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Blue Cities 2025 Conference
Julia spoke at the Blue Cities 2025 Conference in Mississauga, Ontario on May 14, as an invited panelist focused on ‘Securing Canada’s water future: Strategies for availability and demand management’. The panel covered a range of topics, from balancing immediate vs long-term needs and resilience, to equity, to key considerations for water management and supply strategies. Julia emphasized a water resilience perspective that focuses on equity and encourages relationship- and empathy-building. Blue Cities is an annual conference that brings together strategic decision makers in the municipal water sector across Canada to address key issues. This year’s focus was on strategic management of risk in uncertain times.
Resnet annual Meeting
Julia is in Quebec this week to share the current and proposed future research directions of the empathy for sustainability project. She’s participating in the ResNet annual meeting, where Julia is a co-lead of a theme focused on ecosystem services governance and decision support tools. The meeting brings together social and natural science researchers from across Canada.
Event Photos
2025 World Water day Celebration
[21 March 2025] Photo taken by Janine Duff.
PECS III Conference
[12 - 15 August 2024] Our lab members Julia, Gillian, Hannah, and Elson will be speaking on the latest theoretical advancements, debates, and empirical research about empathy during this organized oral symposium.
PECS III conference session photo
Front row (L to R):
Elson Galang, Gillian Dale, Lauren Lambert;
Back row (L to R):
Julia Baird, Hannah Marlen Lübker
Empathy primer question
Question posed to audience to prepare them for the session.
Hannah presenting
Hannah presenting on ecological empathy to packed room.
Ad for session
Our ads for our session were posted around the conference to help draw people to the session. Thanks to Elson for the genius idea!
hike up Mont Royal
Beautiful sunset 🌅
View from Mont Royal of Montreal.
Stairs up MonT ROYAL
A bit of a metaphor for the work still to do on empathy for sustainability – we are just at the start of the work / climb!
LAB LIFE AND OUTINGS
Niagara Glen Hike
[31 July 2024] The lab headed out into nature for a hike! Gillian, Julia, and Jen spent the morning in the Niagara Glen, one of our favourite local hiking spots! We soaked in the beauty of the place and spent some time next to the Niagara River. We look forward to another opportunity to connect with nature in the fall.
Moss, rocks and awesome people.
Pretty view.
Obligatory selfie, smile!
Delicious looking mushroom.
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Beautiful Weather!