Seminar Series

Using the example of solar-driven carbon dioxide capture and conversion, this talk will explore this problem, and discuss novel, community-led implementation strategies for new technology deployment.

1. Assessing the Impacts of Organic Farming Practices on Farm Economics and Climate Resilience in British Columbia

2. The City’s Symphony: Linking Nature’s Fading Notes, Rising Urban Noise, and Connection to Nature

This talk explores how militarization, as a form of coercive power, contributes to global carbon emissions. Drawing on collaborative research, it examines the short- and long-term impacts of militarization on national emissions, its influence on the carbon intensity of economic growth, and its role in enabling Global North nations to outsource pollution to the Global South. The talk also highlights findings that show how even modest cuts to U.S. military spending could significantly reduce fossil fuel use by the Department of Defense.

Exploring aqua nullius—the systemic exclusion of Indigenous water rights and science—this talk examines how it functions as a critical tool of colonisation, how it impacts Indigenous women’s water rights, and how, through this focus, it aims to reassert the possibilities for reforming settler-state legal and governance systems to ensure Indigenous women’s sovereignty, water rights, and obligations.

Exploring how climate change impacts the lending capacity of microfinance institutions (MFIs) to smallholder farmers (SHFs), this talk will analyze global trends in physical climate risk—particularly tropical storms and floods—and their effects on 4,500 MFIs under various climate scenarios.