School of the Environment, University of Toronto

10/13/2026

⚙️🌱 SEA Annual Sustainability Conference 2026 🌱⚙️

How can we design more sustainable systems for the future?

Join the Sustainable Engineers Association (SEA) at the University of Toronto on October 24, 2026, at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology for our annual Sustainability Conference!

Hear from leading academics and industry professionals, explore innovative approaches to green infrastructure, climate resilience, & environmental policy, and connect with employers at our Sustainability Career Fair.

Featured speakers include Prof. John Robinson, Dr. Sanjida Moury (TTC), Daniel J. Tse (Stantec), Jennifer Taves (TRCA), Mick Prieur (Cement Association of Canada), Mohammad Tahvili (Inwit), and more.

🥐 Enjoy a catered breakfast and lunch while exchanging ideas with students, researchers, and sustainability professionals.
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Early bird tickets are available now!
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10/06/2026

Assistant Professor Michael Classens published "Institutional betrayal in climate action: Youth experiences and future pathways" in Environmental Science & Policy.
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Highlights

•Many youth are experiencing climate anxiety and institutional climate betrayal.

•Youth perceive a disconnect between themselves and institutions on climate action.

•Some youth remain willing to collaborate with institutions in specific, bounded ways.

•Other youth are building the future they want to see outside of institutions.

•Offers strategies institutions might adopt to avoid further deepening mistrust.

10/01/2026

📢 Applications for our 2027-28 Master of Environment & Sustainability (MES) cohort now open!

The MES is an intensive, 12-month research-stream program that responds to the growing need of society to understand and develop solutions to the environmental and human well-being challenges facing us in the 21st century.

📆 The deadline to apply is January 8, 2027. https://buff.ly/AvtHrkN

Find out more at the Master of Environment and Sustainability (MES) Open House
Virtual: October 7 | 11am - 12 pm, EST
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In-person: October 7 | 6 – 7 pm | ES1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue
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Applications will be evaluated in their entirety. All submitted documents, including academic transcripts, reference letters, applicant statements and CVs, will be considered as part of the admissions process.

09/30/2026

Environment Seminar Series:

When Green Meets Red: Making Environmental Decisions on the Farm with Jennifer Doelman.

Date: 14 October, 2026
Time: 10 - 11:30 am
ONLINE
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Farmers are often encouraged to adopt practices that improve environmental outcomes—but environmental decision-making on the farm rarely happens in isolation. Every decision must also account for weather, markets, labour, time, risk, cash flow and, importantly, the ability of the farming family to maintain a reasonable standard of living.

In this seminar, Jennifer will share her experience navigating competing priorities on her own farm. She will discuss her environmental goals, approach to soil health, and the values that shape the decisions she makes about land she farms.

09/29/2026

Professor Jessica Green was interviewed for the the Corporate Knights article "A solution for failing climate policy: Make fossil fuels unprofitable".
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"Part of the liberal fantasy was that if you build it, they will come. If you make EVs or solar cheap enough, then it will just happen. But it doesn’t work that way. The testimony to that fact is that we know how to have free electricity, and yet we don’t have it. It’s not a technical problem; it’s an economic and political problem."

INTERVIEW | Trading emissions won’t solve climate change, Jessica Green argues. Instead, we need to go after the owners of fossil assets.

09/25/2026

🎉 Professor Steve Easterbrook, director of the School of the Environment, was awarded the AGU Tyndall History of Global Environmental Change Lecture. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to our understanding of global environmental change.

AGU, the world's largest Earth and space science association, celebrates individuals and teams through its annual Honors and Recognition program for their accomplishments in research, education, science communication, and outreach. These honorees have transformed our understanding of the world, impacted our everyday lives, improved our communities and contributed to solutions for a sustainable future.
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09/21/2026

Karuara: People of the River (Film Screening & Presentation)

Director Stephanie Boyd will present the award-winning film Karuara: People of the River followed by a time for questions and discussion. Learn about the worldview, lives, and struggles of the Kukama Indigenous people as they resist extractivism and seek the recognition
of the Marañon River, a major tributary of the Amazon, as a legal person with rights.

October 1, 2026
7:15 - 9:45 pm
Robarts Library Film Theatre; RL 3-025
Robarts Library,130 St George Street

Please register as space is limited: https://buff.ly/xxS564a

09/19/2026

Master of Environment and Sustainability (MES) Open House

Virtual: October 7 | 11am - 12 pm, EST
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In-person: October 7 | 6 – 7 pm | ES1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue
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The Master of Environment and Sustainability (MES) Open House will give prospective students the opportunity to learn more about the program, application process, and graduate studies at the University of Toronto. Program representatives will include faculty, students, and staff.

Applications for the 2026-27 cohort open on October 1, 2026!

09/14/2026

Environment Seminar Series:
Repowering the Global Economy with Kirsty Gogan, Managing Partner at LUCIDCATALYST and Co-Founder of TERRAPRAXIS.

Every major oil shock has defined the energy system that followed it. This talk examines what energy system the present shock should build.
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Date: 30 September, 2026
Time: 10 - 11:30 am
ONLINE

09/08/2026

The School of the Environment's 2026–27 Viewbook is here!

We use many different terms to describe what we do at the School: community engagement, place-based learning, transdisciplinary research, and so on. But however we label it, we’re motivated by the need to make stronger connections between how we think, how we feel, and how we act: the head, the heart, and the hands. In these pages, you’ll see many different ways this plays out in the work we do at the School.
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