The Green Energy Transition Has an Extractivism Problem
The supply of critical minerals required for renewable energy infrastructure is both the answer for a sustainable transition, but also a major problem
How Can We Confront the Environmental Challenges Associated with Canadian Mining?
an Ecopolitics podcast with special guest Teresa Kramarz.
Last week, a high-level task force at the Council on Foreign Relations released its final report, Improving Pandemic Preparedness: Lessons from COVID-19. The key takeaway? Pandemics are expensive and inevitable. It is essential, the report argues, to prepare for the next pandemic even as we’re grappling with the effects of COVID-19.
All too often, it's headline-grabbing events such as floods or the pandemic that gathers public attention—not the underlying conditions of inequality that compromise the capacity of communities like these to withstand such shocks.
How Does the World Bank Fit Into the Climate Conversation?
The World Bank has preached a commitment to climate change and sustainable development. Do their actions back up their words?
A Sweaty Penguin Podcast with special guest Teresa Kramarz
“This is all wrong, I shouldn’t be up here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean.”
U of T's Munk One program teaches students how to tackle global issues
The smallest of U of T’s first-year foundation programs, Munk One is a gives first-year students the chance to brainstorm real solutions to global problems in a hands-on, interactive way.
Un documental sobre una tribu colombiana muestra las dinámicas de la extracción de marihuana y sus riesgos, desde el punto de vista de los aborígenes.
Acting on climate while states fail to act
The reality today is that the idea of the state as the most important member of the international system appears more than ever an anachronism.
From pandemics to floods: Inequality as a comorbidity
As it turns out, the slogan ‘we are all in this together,’ has not quite measured up to the widely different experiences that communities have during this pandemic.
Los estados están fallando en proteger los bienes públicos globales como la naturaleza, sostiene la autora de esta nota. La sociedad civil es quien se preocupa por el cambio climático.
This International Women’s Day, we asked 10 Canadian or Canada-based women working on international issues to reflect on those who inspire them.
There is a common thread across the experiences of indigenous people in Latin America with extractive industries, which this movie explores through a Wayuu family that sees its fortunes rise and fall when they start doing business with alijunas (foreigners).
La Casa Blanca anunció la salida del Acuerdo de París y provocó un crujido en el mapa ecológico.
The Trump administration’s decision to abandon the Paris Agreement was no surprise. The world, U.S. cities, and U.S. businesses are already moving on, with or without DC’s leadership.
University of Toronto Teaching Fellow, 2016-2017, Teresa Kramarz
An interview explaining the general contours of the "Global Classrooms" project.
See One, Do One, Teach One: Munk School Competition an Opportunity for Mentorship
If you were given just 24 hours to come up with a proposed solution to sex trafficking in Toronto, would you be up to the task? Students in the Munk One program at the Munk School of Global Affairs were challenged to do just that at the program’s annual Case Competition earlier this month.
When Courts go Green
For the International Criminal Court a crime against the environment is now a crime against humanity. Are judges our best hope to halt environmental destruction?'
“My project focuses on globally networked learning environments, and it will provide an opportunity for students to understand the realities of the contexts they’re studying by making connections beyond the classroom.”
Munk One Students Bring Their Big Ideas to the Dragons’ Den
On CBC’s reality TV show Dragon’s Den, entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas on national television, vying for financial investment from a panel of venture capitalists.
A first year course at the Munk School of Global Affairs is putting a more altruistic spin on the concept, challenging first year students to come up with ambitious ideas for solving global problems.
Those who already live with the effects of climate change, and need accountability most, lack the power to influence accountability mechanisms. Teresa Kramarz on why that’s a big problem.
This month, I am teaching a University of Toronto course in Argentina that I have been organizing for the past year. The course is called “Localizing Global Governance”. Follow our trip log here: HTTP://UOFT-ARGENTINA.BLOGSPOT.CA
The following examples represent some of the ways in which I engaged first-year students in applying multiple disciplinary perspectives, and research methods to investigate problems of social order through a hands-on approach to learning in my classes.
Program coordinator writes about the exciting program prepared for students this year.
The good, the bad and the money: What more P3s could mean for Alberta
"At the end of day, the decision needs to fit the needs of the people".
El asesinato de 14 alumnas en 1989 en Montreal se resignifica el 10 de diciembre, día de los DD.HH.
Global Classrooms Interview
“We see an opportunity to breathe new life and richer content into the growing number of incubators across campuses.”
Violence against women is a pervasive reality in the Americas. While the state has a primary responsibility in providing protection to women, what role do regular citizens play in the normalization of gender violence?
La Corte Penal Internacional dictaminó que los ataques al medio ambiente se consideran contra la humanidad. Uno de los casos analizados es el Riachuelo.
“In the global classroom, two or more instructors will use technology platforms to deliver lectures for the students in both locations. And the students will work together as international teams to complete project work, jointly conduct research, or develop case studies informed by their unique experiences and perspectives.”
Through a new Teaching & Learning Community of Practice (CoP), Arts & Science faculty are coming together to share the best of their teaching techniques and practices.
Channeling Hobbes in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Models for teaching global citizenship often limit themselves to conceptual analysis and passive methods for global knowledge acquisition. The Munk One Program I direct inverts these by deploying labs as experiential platforms... At the undergraduate level, we embed first year university students in policy research labs actively seeking new approaches in addressing wicked global problems.
Groups of students huddled over game board grids that were covered by what might have been a random assortment of nickels and pennies... The coins represented two ethnic groups and students were examining how segregation could develop and how conflict potentially emerge, in what could be any number of cities across Canada or around the world...