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Professor and Head, Dept. of Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia

A crowd observes the world’s first Earth Day on April 23, 1970, in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia. (AP Photo)

April 19, 2020

Earth Day at 50: A look to the past offers hope for the planet’s future

Philippe Tortell, University of British Columbia

When the current crisis passes, we must seize the opportunity to re-imagine, and to create, a different kind of future.

Memory can serve as a heavy reminder of the past. Indigenous people gather in Shubenacadie, N.S., in June 2008 to remember the residents of a former residential school and the abuses they suffered. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Dembeck

November 7, 2019

The importance of personal memory on Remembrance Day

Philippe Tortell, University of British Columbia; Margot Young, University of British Columbia, and Mark Turin, University of British Columbia

Memories can be powerful tools to address humanity’s most difficult political, sociological and environmental problems

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