Connecting Conservation
Promoting the exchange of conservation ideas across disciplines and communities
Category: People
The Planet Takes McGill University: March 15th
Written by Alison Gu We hear it all the time: today’s youth are more anxious than any other preceding generation; we’re experiencing high rates of burn-out; we’re lazier, with less drive and ambition. People attribute these fallibilities to everything from our social media usage…
Useful Science: The Art of Communicating Science Accurately and Accessibly
Written by Kathleen Godfrey Nearly a year after a friend shared a Useful Science summary that they wrote on Facebook, I found myself troubleshooting technological issues to video chat with Maryse Thomas, who leads a board of five co-directors who run the website and…
Illuminating the Issue of ‘Light Pollution’
Written by Daniel Silver The notion that light can be a form of ‘pollution’ is relatively new. For millennia the word ‘light’ carried solely positive connotations. The Hebrew Torah begins with God creating light and declaring it good in Genesis 1:3. Influenced by this…
Where To Begin: Realizing the Connecting Conservation Mission
Written by Kathleen Godfrey Connecting Conservation is an initiative conceived of and powered by a four person team of current and former McGill University students coming from different academic and life experience backgrounds, and who have varied skill sets and passions. That being said,…
Overcoming the Empathy problem in Activism (Part II)
Written by Celeste Welch Echo chambers of thought and opinion (closed ‘spaces’ that produce reverberations) are highly encouraged in a number of communities to which I belong. If you want to go for days without interacting with a particular demographic or with those who…
Overcoming the Empathy problem in Activism (Part I)
Written by Celeste Welch During my privileged small town American childhood, I quickly learned that traits associated with conventional ‘femininity’ were akin to weakness. To purify myself of this, I engaged in countless behaviours that I associated with strength, independence, and worthiness. Years…
