Join the Office of Sustainability at MacEwan University for the Sustainability 201 Speaker Series featuring Geoff Dembicki. As wildfires rage across the west, it’s clear climate change is getting worse. But with B.C. and Alberta ready to kill each other over pipelines, our leaders seem unable to address the crisis with the urgency it requires. […]
Join us for DiHuCon: the Digital Humanities Students’ Association's (DHSA) annual conference! This year's theme is Disruption! and focuses on scholarly activities that unsettle, deconstruct, and reanimate pressing questions around technology. From video games to virtuality, intersectionality to the internet, DiHuCon 2019 will have something for everyone. Register to attend here: https://goo.gl/forms/qOqqCXis01nnMgXK2 Our featured speakers […]
Your condo building can become energy efficient and create its own clean power. Come learn how to do good, feel good, and save money with provincial rebate programs.
The Recycling Council of Alberta is pleased to announce a workshop on Single-Use Items Reduction Strategies that we are delivering in partnership with Waste Free Edmonton. Increasingly, communities, governments of all levels and the public at large are targeting single-use items as a source of concern to environmental impacts such as litter and recycling challenges. […]
Intersections of Gender is one of the first three newly-minted University of Alberta Signature Areas of Research and Teaching. As a Signature Area, we will contribute to making the University of Alberta an internationally recognized leader in intersectional, gender-themed research that advances innovation and collaboration across disciplines, deepens equity and inclusion, and responds to global challenges. […]
Join the Office of Sustainability for a workshop series to aid you in your journey to resilience and well-being in the climate crisis. - February 14: Sharing circle - March 7: Movement: trauma-informed yoga followed by sharing circle - March 28: Panel with resilience advocates This event is offered free of charge, however registration is […]
Join Spruce Permaculture and the Office of Sustainability for a discussion and tour around the MacEwan University aeroponic, hydroponic, and aquaponic food systems. Register by making a pay-what-you-can donation. If you're unable to donate, please reach sustainability@macewan.ca and we will register you for free. In a Northern climate, does it make economic and ecological sense […]
"We're hosting another book club! This time we'll be reading Women Who Dig: Farming, Feminism, and the Fight to Feed the World by Trina Moyles. Trina is a Canadian writer and award-winning freelance journalist with experience covering stories in rural communities in East Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. She has traveled and […]
"Come join us for a night of film as we watch the movie The True Cost which shows the link between consumer pressure for low-cost fashion and the meager existence of the sweatshop workers who produce those goods. This is an evening to explore fast fashion and it's impact on developing countries as well as […]
"We stand in solidarity with people across the world to demand that our elected governments take immediate and effective action to address the Climate Crisis. Come and sound the Climate Crisis Alarm. Bring your drums, bells, whistles, etc and let's make some noise."