Creating solutions for the next 150 years
"Sisler High School student Carl Dizon was surprised to be one of three winners of the International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area’s essay contest."
"Sisler High School student Carl Dizon was surprised to be one of three winners of the International Institute for Sustainable Development Experimental Lakes Area’s essay contest."
“With the provincial ban on the use of coal for space heating in Manitoba, a good number of Manitoba’s Hutterite colonies have recently upgraded or converted their heating systems from aging coal-burning systems to cleaner biomass boiler heating systems,” says Richard Grosshans, bioeconomy lead for International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)’s water program.
"While having this data online is useful, the more important step is for such an initiative to interpret the data and identify and communicate any trends, explains Livia Bizikova, programme director with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, a global organization that developed and runs Peg in partnership with the local non-profit United Way Winnipeg."
"The scientists at the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA) near Kenora, Ont., are practicing a new skill this month: being brief. The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), which operates the ELA, is running a campaign throughout July that will see its scientists answer science-related questions that are posed via Twitter."
"With the media being a crucial factor in telling the climate change story, every endeavour to tell that story as simplified as possible is equally crucial. Over the past weekend, nearly a dozen local journalists got the chance to learn how to do just that."
St Lucia's MBC Television reports from our recent event in St Lucia educating journalists on the impacts of climate change.
"For the month of July, people can tweet at the IISD-ELA Twitter account with any questions they may have for Experimental Lakes Area scientists with the hashtag #ELA140, whether it’s about climate change, different pollutants, invasive species, or what exactly happens at the ELA, a natural laboratory made up of 58 small lakes and their watersheds near Vermilion Bay. The catch, of course, is the researchers have to respond in 140 characters or less."
Natan Obed, an IISD board member, explores the Inuit's response to Canada 150 and looks forward to their role in creating a more inclusive country.
"Lake 227 may be the least well-known and most well-studied lake in the world,” Paterson had told me earlier as we dragged on our heavy rain gear at the lab. More than 200 published papers have used data from Lake 227 over the last five decades.
"Amin Asadollahi, a climate change expert with the International Institute for Sustainable Development, believes the problem with climate change isn’t about human numbers, but about energy consumption."