Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability

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Extreme weather puts pressure on fruit and vegetable costs and supply | CBC

Climate change is causing more heat domes and deep freezes, and as the CBC’s Camille Vernet explains extreme weather affects food prices and supply.

The Growing Movement to Buy Local | CTV News

Canada Food Flows Co-creator, Navin Ramankutty discusses the growing movement to buy local on CTV Morning Live.

John P. Bell Global Indigenous Rights Lecture presents Dr. Dolly Kikon | March 13 5:30pm

The Woman who Became a Deer: Sacrifice and Salvation in the Indigenous World

In this talk, I present the Naga world through stories and focus on the web of connections about sacrifice and salvation. I invite you to meditate on knowledge, culture, and sustainability that are grounded in everyday lives of the Naga world. Far from romanticising Indigenous cultures as timeless, I draw attention to ongoing challenges such as extractive regime, structural violence, and inequality. Drawing from my ongoing engagements on repatriation, reconciliation, and redistribution, I offer some reflections about working together to humanize and care for one another, and dwell on Indigenous values as possible pathways of holding on to hope and healing during uncertain times.

-Dr. Dolly Kikon

Food Systems Sustainability: Understanding the Global Challenge and Taking Local Action | Feb 13 2pm

Short presentations and panel discussion followed by Q&A with Navin Ramankutty (Director, IRES; Professor, IRES and SPPGA), David Speight (UBC Food Services Executive Chef ), and Liska Richer (SEEDS Sustainability Manager).