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Art exhibition protests Canada’s oil industry on campus
December 19, 2025On November 6, the “Banks Off Campus Day of Action” art exhibition was held at the Student Union Building social stage to showcase George Rammell’s art. Rammell is a Gambier Island-based artist whose work focuses on climate activism and collaboration with Indigenous artists. The exhibit centred resistance to new fossil fuel projects in BC, and was organized by SFU350, Change Course, and Simon Fraser Public Interest Group. On Instagram, the organizers wrote that the event comes amid growing enthusiasm for fossil fuel projects in the country, with major Canadian banks having increased their investments in the sector. Additionally, the federal…
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Against climate realism: reclaiming climate futures
June 10, 2025In a recent article for the American think tank Council on Foreign Relations, senior fellow for energy and climate Varun Sivaram proposed a new doctrine for climate policy: climate realism. This seemingly pragmatic approach argues it’s impossible to avert climate…
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The climate’s health is ours
January 15, 2025There it is again, that funny feeling. Climate change is causing catastrophic floods, droughts, wildfires, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, and extreme temperatures around the world. In seemingly unrelated news, the US just reported the country’s first death from H5N1 bird…
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It’s time for SFU to fully divest from fossil fuels
September 11, 2021This summer, unprecedented temperatures captured the world’s attention when domestic and international news outlets warned about record-breaking heat in Lytton, just days before the town was destroyed in a wildfire. As grim as this was, the horror of the situation…
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SFU350 calls on SFU to declare climate emergency
September 7, 2021On August 11, climate action student group, SFU350, released a Climate Emergency Declaration Open Letter urging SFU to take action against the climate crisis on social media. They demand that SFU declare a climate emergency, take a stance against the…
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Professor Mark Jaccard’s lecture on climate emergency emphasizes the importance of sincerity and citizen action
February 24, 2020Mark Jaccard, SFU Distinguished Professor and Director of the School of Resource and Environmental Management, gave a talk about climate action at SFU’s Harbour Centre last week. He is also one of the four SFU experts recently recruited to the…
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Post-secondary students assemble to plan for climate justice
January 28, 2020Post-secondary students from across Metro Vancouver came together on the afternoon of Sunday, January 19 at SFU’s Harbour Centre to start a coalition for climate justice. The first meeting of the Metro Vancouver Post-Secondary Students Coalition for Justice consisted of…
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Unique degree explores environmental controversies
November 17, 2014SFU’s Faculty of Environment (FENV) launched Canada’s first Bachelor’s of Environment program, which aims to create environmental problem-solvers and decision-makers capable of making a contribution to mitigating climate change. A balance of the social sciences and the natural sciences, the…
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Awareness of climate change policy may not matter
November 17, 2014According to a new SFU study, the majority of British Columbians are uninformed about provincial climate policies — and that’s all right. Authored by Jonn Axsen and Mark Jaccard, SFU professors of resource and environmental management, along with PhD candidate…
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