Author Archives: Aleksandar Janicijevic

Climate Change Mitigation in Architecture and Design

At Human/Nature, architects, landscape architects, designers and more will find insight into effective ways for integrating climate-conscious design thinking into their own practices. Students and educators will learn how their work could be aligned to mitigation, adaptation and combatting climate change. Business leaders will see how major industry players are achieving carbon neutrality. City planners […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on August 29, 2024

The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon

Not only is black carbon terrible for human health, but ever-fiercer wildfires are covering the Arctic with the dark particles, accelerating melting. Once again, vast expanses of Canadian wilderness are on fire, threatening towns and forcing thousands to flee. It appears to be a breakout of “zombie fires”: wildfires from last year that never actually […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on August 18, 2024

A Complete Guide to Scrap Metal Recycling

Scrap metal recycling is the process of taking metal that is the byproduct of various industries and products at the end of its life. These include offcuts from manufacturing as well as old cars and appliances. They are then melted again to produce the raw material for a wide range of processes and uses. Metal […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on July 30, 2024

Celebrating Water Watchers

Join us for a ‘lunch & learn’ with Water Watchers and Water Activist Maude Barlow. We will celebrate Water Watchers becoming the newest Blue Community and learn how to use this incredible tool in the movement towards Water Justice. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on July 25, 2024

Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species

Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species. Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on June 28, 2024

AI is an energy hog. This is what it means for CLIMATE CHANGE.

If we build more fossil-fuel plants to meet our growing electricity demand, it’ll come with negative consequences for the climate. But if we use rising electricity demand as a catalyst to lean harder into renewable energy and other low-carbon power sources, and push AI to get more efficient, doing more with less energy, then we […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on May 26, 2024

Joy In The Park

One of the highlights of the event “Joy in the park” was the unveiling of Jamii’s new photo exhibition “Placemaking“, curated by Sabrine S Hakam, with artistic advisor Sarah S Ahmad, and showcasing the talent of seven local photographers. One of the selected photos is mine, “Beware of Artists, they mix with all classes of […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on May 11, 2024

How Solar Farms Help Us And The Bees

Here’s a sunny surprise: solar farms are not just powerhouses for clean energy but are also becoming havens for the bees! Recent research has revealed an exciting dual purpose for these energy fields—they’re helping reverse the decline of bee populations. In the prairies of Minnesota, solar farms have blossomed into vibrant ecosystems. Initiatives to intersperse […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on April 30, 2024