WHERE?
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 when I am in the neighbourhood.
I am always happy to do presentations/speeches at various formal and informal events and enjoy interactive events see Speaker for more info. So if I am going to be in your neighbourhood please 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 months or more. 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. So please help me out if you can.
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[So far the entire year is open for the first time ever. That's a bit terrifying for an independent journalist but after an extremely busy past two years maybe I shouldn't be too surprised. Hopefully some things will turn up, feel free to contact me about your events. -- Steve]
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***
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
Stumble It!
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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Martin Salmon
August 8, 2007 at 10:26 am
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
Danny Bloom
September 29, 2007 at 10:22 pm