Earth Day: An Excerpt from “Understanding Climate Change”
To celebrate Earth Day, we’re sharing an excerpt from
June 17, 2021
To celebrate Earth Day, we’re sharing an excerpt from
June 17, 2021
For Global Recycling Day, we share an excerpt from David Miller’s book, Solved: How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis, and look at San Francisco’s efforts to have net-zero emissions by 2050.
March 18, 2021
Climate change was once understood as solely an environmental issue. Now a growing class of activists claim climate change to be a gender, equity, labour, Indigenous rights, faith, and health issue. Jen Iris Allan, author of The New Climate Activism explores these issues in more detail.
February 10, 2021
We’re highlighting a few of the newest texts available for courses in Introduction to Political Science and Canadian Politics, as well as mentioning a few forthcoming titles that are dropping later this spring.
January 21, 2021
Today, the University Press Week blog tour highlights active voices within the community and who better to Raise UP than Rae André, climate change educator and bestselling author.
November 13, 2020
Mireille F. Ghoussoub holds a PhD in materials chemistry from the University of Toronto and is the co-author of The Story of CO2. In this post, Mireille highlights why the need for honest and effective science communication has never been greater in the fight against climate change.
November 12, 2020
Local artist and photographer Robert Burley tells us more about Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park, and explains why this fortuitous urban miracle offers a hopeful narrative about how nature can flourish in a modern-day city.
November 10, 2020
Geoffrey A. Ozin and Mireille F. Ghoussoub discuss their new book and explain why we should be considering CO2 as a resource in the fight against catastrophic climate change.
October 22, 2020
Douglas Macdonald examines what impact the Thorne speech might have on Canada’s climate and energy policies going forward.
October 15, 2020
In the final post of her blog series, Rae André outlines a climate change manifesto for university education that can equip students with the best possible knowledge for tackling climate change.
September 22, 2020