Climate Solutions
Events
Women Talking Climate: Living Labs Workshop
“Living Labs are user-centered, open-innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach, integrating research and innovation processes in real-life communities and settings.” We hold this truth to be self-evident: not only do women play an essential role in ensuring the long-term wellbeing of their communities, especially in times of crisis, but we cannot weather ...read more
Thursday, Jun 4 Upstart & Crow Studio
Pitch Me Maybe: A Speed-Pitch Social for Science Stories
Scientists! Have you ever wanted your research to travel beyond the page or the lab? Join us on Wednesday, June 3 at 6:30 p.m. for a fast-paced, experimental evening designed to explore exactly that. Inspired by speed-dating, this event pairs scientists or researchers with our crew of journalists for a series of rapid, one-on-one exchanges. ...read more
Wednesday, Jun 3 Upstart & Crow Studio
Upstart Climate Book Club: Vigil
Upstart & Crow’s Climate Book Club meets every second month to read and discuss works that illuminate the complexity of our shared ecological present. While some are urgent works of non-fiction, and others are novels or hybrid texts, each book is chosen with care for its ability to open new vantage points, challenge easy answers, and — ...read more
Wednesday, May 27 Upstart & Crow Studio
‘Becoming Ecological’: A Book Launch with Derek Gladwin & Kedrick James
Join us to launch Becoming Ecological, a thoughtful and timely new book by Derek Gladwin and Kedrick James that explores how language — our words, stories, conversations, and beliefs — shape our ability to respond to the environmental challenges of our time. Becoming Ecological offers a fresh perspective on the natural world by insisting that ...read more
Thursday, Apr 2 Upstart & Crow Studio
Suzuki at 90: In Conversation with Gloria Macarenko
At 90 years old, David Suzuki continues to provoke new thinking and promote more urgent action by all of us concerned about the impact of climate change — and what it portends for human survival on our one planet. Join us on Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. to launch Lessons From a Lifetime, and join ...read more
Wednesday, Apr 1 The Modern Green Auditorium at the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
We hold this truth to be self-evident: not only do women play an essential role in ensuring the long-term wellbeing of their communities, especially in times of crisis, but we cannot weather the climate impacts we face without their leadership and solutions-building. That’s why we’re hosting a free, informal event for women who work in ...read more
Thursday, Mar 5 Upstart & Crow Studio
Joy, Grief, Magic: Why We Need YA Climate Stories & How to Tell Them
At a moment when climate anxiety is rising and youth are inundated with narratives of doom, the stories we tell matter more than ever. Join author, organizer, and researcher Grace Nosek for an urgent and energizing workshop on why young people need climate stories that make room for complexity, and how to tell them well. ...read more
Thursday, Feb 19 Upstart & Crow Studio
What if your research did more than convey facts, but could move people? Join journalist Anne Shibata Casselman for a one-of-a-kind writing workshop that invites researchers to explore how storytelling can bring science to life on the page. To help uncover the essential message you want to convey, we’ll begin by distilling your research into a ...read more
Wednesday, Jan 28 Upstart & Crow Studio
Writer’s Block: An Evening of Climate Writing
Struggling to commit to your journal? Hitting a rough patch in your thesis? Feel like your op-ed is swirling the drain? As a great storyteller once said; “My world’s on fire - how about yours?” Join local environmental group the sword fern collective for an evening of focused writing and community connection. In these infamously unprecedented times, ...read more
Thursday, Nov 13 Upstart & Crow Studio
‘Red Pockets’: A Morning with Alice Mah
What do we owe to past and future generations? What do we owe to the places that we inhabit? Join us online on Sunday, October 26 at 9:30am to celebrate Alice Mah’s new book, Red Pockets, shortlisted for the 2025 Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing. Red Pockets is a moving meditation on ancestry, belonging, and the ...read more
Sunday, Oct 26 Online via Zoom
Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Join us on Thursday, September 11 at 6:30pm for an author talk with writer and political scientist Alyssa Battistoni in celebration of her new book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon ...read more
Thursday, Sep 11 Upstart & Crow Studio
The Way Around: A Q&A with Nicholas Triolo
Join us on Tuesday, July 15 at 7pm for an intimate Q&A with writer, editor, and athlete Nicholas Triolo, whose new book The Way Around has been hailed as a “beautiful, intricate rebuke to our obsession with linearity and outcome” (Robert MacFarlane). Raised in a family of elite athletes—and in a culture obsessed with goals, grit, and linear achievement—Nicholas Triolo ...read more
Tuesday, Jul 15 Upstart & Crow Studio