Am I watching a “you’re on mute!!” situation on Integrity??
Sarah Burch
@sarahlynnburch.bsky.social
Professor, Canada Research Chair - Sustainability transitions and climate change policy. University of Waterloo, 🇨🇦 Executive Director, Waterloo Climate Institute. IPCC LA 6AR, WGIII.
I’m so happy with this article-the result of 8 years of collaboration across 7 countries. We mapped deeply sustainable business models, built capacity to try new things, & co-created potentially transformative sustainability experiments with small businesses. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Building capacity for sustainability transformations through transdisciplinary experimentation: Empirical evidence from a novel methodology deployed in 7 countries
In 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) established that global greenhouse gas emissions trajectories are not on track to limiti…
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If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
One of my favorite things this week is Timothée Chalamet trashing ballet and opera, and the internet coming back with “what’s easier for AI to come and take: Marty Supreme or a live performance of Swan Lake?”
“A strategy of control uses terror tactics to create a violent resistance to justify its brutal subjugation and as an excuse to change laws enlarging the definition of terrorism and treason. Regimes then use the surrounding chaos and noise to continue its other initiatives.”
Reyhan Harmanci@harmancipants.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe asked an expert to tell us what they thought of ICE's military moves. It was worse than I thought (but the writing is great) www.wired.com/story/ice-pr...
At Oslo City Hall this evening (where the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded) with my spectacular IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities colleagues. The IPCC received the Nobel here in 2007, so it’s a beautiful full circle moment.
Our IPCC meeting that starts in Oslo on Monday will be unusually fraught, given the US decision to pull out of virtually all meaningful international collaboration (including the IPCC), escalating threats against Greenland etc. No better time to reinforce our friendships and trust across borders.
Taking some enjoyment in a prospective student’s email that starts with the header “Draft reply - (English - concise academic)” I fear if that we can’t craft a four-line email under our own steam then a PhD might prove… challenging.
I have this goal of playing two hours of piano each day over the holidays and it’s both amazing and totally murdering my poor brain.
It would be cool if someone would throw resources at the Munk Debates podcast so they could improve their audio editing. Hearing the voice get closer to and farther from the mic, the breathing and sighs of the second speaker - super tough (for me) to listen to, despite incredibly important content.
It’s a Christmas miracle! Our paper is here: with more than 50 cases of pretty radically sustainable small businesses, and over 100 different practices, we mapped how actions unfolded, and investigated the ecosystem of actors that enabled them. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Sequencing sustainability and climate solutions: a systems view of implementation - Sustainability Science
Despite a decade of increasing global temperatures and unprecedented climate change associated impacts, global emissions have risen, and the impacts of climate change continue to threaten community he...
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Dr. Sarah Burch at University of Waterloo shares how our world-class unviersities are helping Canada meet the challenges of a changing climate. Only at Universities Canada presents The Walrus Talks Innovation Nation. WalrusTalksInnovationNation.e... #InnovationNation #MadeInCanada
Last week in Canmore, The Resilience Institute team wrapped up a dynamic workshop co-hosted by the Waterloo Climate Institute, bringing together participants from across the Rocky Mountain tourism corridor—from Canmore to Jasper. 1/4 - Continued in comments ⤵️
in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa
I’ve decided that there IS in fact a god, and she’s taken it upon herself to teach humans an unforgettable lesson on the difference between correlation and causation, so poof! she creates RFK Jr.
Does anyone on here know who’s working on small-scale (ideally solar-powered) desalination technology? Are there examples of this working, particularly in tough contexts like informal settlements/slums?
Diana Fox Carney was so generous with her time last week, coming to Waterloo to offer the keynote that kicked off our TRANSFORM project’s final symposium. She was frank, nuanced, and compelling. I was able to pepper her with questions during our “fireside chat” - a highlight of the week for me!
Final moments before a much anticipated keynote address by Diana Fox Carney tonight in Waterloo, kicking off our TRANSFORM symposium. I’m so looking forward to our “fireside chat” after her keynote! @uwaterlooclimate.bsky.social
Received reviews back on a paper we submitted a couple of months ago and there are ten reviewers! TEN!! I’m so confused.
I’m going to have an AI spouse, access to zero verifiably human-made art, and a life expectancy of 200 before I will be able to log in to Editorial Manager without resetting my password every. Single. Time.
It’s super eerie to notice the not-so-subtle infiltration of AI-generated “creators” on TikTok. Gross.
I’m hosting a community-engaged symposium in September that’s the culmination of a 7-year long multi-country project on sustainability experiments… and I’m SO PSYCHED about the keynote speaker who will launch the event. (It’s a big secret until we launch our registration but I’m all giddy)
Does anyone know if there is a version of Bloomberg’s “What’s really warming the world?” animation that can be shared/downloaded and embedded in a presentation?? It all seems to be stuck behind paywalls. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...
What's Really Warming the World?
What's Really Warming the World? Climate deniers blame natural factors; NASA data proves otherwise
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Wrapping up a super intense week in Mombasa, working on the @ipcc.bsky.social Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. I’m kind of obsessed with this crew - giant brains from all over, working so hard together, through tensions and cultural differences.
I’d love to understand patterns like this is academic paper titling. Different journals, different years, and I didn’t enter “mediating role” into my search. So weird.
Curious about the impacts of #climatechange in the Waterloo Region? Listen to @uwaterloo.ca' s Sarah Burch as she chats about local impacts of climate change on Your Region Pod: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...
A local look at climate change and the Region
Podcast Episode · Your Region Pod · 2025-06-16 · 11m
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We are excited to launch a new #drr training video spearheaded by @sarahlynnburch.bsky.social & Dr. Jose Di Bella "“Building Disaster Resilience across Business Supply Systems: Understanding, planning and Investing in Climate Change Adaptation”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvqo...
Building Disaster Resilience across Business Supply Systems
YouTube video by Waterloo Climate Institute
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The amount of willpower it takes to dance through the minefield when you know you’re having dinner with a MAHA acolyte…