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The School of the Environment wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season. We're looking forward to an exciting 2025! 🎄 Please note: The University of Toronto is closed from December 24, 2024 - January 3, 2025.

The application deadline for the Master of Environment & Sustainability Fall 2025 intake is fast approaching. The deadline to apply is January 6, 2025! 🎓 The MES is an intensive, 12-month research-stream program that responds to the growing need of society to understand and develop solutions to the environmental and human well-being challenges facing us in the 21st century. 🎓 Upon graduation, MES graduates will have acquired a transdisciplinary perspective on environmental issues, learned to use methodologies and tools relevant to environmental protection and sustainability solutions, and will be well prepared for a variety of careers in the private and public sectors, or for further studies at the doctoral level. Find out more: buff.ly/3Xv9O84 Application Instructions: buff.ly/3MO0pn5

The application deadline for the Master of Environment & Sustainability Fall 2025 intake is fast approaching. The deadline to apply is January 6, 2025! 🎓 The MES is an intensive, 12-month research-stream program that responds to the growing need of society to understand and develop solutions to the environmental and human well-being challenges facing us in the 21st century. 🎓 Upon graduation, MES graduates will have acquired a transdisciplinary perspective on environmental issues, learned to use methodologies and tools relevant to environmental protection and sustainability solutions, and will be well prepared for a variety of careers in the private and public sectors, or for further studies at the doctoral level. Find out more: buff.ly/3Xv9O84 Application Instructions: buff.ly/3MO0pn5

Toronto Climate Summer School: Call for Student and Faculty Participation The Toronto Climate Observatory invites faculty and undergraduate students across departments and units to apply for the 2025 Toronto Climate Summer School (TCSS), an intensive, place-based course (ENV465Y1). buff.ly/4eMjWQs ✔️ The TCSS is a six-week full credit undergraduate course offered at the the School of the Environment, University of Toronto. ✔️ We developed this course to fulfill a timely and unmet need for intensive pedagogy that foregrounds interdisciplinarity, applied impact, and climate justice. ✔️ Students will focus on climate and environmental change in Toronto and the surrounding area, learn through interdisciplinary methods, and undertake research projects related to climate and environmental change in the Greater Toronto Area. For more details, visit the Toronto Climate Observatory’s website at buff.ly/48HdlnX

Calling all undergraduate students. Help us chart our future by taking our survey and/or signing up for an interview about the School of the Environment! We are hoping to make the student experience the best that it can be. We would be very grateful for your help in shaping the future of the program. The survey link has been sent to you by email – check your email and complete the survey as soon as you can.

Confronting the Climate Crisis, a new course launching in January 2025, aims to give undergraduate students a clear-eyed understanding of the seriousness and urgency of the climate crisis and the tools to deal with that understanding, psychologically, politically, and sociologically. Professor Steve Easterbrook, director of the School of the Environment, developed the course in response to an initiative at the University of Barcelona to create a mandatory course on the climate crisis. “Increasingly, our students are demanding that Universities respond to declarations of a climate emergency (e.g. by the Federal Government and the City of Toronto) by re-thinking how our programs are preparing them with the resilience and skills needed in a world that will be radically re-shaped by climate change in the coming decades,” said Easterbrook. Read more: buff.ly/4eVWBMk This course is open to all undergraduate students and a few spaces are still available. buff.ly/4ikLpvF

Sustainable Fashion Series Part 1: Clothing Swap and DIY Tote Bag Workshop December 4 | 4 - 6 pm | ES1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue The School of the Environment and the Environmental Students' Union (ENSU) invite you to attend Part 1 of our Sustainable Fashion Series. At the Clothing Swap and DIY Tote Bag Workshop attendees are invited to decorate their own tote bag and bring their clothes to swap with other attendees at the event. Please note that materials for the DIY Tote Bag Workshop will be provided to all attendees. Supplies are limited and will be distributed on a first come first served basis. Attendees interested in participating in the clothing swap are encouraged to drop off their clothes at the School of the Environment's administrative offices at ES1016V (33 Willcocks Street) on Friday, November 29th from 11:00 am - 3:00 pm. Attendees can also bring their clothes to swap the day of the event. Please limit number of drop-off items to 10 per person. Please note: All items must be in decent condition and washed. No stains, holes, etc. buff.ly/40Rz9we

Are you an undergraduate student still deciding on what courses to take next semester? We have a variety of courses to choose from. The following courses are still open for enrollment:  ENV323H1S Ontario Environmental Policy buff.ly/4eLzzaU ENV337H1S Human Interactions with the Environment buff.ly/3OgMOp1 ENV362H1S Energy and Environment: Transitions in History buff.ly/3OfQZS0 ENV441H1S Human Health Impacts of Natural System Alteration buff.ly/48ZQbKx ENV452H1S Environmental Science Seminar (note: restricted to Year 3-4 students in the Environmental Science major) buff.ly/3ALaNJZ ENV462H1S Energy and Environment: Economics, Politics, and Sustainability buff.ly/48V6sAx

Critical food systems pedagogy, polycrisis, and the reactionary moment with Michael Classens November 26 | 12:30 - 2 pm | Forestry Boardroom, Earth Sciences Centre 33 Willcocks Street, Suite 1016 (main floor), Toronto, ON M5S 3E8 This talk reflects on how critical food systems pedagogy might be strengthened by more explicitly engaging with the global polycrisis and challenging hierarchies of power that antagonize the pursuit of transformative education practice. Michael Classens will discuss this through a constellation of interconnected pedagogical concepts – praxis; the dialectic between formal and nonformal learning, and, socio-ecological transformation. He will draw on several examples from his recent teaching and research activities to illustrate how he attempts to co-contribute to a critical food systems pedagogy equipped to respond to the many challenges of the contemporary moment. buff.ly/3ZdvNT8

Professor Tanhum Yoreh published "Convergence and divergence of rhetoric and frames in faith-based and secular environmentalism". This study is a step towards understanding the language and values that make environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and religious (faith-based) environmental NGOs (RENGOs) unique, and the potential to bring these parallel movements together. buff.ly/3O6qr5M

Professor Ranaivo A. Rasolofoson published "Fishery access benefits early childhood development through fish consumption and fishing income pathways". The paper examines the effects of fish consumption and fishing income pathways on child gross motor, personal-social, and communication development within fishing communities around Lake Victoria, Kenya. Highlights 🐟 Fishery access benefits early childhood development through fishing income and fish consumption pathways. 🐟 Fish species shape the benefits of fish consumption. 🐟 Fishing income benefits early childhood development through its effect on child growth. buff.ly/4fy4wjC

We're hiring! The School of the Environment and the Centre for Caribbean Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time tenure stream position in the area of Environment and Climate in Caribbean Studies. This will be a joint appointment between the School of the Environment (51%) and the Centre for Caribbean Studies (49%). The appointment will be at the rank of Associate Professor or Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2025. The successful candidate will be named the New College Professor in Caribbean Studies for a three-year term, which is renewable following a favourable review. buff.ly/3YUCDfZ