Sustainable Future / en Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Equitable Communities Ep. 5 /news/sustainable-future-challenge-accepted-equitable-communities-ep-5 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Equitable Communities Ep. 5</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-06-12T15:42:08-04:00" title="Monday, June 12, 2023 - 15:42" class="datetime">Mon, 06/12/2023 - 15:42</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SNdAmRpI87g?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Equitable Communities Ep. 5" aria-label="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Equitable Communities Ep. 5: https://www.youtube.com/embed/SNdAmRpI87g?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/institutional-strategic-initiatives" hreflang="en">Institutional Strategic Initiatives</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/school-cities" hreflang="en">School of Cities</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/dalla-lana-school-public-health" hreflang="en">Dalla Lana School of Public Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainability" hreflang="en">Sustainability</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">How can addressing climate change help us build a more equitable world?</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The final instalment of the 91Թ’s five-part series, Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted!, explores the intersection between equity, the environment and the economy.</p> <p><strong>Imara Rolston</strong>, assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and founder and director of the <a href="https://www.communityclimateresiliencelab.org/">Community Climate Resilience Lab</a>, talks about the importance of listening to leaders in the Black, racialized and marginalized communities most impacted by the effect of climate change.</p> <p>“One of the ways to sort of stabilize a city, and I think that’s what a lot of folks don’t recognize, is to advance racial equity and racial justice,” he says. “When you advance that through policy, through sustained investment, through evidence and research and academia, then you can get ahead of what’s going to happen, and you can actually stabilize the whole city in ways it wouldn’t be if racial equity wasn’t centred.”</p> <p><strong>Karen Chapple</strong>, director of <a href="https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/">91Թ’s School of Cities</a>, an <a href="https://isi.utoronto.ca/">institutional strategic initiative</a>, and professor in the department of geography and urban planning in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science, says students and researchers are coming up with new ways to address the challenges of affordable housing and energy efficiency – and the next step is to put those ideas into practice.</p> <p><strong>Ron Saporta</strong> – 91Թ’s acting vice-president, operations and the co-chair of the <a href="https://sustainability.utoronto.ca/ceccs-home/">President’s Advisory Committee on the Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability</a> – adds that 91Թ is leading by example through initiatives across the university’s three campuses, including the installation of Canada’s largest urban geoexchange field.</p> <h3><a href="https://youtu.be/SNdAmRpI87g">&nbsp;Watch Episode 5 of the Sustainable Future series</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-add-new-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Add new story tags</div> <div class="field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainable-future-0" hreflang="en">Sustainable Future </a></div> </div> </div> Mon, 12 Jun 2023 19:42:08 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 301955 at Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Justice Ep. 4 /news/sustainable-future-challenge-accepted-climate-justice-ep-4 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Justice Ep. 4</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>siddiq22</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-06-01T13:35:35-04:00" title="Thursday, June 1, 2023 - 13:35" class="datetime">Thu, 06/01/2023 - 13:35</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XGOI8PEfwR8?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player--2" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Justice Ep. 4" aria-label="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Justice Ep. 4: https://www.youtube.com/embed/XGOI8PEfwR8?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainable-future-0" hreflang="en">Sustainable Future </a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/waakebiness-bryce-institute-indigenous-health" hreflang="en">Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/dalla-lana-school-public-health" hreflang="en">Dalla Lana School of Public Health</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/environment" hreflang="en">Environment</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/indigenous" hreflang="en">Indigenous</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/john-h-daniels-faculty-architecture" hreflang="en">John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainability" hreflang="en">Sustainability</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/truth-and-reconciliation" hreflang="en">Truth and Reconciliation</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>How is Indigenous sovereignty and justice fundamental to climate change policy and action?</p> <p>The fourth episode of the 91Թ’s five-part video series, <em>Sustainable Future - Challenge Accepted!</em>, explores the climate justice work of Indigenous researchers at the university, the challenges they face and how they are leading change.</p> <p>One way Indigenous communities learn about law is through the land, says <a href="https://www.law.utoronto.ca/faculty-staff/full-time-faculty/john-borrows"><strong>John Borrows</strong></a>, professor in the Faculty of Law and inaugural <a href="/news/acclaimed-scholar-john-borrows-named-loveland-chair-indigenous-law-u-t-s-faculty-law">Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law</a> at 91Թ.</p> <p>“When I take my students out in the land, they get an opportunity to experience the land directly and hear about the stories, the garments, the water, the birds and the insects,” he says. &nbsp;</p> <p>To enrich land-based learning, <strong>Liat Margolis</strong>, associate professor in the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, and <a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/news/wed-feb-17-2021-12am/daniels-faculty-appoints-its-inaugural-first-peoples-leadership-advisor"><strong>Elder Whabagoon</strong></a>, an Ojibway Elder who is&nbsp;the First Peoples Leadership Advisor to the General Manager of Transportation Services for the City of Toronto and the Daniels Faculty’s former First Peoples Leadership Advisor to the Dean, co-founded the <a href="https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/news/mon-sep-20-2021-12am/inside-nikibii-dawadinna-giigwag-program-connects-indigenous-youth">Nikibii Dawadinna Giigwag Youth Program</a> at 91Թ.</p> <p>The program provides Indigenous youth with employment, mentorship and pathways to post-secondary education in fields related to design and the environment.</p> <p><strong><a href="https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/mashford-pringle-angela/">Angela Mashford-Pringle</a></strong>, assistant professor with the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and associate director of the <a href="https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/institutes/wiih/">Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health</a>, says when she teaches her students about land-based learning, she’s telling them about the beliefs of Indigenous health policy as well.</p> <p>“[It’s] the balance between the spiritual, the emotional, the physical and the mental,” she says.</p> <p>“That helps students to connect not only to the work, but then they can see how it connects to the world.”</p> <h3><a href="https://youtu.be/zJ04DLroPKs">Watch Episode 4 of the Sustainable Future series</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 01 Jun 2023 17:35:35 +0000 siddiq22 301849 at Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Green Tech & AI Ep. 3 /news/sustainable-future-challenge-accepted-green-tech-ai-ep-3 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Green Tech &amp; AI Ep. 3</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>siddiq22</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-05-18T12:23:30-04:00" title="Thursday, May 18, 2023 - 12:23" class="datetime">Thu, 05/18/2023 - 12:23</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JAiPqPBw8Vk?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player--3" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Green Tech &amp; AI Ep. 3" aria-label="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Green Tech &amp;amp; AI Ep. 3: https://www.youtube.com/embed/JAiPqPBw8Vk?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/our-community" hreflang="en">Our Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainable-future-0" hreflang="en">Sustainable Future </a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/artificial-intelligence" hreflang="en">Artificial Intelligence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/climate" hreflang="en">Climate</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/climate-change" hreflang="en">Climate Change</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/computer-science" hreflang="en">Computer Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/research-innovation" hreflang="en">Research &amp; Innovation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainability" hreflang="en">Sustainability</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>How can technology be used to examine the impacts of climate change, accelerate sustainable innovation and empower communities to advance environmental justice?</p> <p>In the third episode of the 91Թ’s five-part video series –&nbsp;<i>Sustainable Future - Challenge Accepted!</i>&nbsp;– researchers share how they are using artificial intelligence, machine learning, climate informatics and data crowdsourcing to help inform an equity-based response to the climate crisis.</p> <p>“We’re really trying to think about a human-centred, local, place-based approach to climate informatics that centres questions about equity and justice,” says&nbsp;<a href="https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/people/directories/all-faculty/robert-soden"><b>Robert Soden</b></a>, assistant professor in the department of computer science and School of the Environment in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science.</p> <p><a href="https://harthouse.ca/profile/vanessa-gray"><b>Vanessa Gray</b></a>, a researcher in 91Թ’s&nbsp;<a href="https://technoscienceunit.org/about/">Technoscience Research Unit</a>&nbsp;and co-lead of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.landandrefinery.org/pollutionreporter">Pollution Reporter App</a>, reflects on how Indigenous data sovereignty is equipping communities with information and tools to protect themselves and hold polluters accountable.</p> <p>Meanwhile,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.dlsph.utoronto.ca/faculty-profile/rosella-laura-c/"><b>Laura Rosella</b></a>, epidemiologist and associate professor at 91Թ’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, explains how AI-powered data analysis can help illuminate the complex links between climate change and the health and well-being of populations.</p> <h3><a href="https://youtu.be/JAiPqPBw8Vk">Watch Episode 3 of the Sustainable Future series</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 18 May 2023 16:23:30 +0000 siddiq22 301640 at Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Resilience Ep. 2 /news/sustainable-future-challenge-accepted-climate-resilience-ep-2 <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Resilience Ep. 2</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Christopher.Sorensen</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-05-04T09:27:53-04:00" title="Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 09:27" class="datetime">Thu, 05/04/2023 - 09:27</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Uw2HOXUxW0?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player--4" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Resilience Ep. 2" aria-label="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Climate Resilience Ep. 2: https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Uw2HOXUxW0?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainable-future-0" hreflang="en">Sustainable Future </a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/climate" hreflang="en">Climate</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/climate-change" hreflang="en">Climate Change</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainability" hreflang="en">Sustainability</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/u-t-scarborough" hreflang="en">91Թ Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>How does climate anxiety affect students and how do they feel about the future of a warming planet?</p> <p>In the second episode of 91Թ’s five-part video series – <i>Sustainable Future - Challenge Accepted! – </i>students from the 91Թ Scarborough share their thoughts on eco-anxiety, the global impact of climate change and a path forward to sustainability.</p> <p>“To reduce climate anxiety is really to take action… and as students we have the power to do that as well,” says <b>Yao Yang Huang</b>, a fourth-year&nbsp;student studying environmental chemistry at 91Թ Scarborough.</p> <p>A student-led effort, the video was directed and filmed by <strong>Charlotte Wargniez</strong>, who studies environmental geoscience at 91Թ Scarborough, with additional camera work by Huang and editor <strong>Joel Famadico Jr</strong>.</p> <h3><a href="https://youtu.be/3Uw2HOXUxW0">Watch Episode 2 of the Sustainable Future series</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 04 May 2023 13:27:53 +0000 Christopher.Sorensen 301486 at Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Changemakers Ep. 1 /news/sustainable-future-challenge-accepted-episode-1-changemakers <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Changemakers Ep. 1</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>siddiq22</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2023-04-20T14:08:02-04:00" title="Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 14:08" class="datetime">Thu, 04/20/2023 - 14:08</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-youtube field--type-youtube field--label-hidden field__item"><figure class="youtube-container"> <iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2bwRLt6-Fso?wmode=opaque" width="450" height="315" id="youtube-field-player--5" class="youtube-field-player" title="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Changemakers Ep. 1" aria-label="Embedded video for Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted! Changemakers Ep. 1: https://www.youtube.com/embed/2bwRLt6-Fso?wmode=opaque" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> </figure> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainable-development-goals" hreflang="en">Sustainable Development Goals</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainable-future-0" hreflang="en">Sustainable Future </a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/alumni" hreflang="en">Alumni</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/climate-change" hreflang="en">Climate Change</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/environment" hreflang="en">Environment</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-applied-science-engineering" hreflang="en">Faculty of Applied Science &amp; Engineering</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/startups" hreflang="en">Startups</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sustainability" hreflang="en">Sustainability</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/u-t-mississauga" hreflang="en">91Թ Mississauga</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Sustainability is at the heart of the 91Թ’s mission – from academic programming to research, innovation,&nbsp;partnerships and operations.</p> <p>The 91Թ community members who are leading this change are featured in a new five-part video series:&nbsp;<em>Sustainable Future – Challenge Accepted!&nbsp;</em>The first episode in the series&nbsp;–&nbsp;<em>Changemakers&nbsp;–</em>focuses on alumni who are&nbsp;championing new discoveries and initiatives in climate innovation, social&nbsp;justice, green tech and more.</p> <p>“Even if sometimes the situation does look bleak, there is always hope to bring about change and to take action,” says 91Թ alumna&nbsp;<b>Kehkashan Basu</b>, who co-founded Green Hope Foundation when she was only 12 years old.&nbsp;</p> <p>From centering the needs of youth impacted by the climate crisis&nbsp;to developing grid-free electricity for communities in Africa via a portable solar-powered battery and taking on the fashion industry by developing sustainable textiles, 91Թ community members are leading the way toward&nbsp;a more&nbsp;sustainable future.</p> <p>The&nbsp;<i>Changemakers</i>&nbsp;episode features:</p> <ul> <li><a href="/news/always-dare-dream-says-kehkashan-basu-u-t-grad-who-started-environmental-non-profit-age-12"><b>Kehkashan Basu</b></a>, president and co-founder of the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.greenhopefoundation.com/">Green Hope Foundation</a>, a youth-led not-for-profit with operations in 25 countries</li> <li><a href="/news/u-t-alumnus-olugbenga-olubanjo-one-15-finalists-17-million-earthshot-prize"><b>Olugbenga Olubanjo</b></a>, founder of green-tech startup&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reeddi.com/">Reeddi</a></li> <li><a href="https://alumni.utoronto.ca/news-and-stories/news-and-articles/earth-friendly-fashion-u-t-alumna-avneet-ghotras-startup-turns"><b>Avneet Ghotra</b></a>, co-founder and chief technology officer of biomaterials startup&nbsp;<a href="https://thealttex.com/">ALT TEX</a></li> </ul> <h3><a href="https://youtu.be/2bwRLt6-Fso">Watch Episode 1 of the Sustainable Future series</a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Thu, 20 Apr 2023 18:08:02 +0000 siddiq22 301234 at