{"id":2220,"date":"2013-01-22T10:01:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:35:10","slug":"the-world-afire-a-lunch-and-learn-session-with-professor-nigel-roulet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/the-world-afire-a-lunch-and-learn-session-with-professor-nigel-roulet\/","title":{"rendered":"The World Afire: A Lunch and Learn Session with Professor Nigel Roulet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/Afire.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2223 alignright\" title=\"Earth in flames\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/Afire.jpg\" alt=\"Earth in flames\" width=\"195\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/Afire.jpg 325w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/Afire-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2013\/01\/Afire-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>\u201cMedia reports are full of doom and gloom about the increasing frequency of strange or extreme weather events and their effects: lack of food security, pollution, invasive species, economic recession, rising incidences of tropical diseases and superbugs, cancer and other catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of feeling overwhelmed or helpless by all this bad news, we should be asking: How can we clean up the mess we are leaving for future generations? Can my help really make a difference to leave planet Earth a better place? Is it my problem?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Environmental expert Professor Nigel Roulet will give a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alumni.mcgill.ca\/aoc\/events-travel\/EventDetails.php?id=MTc4OTE=\">lunch and learn session<\/a> to address these issues and answer your questions.<\/p>\n<p>Date\/Time:\u00a0 Friday, February 1, 2013 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM<\/p>\n<p>Location(s):\u00a0 Room 232, Robert Vogel Council Room, Leacock Building, McGill University<\/p>\n<p>RSVP\/Pre-Register: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alumni.mcgill.ca\/aoc\/events-travel\/EventDetails.php?id=MTc4OTE=\">required <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contact:\u00a0 Event Registrar at <a href=\"mailto:campuscommunity@mcgill.ca\">campuscommunity@mcgill.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image: <a href=\"http:\/\/office.microsoft.com\/en-us\/images\/results.aspx?qu=global+warming&amp;ex=1#ai:MP900437381|\"><em>Earth in flames<\/em><\/a> from Microsoft Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMedia reports are full of doom and gloom about the increasing frequency of strange or extreme weather events and their effects: lack of food security, pollution, invasive species, economic recession, rising incidences of tropical diseases and superbugs, cancer and other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/the-world-afire-a-lunch-and-learn-session-with-professor-nigel-roulet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-session"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}