{"id":1358,"date":"2010-02-08T14:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/?p=1358"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:00:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:00:16","slug":"developing-a-resilient-low-carbon-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/2010\/02\/developing-a-resilient-low-carbon-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing a resilient low-carbon society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s fascinating seminar, happening later this week:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Full Seminar details and location map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.environment.utoronto.ca\/SeminarSeries\/EnvironmentHealthSeminarSeries\/Resilience%20in%20the%20Face%20of%20Climate%20Change%20and%20Peak%20Oil%20Community-Building%20Responses%20for%20an%20Equitable%20Transition%20to%20a%20Low-Carbon%20Society.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Peak Oil: Community-Building Responses<br \/>\nfor an Equitable Transition to a Low-Carbon Society<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blake Poland,\u00a0Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UofT<\/p>\n<p>THUR FEBRUARY\u00a011, 4:10 p.m,\u00a0Room 108, Health Sciences Building,\u00a0155 College St., at McCaul St, University of Toronto<\/p>\n<p>The world, and North America in particular, is entering a period of unprecedented change. There is\u00a0mounting evidence of the potential for (and pressure for action to avoid) catastrophic runaway climate change,\u00a0unprecedented species extinctions and environmental degradation, the persistence (if not growth) of alarming inequities\u00a0in health, and accelerated resource depletion. By many estimates we currently possess most of the technological know-how\u00a0to solve the world\u2019s fiscal, economic, environmental, social justice and climatological crises. In other words, the problem\u00a0is not technical but social. Consensus is emerging that building resilience at 3 nested levels (psychological\/ personal, community,\u00a0systems level) is or must be at the centre of convergent social justice and environmental social change movements. Resilience\u00a0is widely understood to refer to the ability of communities, persons, or systems to withstand shocks or stress without collapse,\u00a0and perhaps the ability to accept and embrace (as opposed to resist) change. We are an interdisciplinary team principally from\u00a0Canada and Brazil and we are working on the development of an arts-enabled transformative learning curriculum on the transition\u00a0to a low-carbon society for application in educational and community settings, that draws on paradigms and sources of knowledge\u00a0from the Global South and the Global North. We will describe work in progress.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"More info on Blake's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blakepoland.ca\/BlakePoland\/About_Me.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Poland<\/a> is an Associate Professor in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto,\u00a0Co-Director of the Environmental Health Justice in the City Research Interest Group (Centre for Urban Health Initiatives),\u00a0and co-principal investigator in the CUHI-funded Building Community Resilience pilot project. His work draws on complexity\u00a0science, critical social theory, arts-enabled approaches, environmental justice, community development, and health promotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s fascinating seminar, happening later this week: Resilience in the Face of Climate Change and Peak Oil: Community-Building Responses for an Equitable Transition to a Low-Carbon Society Blake Poland,\u00a0Associate Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, UofT THUR FEBRUARY\u00a011, 4:10 p.m,\u00a0Room 108, Health Sciences Building,\u00a0155 College St., at McCaul St, University of Toronto The world, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1358"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1358\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.easterbrook.ca\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}