And why you might want to know
My home base is Uxbridge northeast of Toronto (the pic is from Alaska not Ux ;)). I put my travel itinerary here so I can be contacted about suggestions for story ideas or people to meet while travelling.
I am always happy to do presentations/speeches at various formal and informal events see Speaker for more info. If I am going to be in your neighbourhood do get in touch.
Conflicted Traveler?
There are environmental impacts resulting from my travel and I try to minimize them because offsetting my carbon emissions isn’t enough. I travel by train or bus when I can. I don’t fly in and out to cover an event or do a talk, instead I link several events together even if it means being away from home for 2 or 3 months at a time. The upside is remaining in a place for many days or weeks allowing more time to meet people, find out what is happening locally and research other stories. One of the downsides is the cost – travel expenses are rarely covered by publications these days. I can only do what I do thanks to friends, contacts and the sheer kindness of strangers who provide a couch, spare room or garage to sleep in (thanks Michael!) And that often turns out to be another upside to travel. Thank you all.
[last updated Jan 15 2015]
2015
Much of this year’s travel will involve speaking about my new book Your Water Footprint : The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products. I’d be happy to talk to your group or organization about how water is so much more important and useful than oil. Please contact me.
December
COP 21 – Paris
February 8-24, 2015 California
Los Angles Area
MUSE talks – Feb 11, 6 to 8 pm Calabasas
San Francisco Area
January
Home base in Uxbridge, near Toronto.
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2014
I am not travelling as frequently in 2014. Working on my book Your Water Footprint : The Shocking Facts About How Much Water We Use to Make Everyday Products. Published Oct 17 2014
November-December
Book launch events in Toronto, Uxbridge, Ottawa
October
Copenhagen
Sustainability Science conference
Berlin-Bonn Germany
UN Bonn Climate Conference
June
Toronto
“Inside International Climate Treaty Negotiations”
Bridgetown, Barbados
World Environment Day
March
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Nexus 2014: Water, Food, Climate and Energy Conference
2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013
***JANUARY-APRIL***
Home base – Uxbridge
2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012
*** NOVEMBER-DECEMBER***
DOHA, QATAR
COP 18 — UN climate change negotiation
***OCTOBER***
MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA
Third International Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2World.
***SEPTEMBER***
COOK ISLANDS
***JULY/AUGUST***
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND
International Coral Reef Symposium – Cairns
***JUNE***
RIO DE JANERIO June 10-20
RIO+20 –United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD
***MAY***
NEW YORK CITY (tentative)
UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
****MARCH/APRIL***
CAIRNS, AUSTRALIA
Climate Change Mitigation with Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples
***FEBRUARY***
EDMONTON, CANADA
Tar Sands
VANCOUVER, CANADA
AAAS – Vancouver
***JANUARY***
Home base – Uxbridge
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(in reverse order)
**** NOVEMBER/DECEMBER ****
DURBAN, SOUTH AFRICA
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 17
**** OCTOBER****
CHANGWON, KOREA
UNCCD – United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
****JULY/AUGUST/SEPTEMBER****
THE HAGUE 30 JUNE – 2 JULY
****JUNE****
Vienna, Austria June 21-23
Vienna Energy Forum 2011 – Energy for All
Oslo, Norway June 14-16 (TBD – no travel funding )
Forest Europe – Ministerial Forest Conference
Bonn, Germany June 7 -17
UNFCCC – SBSTA meetings
Oslo, Norway June 5-7
Nansen Conference – Climate Refugees
Berlin, Germany June 1-5
*** MAY***
Leipzig, Germany May 23-30
2011 International Transport Forum – TRANSPORT FOR SOCIETY
****APRIL***
CANADA’S FEDERAL ELECTION
****MARCH***
Honolulu, Hawaii March 20-24
International Marine Debris conference
2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010
*** DECEMBER ***
Cancun, Mexico Nov 25 – Dec 18
Climate Change Conference UNFCCC COP 16
*** NOVEMBER ***
home for three weeks 8 Nov – 24 Nov
*** OCTOBER ***
Nagoya, Japan 14 Oct – Nov 6
Convention on Biodiversity, COP 10 conference, Nagoya, Japan
London 1 -6
Census of Marine Life, London, UK (No funding avail)
*** SEPTEMBER ***
Montreal 12-16
World Energy Congress, Montreal (No funding)
*** AUGUST ***
Oaxaca, Mexico 25 -31
Community Forestry Workshop (cancelled – no funding)
Aug 1 -12 Vienna
United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
*** JULY***
Berlin, Germany & Vienna, Austria
*** JUNE ***
Bonn, Germany June 19 -24
Climate Change and the Media
DEUTSCHE WELLE GLOBAL MEDIA FORUM 2010
Amsterdam, June 15 -19
Forest Day, University of Leiden
Oslo – June 5 -14
*** MAY***
Nairobi, Kenya – May 12 – June 4
Convention on Biodiversity — SBSTTA /WGRI meetings
World Oceans Network conference
Paris – May 1 – 7 (cancelled, no funding avail)
UNESCO Global Oceans conference (if funding is avail)
***APRIL***
Nairobi & region Apr 18 – 30 (funding withdrawn)
— visits to UNEP and other parts of Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya – April 5-17 (funding withdrawn)
How will Africa feed her children? Media Training for African Journalists Workshop/ Trainer
Kuna Yala, Panama Apr 1 – 9
Covering the indigenous peoples biocultural workshop adapting to CC and media training
***MARCH***
Montpellier, France Mar 23 – 31
Covering CIFOR (community forestry) & CGARD (ag research priorities to feed the world) conferences
Toronto – March 2-3
National Canadian Sustainability Indicators Network Conference
Speaker
***FEBRUARY***
Bali, Indonesia Feb 21 – 27 (unable to attend – visa issue)
Ministerial gathering on the environment,chemicals and wastes/PLUS Chemicals and Waste Ministerial/UNEP Ministerial Meeting/Media Training Workshop
Victoria, Seychelles Islands Feb 1 -4
Seychelles 1st Indian Ocean Tuna Conference
Victoria, Seychelles Islands Feb 1 -4
World Wetlands Week 2010 Celebration
***JANUARY***
Paris Jan 31 – Feb 2
Seafood Summit 2010
Paris, Jan 25-29
UNESCO International Year of Biodiversity Science Policy Conference
Paris, Jan 21 -22
UNESCO Biodiversity High Level Decision Makers
2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009 2009
***DECEMBER***
Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec 5 – 21
UNFCCC conference – Copenhagen Climate Change Conference
(Thanks to IPS and many individual supporters)
***NOVEMBER***
Alliston, Canada
A.D. Latornell Conservation Symposium,
Merida, Mexico, Nov 1 – 13
WILD9 – World Wilderness Conference
(Thanks to support from the WILD Foundation)
***OCTOBER***
Toronto (Uxbridge)
***SEPTEMBER***
Oxford University, Oxford England Sept 27-30
+4 C and Beyond
– unable to obtain travel funding
Zaragoza University, Zaragoza, Spain Sept 23-25
[canceled] Moderator, International Media Consultation on Water and Climate Change
Columbus Ohio – Sept 19-22
Geneva, Switzerland – Aug 29 – Sept 9
ANTICIPATING CLIMATE RISKS — Media 21 Workshop
***AUGUST***
Toronto (Uxbridge)
***JULY***
Vienna, Prague, Berlin etc
***JUNE***
Vienna, Austria — June 20-30
International Energy Conference 2009
London, UK — June 16 -20
International Institute for Environment and Development
Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen Island, Svalbard Norway — June 11-15
UNIS – The University Centre in Svalbard
Svalbard Norway — June 8-10
Climate change: Understanding and influencing global politics towards Copenhagen and beyond”
— thanks to the many generous supporters for helping out with travel funding
MAY
Toronto — May 23 – 31
American Geophysical Union 2009 Joint Assembly
Oshawa — May 9 –
Ontario Society of Environmental Education 60th Annual Conference
University of Ontario Institute of Technology – Speaker
Montreal — May 4-5
* Lower Canada College – Destiny Quebec — Speaker
April
Anchorage, Alaska — April 20 – May 1st
* Indigenous Peoples Global Summit on Climate Change
– thanks to travel funding from UNU and Project Word
Lindsay, Ontario — April 12
* Fleming College – “Our Water” “Our Health” — Speaker
March
Montreal
* University of McGill Green Week — Speaker
Halifax
* King’s College School of Journalism — Speaker
Pictou, Nova Scotia
* Green Party of Canada National Convention
Feb 2009
San Diego
* Seafood Summit 2009
* Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Chicago
* American Academy for Advancement of the Sciences (AAAS)
January 2009
Toronto home base
2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008
November – December 2008
Quebec City, International Arctic Change conference
October 2008
Sherbrooke, Quebec (Unable to attend)
* Speaker, Sierra Youth Coalition National Conference
September 2008
Toronto homebase
August 2008
Zaragoza, Spain — World Expo Zaragoza 2008 “The Biggest Water Festival on Earth” — Speaker
July 2008
Fort Lauderdale, Florida — International Coral Reef Symposium
Barcelona, Spain — Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF 2008)
June 2008
Toronto homebase
May 2008
Accra, Ghana — Lighting Africa Conference on how to bring reliable electrical services to 1.7 billion people who lack access
Gijon, Spain — Effects of Climate Change on the World’s Oceans
Bonn Germany — Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP-9)
April 2008
Johannesburg, South Africa — International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (6-day conference). See coverage here: Feeding the Future
Capetown and elsewhere in South Africa
February 2008
Berlin — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research [Unable to attend – no travel funding]
London, England — Living with climate change: are there limits to adaptation? (2-day conference) [Unable to attend – no travel funding]…..
January 2008
[Update: Conf Postponed] Nairobi, Kenya — International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development (6-day conference) see coverage here: Feeding the Future
Barcelona, Spain — Seafood Summit 2008 (4-day conference) [Unable to attend – no travel funding]
2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007
May to Mid June 2007 home base near Toronto
Summer 2007
Mid to Late June – Sevilla, Spain (speaking at International Forum on Drought)
End June to mid July – Ecuador and Galapagos Islands (covering a conference on the 30th anniversary of the discovery of hydrothermal vents amongst other things)
Mid July to early August – Berlin, Vienna (family time and visits to global climate change research institutions etc) [The many adventures and pixs of these travels are documented here on the Green Quest blog.]
September – Montreal – United Nations Ozone Conference – 20 year Anniversary of the Montreal Protocol
October – Ottawa – Sustainable Development in Canada 2027
Toronto – Green Buildings – Planet in Focus International Environmental Film Festival
November Toronto – World Association of NGOs Summit
I read your piece about ethanol from cellulose. Have you investigated the use of human waste materials, (garbage), for this same application. Absolutely no other use for this except landfills and water pollution, (which we can do without); lots of available raw material; and I think there has been much practical, functional research completed on this.
Check out http://masadaonline.com/index.html. I think this is the foreseeable future in getting the most for the energy savings buck.
Keep up the important work and thank you,
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Steve,
Good reporting on the mad idea of Lovelock and Ripley, a good balanced story, pro and con. Have you ever heard about a new project, also mad, to plan and design and build (now!) so-called “polar cities” to house possible future survivors of climate change in say, the year 2500 or so? But the planning needs to start now, when there is time and fuel and transport and materials and good weather. Would love to see you cover or even mention polar cities in a future article about more mad ideas that people around the world are working on to save humankind from extinction. Or worse.
Chrs
Danny Bloom
http://climatechange3000.blogspot.com