Grow Canada? Multiculturalism, environmental policy and planning.
Canada’s official state policy is, and has been since the Trudeau government of the 1970s, one of multiculturalism. It became firmly entrenched in Canada’s Constitution (Canada Act 1982), and law in…
Read MoreNew book series on the theme of this blog – Just sustainabilities: Policy, planning and practice
Zed Books, an independent academic U.K. publisher with a reputation for cutting-edge international publishing, is commissioning an exciting series on key themes within the framework of just sustainabilities. I am…
Read MoreAre we modeling on campus the change we want to see in the world?
In October 2010, I gave a keynote lecture at the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) annual conference in Denver. The conference theme was ‘Campus Initiatives to Catalyze…
Read MoreFair shares in environmental space?
4.5/25 is the most dangerous statistic on the planet. It reveals a bloated truth, that the U.S. with just 4.5% of the world’s population consumes 25% of the world’s resources. This…
Read MoreInclusive or exclusive spaces?
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about public spaces and spatial justice (which “links together social justice and space”). Two books have greatly influenced my thinking on this. In his book, Convivial Urban…
Read MoreSpatial justice on Södra Vägen
Sitting outside in the July sun at Frank’s Coffee, on Södra Vägen in Göteborg, Sweden is very different from sitting outside in the sun at Simon’s, on Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge,…
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