Leadership in Canada and Around the World".
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| March 26, 2011 | Dr. Larry Swatuk | is moderating a panel on voluntourism in the Students Association for International Development (SAID) conference in MacKirdy Hall, St Paul's University College, University of Waterloo (see http://envblogs.uwaterloo.ca/blogs/said/student-conference-on-international-development/program-events).
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| March 24, 2011 | Victoria Allyene | 3B Environment and Business student, was awarded a Co-op Student of the Year Award. Victoria has been recognized for an "exemplary workplace performance" on a 2010 work term. Congratulations Victoria! |
| March 22, 2011 | Dr. Tara Vinodrai | is presenting a paper on creativity, innovation and sustainability at the Centre for Innovation, Research, and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE) at Lund University in Sweden.
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| March 22 - 24, 2011 | Drs. Amelia Clarke and Goretty Dias | are attending Americana in Montreal. Dr. Amelia Clarke will present in the session on Sustainable Development Tools.
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March 17, 2011 |
Dr. Olaf Weber | is a guest speaker at the Social Banks and Impact Investing Seminar, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Paul Martin Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University. Visit http://www.lauriernetimpact.com/index.php?p=51 for more information and to register.
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March 15-18, 2011 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is delivering two research papers (on transboundary water governance in Southern Africa, and on the challenges of providing water to African cities) at the 52nd annual meeting of the International Studies Association in Montreal (see http://www.isanet.org/montreal2011/).
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March 3-5, 2011 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is giving a keynote speech on Water, Conflict and Development at Dal Water Week, hosted by the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia (see http://www.dalwaterweek.com/).
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February 21-25, 2011 |
Drs. Larry Swatuk and Bruce Frayne | are in Turrialba, Costa Rica attending the annual global summit of MDP programs. The meeting is hosted by CATIE - The Regional Centre for Tropical Agriculture Research (see http://mdp.ei.columbia.edu/?id=uni_catie)
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February 8 - 10, 2011 |
Dr. Amelia Clarke | is presenting at the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM)’s Sustainable Communities Conference in Victoria, BC. The topic is on the Implementation of Integrated Community Sustainability Plans (ICSPs).
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January 23, 2011 deadline
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Attention: Students | Impact! The Co-operators Youth Program for Sustainability Leadership. Click here for more details. |
January 17-19, 2011 |
Dr. Olaf Weber | joins the Social Innovation and Finance Tour 2011 in Vancouver. Click here for more information.
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December 7-8, 2010 |
LED students |
are holding their end-of-term conference in EV1-132. Click here for the agenda.
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December 7, 2010 |
SEED | has two free passes to this event: Technical Workshop: Overcoming Challenges in GHG Inventories
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| November 26th, 2010 | INDEV | is pleased to host John van Mossel, a UW Faculty of Environment grad, as part of the INDEV 10 seminar series, (2 - 3PM) in MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's University College. John is currently the project manager for "Building Nigeria's Response to Climate Change," a 5-year $4.75 million Canadian International Development Agency-funded project that includes community projects, socio-economic research, and policy development, and partnerships with Nigerian NGOs, government agencies, and CIDA. John will talk about this project and his 30-plus years of experience integrating environmental management and international development in Africa and the Caribbean. Welcome faculty, staff and students.
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| November 24-26, 2010 | Dr. Larry Swatuk | is in Uppsala, Sweden delivering a keynote address at the annual meeting of the Swedish Peace Network. The focus of his address is 'Water Issues on the International Agenda - The Merging of Two Vital Fields'. The link to the meeting is here: http://www.peacenetwork.se/?events=seminar-launches-new-water-network
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November 23, 2010 |
SEED | has 2 free passes to this event:
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November 19, 2010 |
International Development | is hosting David Pell, Executive Director of Street Kids International, at St. Paul's University College from 2:00pm-3:30pm in MacKirdy Hall. His lecture "Street Business for Urban Youth in Kenya" is open to everyone. Learn more about David Pell
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November 12, 2010
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Jack Rosen Memorial Award for Environmental Innovation |
Do you have an innovative idea that could solve, mitigate or avoid an environmental problem? If so, you could win $2,500! All full-time undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in the Faculty of Environment are eligible to submit an innovative idea (device, process, or method) which could solve, mitigate or avoid an environmental problem. http://www.environment.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/jackrosen/ Deadline: February 25, 2010
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November 10, 2010 |
International Development /SEED | is hosting a Roundtable on Food Security and Sustainability. EV1-221 Wednesday, November 10th, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Speakers: Jennifer Clapp, Bruce Frayne, Joseph Hulse, and Steffanie Scott. Moderated by Larry Swatuk, INDEV Program Director.
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| November 8, 2010 | Export Development Canada (EDC) | announces the 13th annual competition for international business scholarships.
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October 29, 2010 |
Dr. Neil Craik | will be leading a discussion on the role of international environmental law in Canadian domestic courts at the Canadian Council in International Law’s annual conference in Ottawa.
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October 29, 2010 |
International Development | is pleased to host award-winning Beijing journalist and environmentalist Dai Qing, Friday, October 29, 2 to 4 PM, MacKirdy Hall, St. Paul's University College. Dai Qing's talk is "Why China's Three Gorges Was Dammed: A Journalist's Retrospective."
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October 29, 2010 |
Dr. Neil Craik | will deliver a paper on scholarship and pedagogy in Canadian law journals at the Second National Law Journal Conference at Queen's University Law School.
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October 23-30, 2010 |
Dr. Larry Swatuk | is in Dushanbe, Tajikistan overseeing the application of his Conflict Resolution Training Manual in a joint Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) - United Nations Development Program (UNDP) training exercise on Conflict Resolution and Negotiation for Integrated Water Resources Management. The link to the training manual is here: http://www.cap-net.org/sites/cap-net.org/files/Conflict%20Manual%20Final%20170908.pdf
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October 21, 2010 |
Dr. Steven Young |
is at the Canadian Business for Social Responsibility conference in Toronto.
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October 18-22, 2010 |
Dr. Neil Craik | will be leading graduate seminars on legal approaches to environmental risk, precaution and innovation and will also present research on North American climate governance at the Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines as a Global Fellow in their Eco-innovation program.
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October 14, 2010 |
Dr. Blair Feltmate/Sustainability Practices | is holding a public seminar: "Sustainable Development: Value Creation and Due Diligence Protection". More information is available from Shelley Knischewsky.
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October 12, 2010 |
Dr. Olaf Weber | is giving a talk at Schulich School of Business, York University, on historical development, concepts and practice of sustainable banking and finance.
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October 2010 |
Barry O'Doherty, EB undergraduate student, |
won two essay scholarships; one from the Water Environment Association of Ontario and the other from Export Development Canada. |
October 8, 2010 |
Drs. Olaf Weber and Blair Feltmate/Sustainability Practices | are leading a discussion group during a "lunch and learn" at the head office of Jantzi Sustainalytics in Toronto. |
October 5, 2010 |
Dr. Blair Feltmate | is participating in a National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy in Ottawa.
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October 4, 2010 |
Social Innovation Generation | is hosting Michael Quinn Patton for a speaking and book signing event.
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October 2010
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Dr. Larry Swatuk | has collaborated with a colleague at Dalhousie University to create a new e-publication. |
October 1, 2010 |
Dr. Blair Feltmate | is attending the launch of the Climate Change Adaptation Project: Canada.
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September 23-24, 2010 |
Dr. Neil Craik |
is running a high-level international workshop called “Designing Integration: Regional Cooperation on Climate Change Law & Policy in North America”.
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September 9, 2010 |
Dr. Steven Young |
is at a Board of Directors quarterly meeting of Sustainable Waterloo.
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August 16-27, 2010 |
Master of Environment and Business |
inaugural class is held for two weeks in August.
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July 12, 2010 |
Dr. Steven Young |
is at the Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology in New Hampshire as an invited attendee.
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| June 30, 2010 | Dr. Blair Feltmate | joins the Board of Directors of Pollution Probe. |
June 22 - July 2, 2010 |
Dr. Steven Young and Dr.r Amelia Clarke |
are in China where they meet with our 2+2 partners in the Environment and Business program at Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, and visit Wuhan University.
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May 22-25, 2010 |
Dr. Amelia Clarke | wins the award for the Best Paper for the Socially Responsible Division of ASAC at the 2010 conference, with co-author Rosa Kouri, Oxford University. The paper is on Green Jobs Discourse. |
| May 2010 | Dr. Amelia Clarke | is recognized with an Honourable Mention citation in the ONE Best Dissertation competition. |
| May 7, 2011 | Steven Young | presented a research seminar at University of Waterloo titled" Vegetarian Lunches and Recycled Content: A tour with environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)" |
April 23, 2010 |
Dr. Olaf Weber | is invited to give talk at the NSSI Colloquium 2010 in Zurich. |
March 26, 2010 |
Dr. Blair Feltmate | is the keynote speaker at the University of Guelph's Kenneth Hammond Lectures on Environment, Energy and Resources. Lecture title: " Bringing Industry Sectors On-Board to Sustainable Development: A Case Study of the Canadian Electricity Association”.
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February 3-4, 2010 |
LED students | attend EDCO. |
February 2, 2010 |
Dr. Amelia Clarke | is quoted in Globe and Mail article on Credo Bags. |
| February 2, 2010 | Dr. Larry Swatuk | participates in the official launch of the global Master's in Development Practice in Dehli. |
| January 27, 2010 | Dr. Steven Young | chaired an education forum on "The Implications of Copenhagen". Hosted by www.SustainableWaterloo.org, experts discussed their attendance at and outcomes of the UNFCCC climate change discussions. |
November 6, 2009 |
Business Not as Usual ... read all about the official launch of SEED. | |
May 1, 2009 |
Stephanie Vanthof (EB student) | wins a prestigious OGS (Ontario Graduate Scholarship). Congratulations! |
