|
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
| 
Want to volunteer? Update your profile (link at the bottom of this email) and check the Volunteers list.
View the 2013-14 brochure of Student Opportunities!
|
|
YORK EVENTS
|
March 14, 2014
March 18, 2014
|
|
Graduating Students?
|
Do you want to continue to be kept informed about sustainability news and events at IRIS and York after you graduate?
Please update your email address below, by selecting Update Profile/ Email Address, and you'll continue to receive the IRIS Newsletter!
|
|
|
TODAY: Explore health research, 2-4pm |
| |
Healthy Individuals, Healthy Communities & Global Health
 This event will highlight research of five York scholars: Joe Baker, Dawn Bazely, Tamara Daly and Guy Bernard Prouix. Presenters will deliver mini-research presentations followed by a Q and A session from the audience and a reception.
Date: March 7, 2014
Time: 2-4pm
Location: Lobby, Life Sciences Building
More details
|
University Affairs Discusses Switching Disciplines Mid-Career as an Academic
|
|
Dawn Bazely: From biology to sustainability
 Last month University Affairs published "Meet 5 academics who have switched disciplines mid-career". This article featured IRIS Director and York biology professor, Dawn Bazely, where she discussed her learning curve as she switched disciplines by joining IRIS. Sustainability exposed Dawn to social sciences and ethics, and she continues to learn how scientists can enhance their credibility situating their knowledge in broader landscape.
|
2014 Campus Sustainability Survey Coming Soon
|
|
"Are you an active bystander? Building a safer community, together"
 The annual campus sustainability survey put together by IRIS and the University administration will soon be released to York's community. This year's topic focuses on the experiences of being an active bystander at York University, as well as views about campus safety. This information will inform the university about future safety initiatives, particularly about current knowledge and concerns, feelings about intervening, and feelings abut the general community. The survey is anonymous and open to students, staff and Faculty of York University. After you have completed the survey, you will have the option to be entered into a draw for a prize and/or receive future communications about IRIS or campus sustainability.
Look out for an IRIS survey table in the coming weeks!
|
MAR.14: 2014 Schulich Net Impact Conference
|
|
 Join us for this year's Schulich Net Impact Conference. Leaders from major organizations, including Unilever, Hudson's Bay, Interface, Ernst & Young, RBC, TD, Tim Hortons, and Oxford Properties have joned the event and will share industry trends, opportunities, and best practices in sustainability. The opening
keynote speaker, Richard St. John has a "Top 20 Most Viewed" TED talk,
and will be presenting on "The 8 traits successful people have in common".
The full day conference will conclude with a networking wine and cheese.
Location: Schulich School of Business
More details
|
|
MAR.10: The Ghosts in the Water: Collective Rights, Law and the Environment
|
|
IRIS Speaker Series and MES/JD Joint Program Seminars
 This session will be an informal lunch with Jeffrey Hewitt, Osgoode Visiting McMurty Fellow, counsel to the Rama First Nation, followed by a talk (as part of the International Environmental Law class). Jeffrey's research focuses on the connection between Indigenous law and art forms, in particular story-telling and the possible applications to modern day innovation and problem-solving.
Date: March 10, 2014
Time: 2:30-3:30
Location: 2003 Osgoode Hall
|
|
MAR.21: Aboriginal Power: Changing the Landscape of Energy & Sustainability Coast-to-Coast Across Canada |
|
IRIS, COERB and SSB present
 Chris Henderson is the preeminent advisor to First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities across Canada in the development of clean energy generating projects meeting Aboriginal rights, and inclusive of indigenous economic benefits and equity participation. Chris will be presenting his book, Aboriginal Power, followed by an interactive session that covers issues such as community engagement, partnership negotiations and terms, climate change and more.
Date: March 21, 2014
Time: 10-11:30am
Location: Room N109, Schulich School of Business
|
|
MAR.21:Book Launch - Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region
|
|
 Join editors Anders Sandberg, Colins Coates, Stephan Bocking, and Ken Cruikshank, as they launch their new book, "Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region". This book invites readers to look for nature in the built environment, and the built environment in the natural world. Contributers guide readers through different regions in the region, from downtown Toronto to the Oak Ridges Morraine, from the Leslie Spit to Niagara Falls, from the sacred Indigenous mounds of High Park to the queer groves of David L. Bedford Park, from the engineering achievments of R.C. Harris to the imagined landscapes of Lawren Harris.
Date: March 21, 2014
Location: 366 Bay St.
|
MAR.25: Inaugural James Love Lecture on Avian Conservation
|
|
Tropical Forests & the Migration of Song Birds
 Dr. Bridget Stutchbury is a distinguished research professor, and former Canada Research Chair in Ecology and Conservation Biology, as well as an IRIS Senior Fellow, at York University. In this lecture, Bridget will reveal her surprising migration tracking results for Purple Martins, Red-eyed Vireos and Wood Thrushes and discuss how this research can help us save songbirds. Date: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Registration & Refreshments: 6:15pm
Lecture: 7:00pm
Location: Schulich Executive Learning Centre, Private Dining Room, York University More Details
|
|
More About IRIS and this Newsletter
The Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability is a university-wide research centre that pursues an interdisciplinary approach to the challenges of sustainability. Through our collaborations on sustainability related research projects and innovative initiatives, we hope to generate awareness amongst the York University community of our social, natural and economic spheres, while engaging students, staff and faculty in action that creates change on campus and beyond.
The IRIS Newsletter is a way to keep you informed about what we are up to so that you can drop by an event, get involved, or just learn about what research projects we are currently undertaking. The Newsletter is sent out once or twice per month, highlighting the IRIS, York University, and broader community's sustainability news and events!
|
|
|
|
|
