Past Speakers
Sustainability Lecture Series
Launched in 2019-20, this lecture series brings together local expertise and global innovation across all fields of sustainability. Meet scholars from the 海角社区 and beyond in fields ranging from engineering to ecology, public health to poetry, native studies to nanotechnology.
The tables below show an overview of the speakers, talk titles, and access to recordings (if available):
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Breanne Aylward and Hannah Baynei | Climate change and our health | N/A |
Sustainable Development Goals Students' Alliance | Climate Cafe and Lip Balm Making Workshop | N/A |
Wajed El-Halabi, Alberta Council for Global Cooperation | Global Citizens not Global Robbers: In Classrooms, Internships, Travel, and Beyond | N/A |
Sarah DeLano | Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Stewardship | N/A |
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Jemimah Njuki | Re-imagining solutions for gender equality in a time of crisis | N/A |
Canada’s households and the zero carbon transition |
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Strategy for Sustainable Transitions |
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Innovation for Sustainable Smart Cities & Regions |
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Tackling Critical Evacuation Challenges with Human-Centered Approaches | ||
, , , , , | Selling Sustainability: Animal Agriculture's Disinformation Tactics | |
Crowdsensing-based Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Accessibility Status | ||
The Poetry of Garbage in Contemporary Brazilian Culture | ||
Carbon in Spatial Design: Embodied and Operational | ||
Saving Italy from Big Oil | N/A | |
REVIERa – a platform approach for regional sustainability transitions | ||
Karen Lee | Opportunities to Synergize Health and Sustainability Outcomes through the Healthy Community Guidelines | |
What does Sustainability mean in High-Latitude Cities? | N/A | |
Fuel Science: Sustainable Mobility Based on Renewable Resources | ||
Sustainability and Spatial Justice: A focus on recreational sites and facilities | ||
Public Acceptance of Carbon Capture and Storage in Canada. |
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Low Carbon Energy Transition | ||
The Role of Culture and the Arts in the Climate Emergency | ||
"nîya ayisiyiniw ôma ohci asiskiy" I am a human-being of this earth. |
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Building Equity in Planning Practice | ||
Normalizing Sustainability: beyond behaviour change | ||
Precision agriculture meets precision sustainability: the merits of making fields messy | ||
The Stories That Trees Tell: Insights into urban environments and beyond from tree-rings | ||
The Gate Keepers: Engaging Men in Gender Justice and Girls Education in Northwest Pakistan and Afghanistan | ||
Healthcare in a Climate Crisis: The Need for Sustainable Health Systems | ||
Does Coffee have a future? | N/A | |
Municipal Grassroots Environmental Activism with Waste Free Edmonton | ||
Beyond Counting Carbon: Universities, communities and the climate crisis |
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Hidden Waste: Lean construction for sustainability | ||
Estimating and predicting greenhouse gas emissions from tailing ponds | ||
Climate Change and Public Health (new IPCC report)
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Dishing the Dirt on Soil Invertebrates and Sustainability | ||
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How can we afford the future we must build together? | ||
Indigenous Law and Public Legal Education | ||
Doughnut Economics for Thriving Communities with Ben Geselbrecht | N/A | |
Climate Change Theatre Action - UAlberta | N/A | |
Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster | ||
Decolonial Approaches to Land, Labor, & Fashion with Aditi Mayer | N/A | |
Intersections of COVID-19 and the climate emergency |
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Engineering community benefits: local engagement in practice | ||
Edmonton Mayoral Candidate Climate Debate | ------- | |
Visit an ancient tropical forest |
Speakers | Talk Title | Other info |
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Indigenous Healing Plants | ||
Hidden Waste: Lean construction for sustainability | N/A | |
Biomimicry: Design inspired by nature | ||
Tar Sands Songbook | ||
Land-based Food Security in Northern Indigenous Communities | ||
Geeta Belas | Bridging the Gender Gap with Design | |
Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People | N/A | |
The Banff School of Fine Arts and the Public University | ||
Green Capitalist Realism, CO2lonialism, and the Urban Climate Insurgency | ||
The Route to Reinvention | ||
Degrowth in the Time of COVID-19 | ||
Into the Arctic | N/A | |
COP Hack: Student Engagement | ||
Synergy and Creativity in a Pandemic World | ||
Chelsea Miya Oliver Rossier Geoffrey Rockwell |
Right Research book launch | N/A |
Ecosystem restoration in coral reefs and boreal forests |
Speaker | Talk Title | Other info |
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Genomic Media / Sustainable DNA | N/A | |
The Green Sheikh | N/A | |
Perilous Voyages: Art, environment and the search for a global commons | N/A | |
Beautiful Trouble: Imagining sustainable energy futures | N/A | |
Stefano Muneroni | Climate Change Theatre Action | N/A |
No Canary, No Coal Mine: Understanding sustainability for rural communities in Alberta | N/A | |
Infrastructure, Fish and Indigenous & Traditional Peoples in Brazil's Amazon | N/A | |
Forest Sustainability: Policy, social values and climate change | ||
Homo Economics and Forgetful Curriculum | ||
Moving Beyond Organic? Ecological farming and local food trends in Alberta | ||
Anchoring the Climate Commons - Slave Ship Earth | N/A | |
Green Drinks: Food and Climate Change | N/A | |
COP 101: Understanding the UN Climate Talks | N/A | |
Energy In/Out of Place | N/A |
Sustainability Keynote Speakers
"An innovative speaker can revolutionize how we see the world." The Sustainability Keynote Speakers bring renowned leaders from all over the world to speak on sustainability issues such as climate change, just development, clean tech and pollution. Lectures are free and open to the public, including alumni and community members.
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2021-22 | |||||
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2019-20 | |||||
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2016-17 | |||||
2015-16 | |||||
2014-15 | |||||
2013-14 |
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2012-13 |
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2011-12 |