The impact is unlikely to last in a post-pandemic world, but it has demonstrated the impact of policy making and collective actions, said Hannah Teicher, a researcher in residence for the built environment at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions, based at the University of Victoria. “If nothing else, it maybe helps to motivate people to see that we can make a change, and even in a short term, that there’s a real difference,” Teicher said. “I think that the biggest lesson for climate from COVID is just the impact that we can have when communities and governments come together and get behind our common goal, and that we actually really need to do something.”
Trees are the ultimate multi-taskers. On top of all the work they do keeping our planet a lush and liveable place for its many creatures, the benefits of trees transcend our many forests.
An abundance of emerging research actually shows trees experience a second life when their wood is incorporated into our buildings, furniture, and fixtures leading to a slew of surprising mental health benefits for humans
and the planet we call home.
When it comes to advancing the use of wood in green and clean building technology and pushing for nature-based solutions to climate change, Canada is at the forefront after all, our sprawling country accounts for 40% of the world’s certified sustainably managed forests.
Talks and Presentations - 2011 to 2016
List of talks 2011 to 2016
12 December 2016: AGU Fall Meeting
John Cook presented a talk A Brief of History of Consensus (PPT 6.8Mb), outlining the misinformation campaign against consensus, the studies quantifying the level of scientific agreement and how to neutralise misinformation.
28 October 2016: Conference on climate denial
The world s first research conference on climate denial was held at Linköping University, in the city of Norrköping, Sweden. I recorded a video talk for this conference (here are the Powerpoint slides for this talk).
27 June 2016: Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture
At the University of Tasmania, John Cook presented the 2016 Royal Society of Tasmania Winter Series lecture on The psychology of climate science denial , chaired by Her Excellency Kate Warner, Governor of Tasmania.
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Every day, vast amounts of heat generated from industry, data centres and hockey rinks is just wasted.
When the source of waste heat is close enough, it can be tapped and piped into a building or a district energy system.