Summer 2018 Newsletter

Our work with Indigenous communities in Canada continues to evolve with the Kainai First Nation, Piikani First Nation, Fort McKay Metis Community Association, and soon in Fort Chipewyan.

Winter might not be coming! By Andy Dobson, Princeton University

Winter might not be coming! Andy Dobson, EEB, Eno Hall, Princeton University, NJ 0854, USA. Winter might not be coming. Or when it does, it will increasingly be in a much-reduced form: less frost and snow, more grey skies and rain. Unfortunately, as much of the northern world has seen this year in Montreal, Japan, […]

Tipping into the future

A history of tipping points from an ecological perspective and how they inform resilience thinking in global development.

Can the COP cope? – Thoughts on the COP23 Meetings

You may have noticed that the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) 23rd annual Conference of the Parties meeting (referred to as COP 23) concluded in Bonn recently. In the US, the meeting went largely under the radar, displaced by stories on tax legislation and the increasing scrutiny of the sexual misconduct of alpha males within our culture. Everywhere else in the world, the meetings were front page news due the attendance of nearly every major political leader in the world, except of course, from the US.