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Item Open Access Affordable, Developer-Friendly and Green: New direction for residential building that can please all stakeholders.(The Design Exchange, 2003) Rappaport, BryanItem Open Access Autoshare: WHY OWN A CAR WHEN YOU CAN SHARE ONE?(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Satok, JonItem Open Access BACK TO NATURE: The Biowall returns clean air to commercial spaces.(The Design Exchange, 2003) Doody-Hamilton, ChristineItem Open Access Busby + Associates Architects: Setting the Standard for Green Building Design(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Bacigalupo, RochelleItem Open Access Changing the Way We Build: Architects and Engineers Get Together(The Design Exchange, 2003)Item Open Access Cool Shops: Greening the Small Retail Sector(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Nesbitt, RonItem Open Access Craik: Sustainable Living in Rural Saskatchewan(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Dilamarter, KevinItem Open Access Crannog Ales: Canada’s Only Organic Farmhouse Brewery(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Dunbar, MichaelItem Open Access ECOgent Environmental Solutions: Super Cleaning Without Harming(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Subramanian, ChandraItem Open Access Future Acqua Farms: Food for Thought(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Howard, PeterItem Open Access Go Bike: New Folding Bike Promotes a Two-Wheel Urban Culture(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Turner, BryceItem Open Access Hempola Valley Farms:(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Balance, VickiItem Open Access How Will Disenfranchised Peoples Adapt to Climate Change? Strengthening the Ecojustice Movement(IRIS, York University, 2010-10) Klenk, Nicole Lisa; Bazely, Dawn; Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)The fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) acknowledged that millions of people are currently, and will increasingly be, affected by the impacts of climate change, in the form of floods, droughts and other extreme events, as well as related threats to food security. In response to these global environmental changes, the international community, including civil society, is acting on the need for immediate adaptation measures and is developing strategies for future adaptation. However, the impacts of climate change are unevenly distributed, with many of the poorest, most vulnerable peoples experiencing the immediate effects of climate change, in the here and now. As the IPCC noted, developing countries are disproportionately affected by climate change and often, the least able to adapt due to lack of infrastructure and resources. The first, of what we hope will be many Ecojustice-themed Conferences, was held at York University in 2009. The idea for the conference came out of a conversation that York University’s Sheila Embleton (Vice-President Academic) and Adrian Shubert (Associate Vice-President International) had, on a trip to South America, with Miriam Duailibi, Director of the ECOAR Institute for Citizenship in Brazil, an NGO formed after the 1992 Earth Summit. Miriam expressed her frustration at how many conferences on climate change tend to feature academics and others from the Global North lecturing the Global South about how to respond to climate change. Miriam challenged York University to hold a different kind of conference, at which the Global North would be the audience, hearing about the circumstances, needs and realities of people in developing countries as well as how local peoples are responding to these challenges. A steering committee was formed in Fall 2008, and the scope of the conference was broadened to include voices from South Africa and India. Most significantly, the First Nations and Inuit presented the Canadian viewpoint. The conference brought together activists and academics from the Global South and the North to discuss adaptation to climate change.Item Open Access The Idea of a Radio Series(2000-03-28)Item Open Access Jackson-Triggs Winery:(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Sainsbury, WhelenaItem Open Access Looolo: Living Textiles(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Troper, CarlaItem Open Access Markets Initiative, Raincoast Books, New Society Publishers:(Corporate Knights Magazine, 2005) Storfer, JayItem Open Access Microfinance as a Tool for Development(2003-03-05) Roy, Marc-AndréItem Open Access Missing the Boat on Invasive Alien Species: A Review of Post-Secondary Curricula in Canada(Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education, 2011-03) Smith, Andrea L.; Bazely, Dawn; Yan, Norman D.Invasive alien species (IAS) cause major environmental and economic damage worldwide, and also threaten human food security and health. The impacts of IAS are expected to rise with continued globalization, land use modification, and climate change. Developing effective strategies to deal with IAS requires a collaborative, interdisciplinary approach, in which scientists work co-operatively with social scientists and policy-makers. Higher education can contribute to this process by training professionals to balance the ecological, economic, and social dimensions of the IAS problem. We examined the extent of such training in Canada by reviewing undergraduate and graduate university curricula at all 94 member institutions of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada for IAS content. We found that degree and diploma programs focusing on IAS issues are lacking at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Furthermore, few courses are devoted solely to IAS, and those that are typically adopt an ecological perspective. We argue that the absence of interdisciplinary university curricula on IAS in Canada negatively aff ects our ability to respond to this growing global challenge. We present several international educational programs on IAS as case studies on how to better integrate training on invasive species into university curricula in Canada. Les espèces exotiques envahissantes (EEE) sont à l’origine d’importants dommages écologiques et économiques partout dans le monde, en plus de menacer la sécurité alimentaire et la santé humaine. On s’attend à ce que leurs eff ets prennent de l’ampleur devant la poursuite de la mondialisation, l’évolution de l’utilisation des sols et les changements climatiques. L’élaboration de stratégies efficaces pour contrer les EEE exige une approche coopérative et interdisciplinaire, par laquelle des scientifiques travaillent en collaboration avec des spécialistes en sciences sociales et des responsables de l’élaboration de politiques. L’enseignement supérieur peut y contribuer en formant des professionnels à trouver un équilibre entre les dimensions écologiques, économiques et sociales du problème des EEE. Nous avons étudié la portée d’une telle formation au Canada en révisant les programmes d’études universitaires des premier et second cycles de chacun des 94 établissements membres de l’Association des universités et collèges du Canada. Nous en avons conclu que les programmes menant à un grade ou à un diplôme et ciblant les problèmes liés aux EEE font défaut aux établissements postsecondaires canadiens. En outre, peu de cours se concentrent uniquement sur les EEE, et ceux qui le font adoptent habituellement une approche écologique. Nous faisons valoir que le manque de programmes universitaires interdisciplinaires portant sur les EEE au Canada entrave notre capacité à aff ronter ce défi mondial croissant. Nous présentons plusieurs programmes éducatifs internationaux sur les EEE, à titre d’études de cas pour mieux intégrer la formation sur les espèces envahissantes aux programmes universitaires du Canada.