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Cooling Bodies, Cooling Communities: Building Holistic Resilience to Heat Stress

27 March 2020

“Heat is such a difficult threat to grapple with because it engages with and exacerbates multiple forms of pre-existing vulnerability…

Opinion

Food as a Tool for Change in Troubled Times

23 March 2020

We sit down with the FoodLab Sydney community to talk about connection, collaboration and how “the simple act of eating…

Opinion

Re-Inventing the Social: Eco-Design, Care and Climate Justice

20 March 2020

At our SEI Amplified event last week on Reducing the Impact of Heatwaves, Associate Professor Tess Lea explored the intersections between…

Q&A

Q&A With 2020 Honours Fellow Zoe Stojanovic-Hil

18 March 2020

Welcome to Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, who is joining the Institute from the Department of Government and International Relations. What are you…

News

Sydney Environment Institute Suspends Events Until Further Notice

13 March 2020

In view of the latest developments concerning the spread of COVID-19, Sydney Environment Institute has decided to suspended all events…

Opinion

Who Is the Law For? Drinking Water Governance and Climate Justice in Northern Australia

12 March 2020

Many remote Australian communities regularly experience water contamination and supply failures, shortfalls which are often excused with localised factors like…

Q&A

Q&A With 2020 Honours Fellow Sarah Chow

12 March 2020

Get to know our new Honours Research Fellow Sarah Chow, who joins the Institute from the School of Geosciences. What…

Q&A

Q&A With 2020 Honours Fellow Stella Maynard

09 March 2020

Get to know one of the Institute’s new Honours Research Fellows, Stella Maynard, from the Department of Gender and Cultural…

News

Welcome to Our 2020 Honours Research Fellows

03 March 2020

We are excited to welcome Sarah Chow, Stella Maynard and Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, to the SEI team as our new 2020 Honours…

Q&A

Introducing New Postdoctoral Research Fellow June Rubis

02 March 2020

We sit down with our new postdoc June Rubis, to talk about her work on native relations and the environment…

Reflection

SEI Celebrates More Than a ‘Bight’ Sized Win as Equinor Pulls out of Bight Oil Project

26 February 2020

After months of collaborative recommendations and campaigning efforts between Sydney Environment Institute’s academic experts, Greenpeace and community activist groups, Norwegian…

Opinion

Strange Bedfellows: A New Era of Resilience and Uncertainty

26 February 2020

Australians are still reeling from the aftermath of the recent onslaught of fire, rain and floods, daily lives upended by…

Reflection

Neighbourhood Heat Stress Response: Reflections on a Community Focused Workshop

21 February 2020

In light of Australia’s hottest year on record, SEI researchers met with influential community members in a workshop dedicated to…

Opinion

From Denial to Resilience: The Slippery Discourse of Obfuscating Climate Action

20 February 2020

Christopher Wright and Michael E. Mann unveil the government’s illusive acknowledgement of a warming planet, questioning whether their actions will…

Opinion

When Fire Burnt (Some Of) the Boundaries

18 February 2020

Sydney Environment Institute researcher Danielle Celermajer returns with an update on Jimmy, her loyal rescue pig, whose tale of miraculous…

News

Thom van Dooren Ventures to Northern Lands for Exciting New Research

17 February 2020

University of Sydney Associate Professor Thom van Dooren has been appointed to a new position as a Professor II at…

Q&A

Thinking Beyond the Bushfires

14 February 2020

PhD candidate and Sydney Environment Institute research assistant Eva Perroni talks to PolisPlan directors, Steven Liaros and Nilmini De Silva,…

Reflection

Reflections on the 2020 Iain McCalman Lecture

11 February 2020

“The message from Dinesh was clear; the devastating impacts of the environmental crisis we have been experiencing in recent months…

Opinion

We Need to Take up the Burden of Remaking the World

10 February 2020

Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton consider how the past summer of drought and bushfire — and the rain that…

Opinion

Australia and Climate Change: A Collective Action Problem

10 February 2020

As Australia has burned in a climate emergency summer, our Prime Minister Scott Morrison has not only been untruthful about…

Q&A

Welcome Genevieve Wright, SEI’s New Events and Administrator Coordinator

10 February 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Events and Administrator Coordinator, Genevieve Wright. “For me, SEI is a figurehead in this battle…

Opinion

The End of the Beach

03 February 2020

At Mallacoota, Tamboon, and elsewhere, this summer’s unprecedented bushfires drove thousands to take shelter on the shore—and permanently transformed one…

Opinion

Fire, Storm, Flood, Blackout: Australia’s Electricity Sector Needs Better Disaster Response

23 January 2020

In the wake of unprecedented climate-induced disaster, Australia’s electricity sector urgently needs to learn from Con Edison’s response to Hurricane…

Q&A

Christine Dundas Joins the SEI Professional Staff Team

22 January 2020

The Institute welcomes our new Project and Communications Officer, Christine Dundas, who takes the reigns from Eloise Fetterplace who is…