Flipside at Livable Cities Forum
FlipSide Sustainability is helping build the Low Carbon Resilience (LCR) stream of the Livable Cities Forum this year, being held in Victoria, October 28-30. Building LCR in communities has the [...]
LOW CARBON RESILIENCE: Landscape-level climate action for the 21st century
The recently released IPCC SR15 report is unequivocal: we are beginning to experience the impacts of climate change, and it will take “rapid, far reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects [...]
Legal Rights for the Whanganui
My son and I recently traveled to New Zealand. We had three things we wanted to experience: 1) a first-hand glimpse of the fierce and glorious Maori haka 2) a wander through Hobbiton, Peter [...]
Trumped at the G20. What next?
The international policy community has pledged to edify the Paris Accord despite Trump’s recent departure. While international decision makers rebuked Trump and the US at the most recent [...]
Energy literacy, climate change and investor action
The Fresh Outlook Foundation’s Fresh Dialogues Speaker Series hosted a session on energy literacy and its relationship to climate action. FlipSide’s, Alison Shaw, was a panel speaker [...]
The co-benefits of climate action
The co-benefits of climate action are significant but still underreported. What scientists and leading urban planners and CEO’s have known for awhile is that there are many reasons to act [...]
A turning point for human enterprise
The COP21 negotiations in Paris last week mark a new era of business consciousness. German climate scientist, Joachim Schellnhuber aptly remarks, “This is a turning point in the human enterprise, [...]
FlipSide works to link sustainability and health promotion on campuses worldwide
The recent release of the 2015 Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting Universities and Colleges marks a precedent setting challenge for campuses worldwide to recognize [...]