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  • Little Voices from Fukushima, a Film Screening

    When: 17th May 2019 12:30:pm
    Where:
    Friday, May 17 12:30 pm xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees), 1st floor, Liu Institute for Global Issues Address: 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Join us for this film screening and discussion by filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka from Japan on her film, 小さき声のカノン– 選択する人々(“Little Voices from Fukushima”). SPPGA Professor Ramana will...

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    Little Voices from Fukushima, a Film Screening

    When: 17th May 2019 12:30:pm
    Where:

    Friday, May 17 12:30 pm xʷθəθiqətəm (Place of many trees), 1st floor, Liu Institute for Global Issues Address: 6476 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Join us for this film screening and discussion by filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka from Japan on her film, 小さき声のカノン– 選択する人々(“Little Voices from Fukushima”). SPPGA Professor Ramana will...

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COMMENTARY: May 22 is international biodiversity day — and this scientist thinks change is possible: Op-ed by Kai Chan, IRES Faculty Member

Posted on by mina phaisaltantiwongs

The United Nations issued its first comprehensive global scientific report on biodiversity on Monday, May 6, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)   In the jobs-versus-environment debate, neither side is wrong. The problem is the 20th-century economy that forces us to choose. This is a key message of the new UN report I co-authored about nature […]

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