McGill Podcasts » Environment

In this installation of “The Cutting Edge”, chemistry professor Christopher Barrett describes an emerging new guiding principle for materials development at McGill, based on bio-mimicry and self-assembly as an inspiration and a toolbox.

Dr. Andrew D. Miall (Professor of Geology at the Geology Department, University of Toronto) presents six popular myths that complicate the development of good public policies, though they may make the arguments for protecting our environment stronger. This lecture was recorded as part of the Royal Society of Canada’s “The Cutting Edge” seminar series.

Justin Trudeau, son of former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau, discusses the necessity of individual action and stresses the need for increased environmental awareness within the Canadian government.

What is a perfect storm? To an atmospheric scientist, it is a storm in which several factors come together to make it especially catastrophic. The 1998 Ice Storm was a perfect storm and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was another.

Biocarburants, changement climatique, coût croissant de l’énergie, crise alimentaire mondiale, tels sont les champs d’intérêt du Pr Don Smith, directeur du Département de sciences végétales, dont les équipes de recherche s’attaquent aux problèmes les plus pressant de la planète.

As part of its 10th anniversary celebrations, the McGill School of Environment hosts a debate on whether environmental models have sufficient predictive power to move politicians and the public to act.

Biofuels, climate change, rising energy costs, and the world food crisis – meet Plant Sciences Chair Don Smith, whose research teams are tackling the world’s most pressing problems.

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Professor Bruno Tremblay, one of Canada’s leading researchers on global warming, goes to the Canadian Arctic to measure sea ice melt and predicts an ice-free Arctic in summer.

Dr. Donald Smith is James McGill Professor and Chair of the Department of Plant Science. His research interests are in the area of plant ecophysiology.

Maude Barlow, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, a group looking to stop the world commodification of water, and author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water, discusses the water crisis in Canada and around the world.

Distinguished American environmentalist James Gustave Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale, presents the Beatty Memorial Lecture.