Chapter 5 Questions
+ Voices from the Story and Referenced Resources
Think about it
- What is the scientific process in your own words?
- What did you learn from this story?
- Why does process matter in science?
- Does the scientific process of inquiry need to be revised or evolved? Or does it still work well in today's society?
- How will an understanding of science help you be a better citizen?
- How will you use science in your career?
- What is a two-eyed approach? Why does two-eyed seeing matter?
- Do you think traditional knowledge is a valid form of science?
- How can we learn from multiple knowledge systems?
- How can traditional knowledge and western science work together to inform better processes of inquiry?
- How will you learn from and apply traditional ways of knowing in this class, in science and in life?
- How do you define stewardship?
- Do you think international agreements or treaties work? Why or why not?
- What did you learn about the political process? What surprised you?
- What's our political system's best quality?
- What's our political system's worst quality?
- Do more politicians need a background in science to make better decisions?
- How can science enhance our political process?
- Why does civil society matter?
- How do grassroots movements play a role in shaping our world?
- Why is it important to get involved in your community?
- As a consumer, how do you influence the market?
- Why is it important to understand how our democracy works, no matter what you do in life?
- Do you believe business can help advance good ideas in our society? Why or why not?
- Why is it important to understand economics and the role of business in society, no matter what you do in life?
- Does the process matter?
- Do outcomes matter?
- What process will you use to answer your better question?
- What outcome is necessary to balance people and nature?
- What do you value about our democracy? What will you do to enhance our country and our world?
Reflection Activity
- Open Mic: Just one option this time! Take the floor and tell your peers what lessons you've learned in this story, and the class as a whole. Also! Tell your peers how you might use these lessons to answer your better question.
Nature Labs Resources
Dr. Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko
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Dr. Victoria Lukasik
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From the Podcast Pool
Dr. Larissa Vingilis-Jaremko
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Laura Kennedy
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Andria Dawson and Angela Waldie
A poet and a mathematician sit down at a table. It sounds like the start of a lame joke, but it’s actually the story...
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- Environmental Ethics in Canada
- Peer Review Process
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- Peer Review – Best Practices
- Why is peer review important in science?
- Peer review is a thankless job
- The Feedback Fallacy
- Is Peer Review a Good Idea?
- Peer Review in Science: the pains and problems
- Is it time to review, the review?
- Manipulation of Perceptions about Scientific Fact
- The media's manipulation of scientific perception
- The Science Community vs. the General Public: Building Better Communications by Teaching Scientific Terms as a New Language in the Undergrad Classroom
- Do Scientists Have a Special Responsibility to Engage in Political Advocacy?
- Should scientists engage in advocacy?
- Scientists can be advocates and maintain scientific credibility
- What is “Responsible Advocacy” in Science? Good Advice.
- Scientists as Advocates: The Politicization of Science
- How to Write a Perfect Paragraph
- How to Write a Press Release: 5 Types of Press Releases
- Research funding and awards
- Federal Funding Sources | Research and Innovation
- TRACKS Youth Program
- What Does Indigenous Knowledge Mean? A Compilation of Attributes
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Improving Wildlife Management and Habitat Conservation in British Columbia
- Predator Control as a Tool in Wildlife Management
- B.C. turns its back on science with changes to wildlife management
- In B.C., emotion is trumping science-based wildlife management
- The Myth of Science-Based Wildlife Management
- The World's Best Model for Wildlife
- Why the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation is Problematic for Modern Wildlife Management
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- What is “Indigenous Knowledge” And Why Does It Matter? Integrating Ancestral Wisdom and Approaches into Federal Decision-Making
- Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Knowledge
- Native Knowledge: What Ecologists Are Learning from Indigenous People
- When Scientists “Discover” What Indigenous People Have Known For Centuries
- Traditional ways of knowing
- Caribou Patrol
- Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
- It’s taken thousands of years, but Western science is finally catching up to Traditional Knowledge
- Weaving Indigenous knowledge systems and Western sciences in terrestrial research, monitoring and management in Canada: A protocol for a systematic map
- Conflicts between traditional knowledge systems and Western science
- TEK vs Western Science
- Truth Before Reconciliation: Canada Needs to Hear Indigenous Stories
- Before reconciliation is possible, Canadians must admit the truth
- Truth Comes Before Reconciliation
- Traditional Knowledge - Coastal First Nations
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- The Push to Conserve 30 Percent of the Planet: What's at Stake?
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- The Rio Conventions
- UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)
- Everything you need to know about COP15 in Montreal
- Aichi Targets
- "30-by-30": Key takeaways from the COP15 biodiversity summit
- Toward a 2030 Biodiversity Strategy for Canada: Halting and reversing nature loss
- Convention on Biological Diversity, key international instrument for sustainable development
- How to meet the ambitious target of conserving 30 per cent of Earth by 2030
- As nature talks unfold, here’s what ’30 by 30′ conservation could mean in Canada
- COP15: historic global deal for nature and people
- Conserving 30% of land reduces extinction risk of species
- Canada made big promises at COP15. Will it follow through?
- Canada helps lead the world to agreement on the monumental Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework
- Historic biodiversity agreement reached at Montreal COP15
- The US touts support for biodiversity – but at Cop15, it remains on the sidelines
- Canada rallies for support on landmark biodiversity deal as COP15 gets underway
- A Win for Wildlife: The COP-15 Global Biodiversity Framework
- Canada, host of the UN biodiversity summit, is struggling to meet its own targets
- COP 15: Crunch time for the world's biodiversity
- United Nations Treaty Collection
- International treaties have mostly failed to produce their intended effects
- International treaties mostly don't work: Canadian study
- COP15 biodiversity summit in Montréal: Canada failed to meet its 2020 conservation targets. Will 2030 be any better?
- The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
- How new laws and regulations are created
- Registry of Lobbyists
- Justice Law Website
- Right to Life, Liberty and Security of the Person
- Mobility Rights
- Writing the Policy
- Legislative Process
- Elections Canada
- Why door knocking works: the 'terrifying' art of political canvassing
- The art of political persuasion
- Apathy is Boring
- Contemporary Canadian Govt. & Politics: Getting Involved in Government and Politics
- Youth Council Toolkit
- Prime Minister's Youth Council
- Lethbridge MP seeking new members for Youth Advisory Board
- Youth advisory council application
- Youth Advisory Committee
- Forward. For Young Canadians.
- Toronto Youth Cabinet
- Youth Advisory Council (YAC)
- Councillor? Alderman? Alderbroad? Calgary to choose
- Current Members of Parliament
- Civic Leadership
- The political ‘policy’ convention: what it is, what it isn’t, and what we should be paying attention to
- Compare the party platforms on these top election issues
- Political participation in Canada
- The Social and Civic Sources of Voting and Participation
- Are Canadian Political Parties Empty Vessels?
- Canadians Speak Out on Barriers to Political Participation
- Political Parties and Leaders
- Political parties - all of them - are failing to connect with Canadians
- Why partisans are responsible for the mess Canada has made of the pandemic
- Canadian Political Parties
- A Light in the Window: Ending Apartheid in South Africa
- Young Liberals' slogan a hot-button issue
- 6 kids, 6 parties: Why these kids are election volunteers
- Youth-Led Social Change: Topics, Engagement Types, Organizational Types, Strategies, and Impacts
- Alberta Liberal: Environment
- Western Canada High School
- Michael Davis
- Developing a Briefing Paper
- Peer Review at Science Journals
- Write to your MP! Ukraine needs Canada's help NOW!
- Meeting with your MP: Advocacy toolkit
- Contact your Member of Parliament (MP) — It’s the most direct way to be heard
- Call your MP.
- Why writing a letter to your MP matters
- Current Members of Parliament - House of Commons
- Petitions
- Change.org
- These were the most-signed e-petitions sent to the Trudeau government
- Why petitions are (almost always) a staggering waste of time
- Harvey Locke
- Nature Needs Half
- Yellowstone to Yukon
- Researchers: ‘Yellowstone to Yukon’ Work Boosts Conservation
- Y2Y vision contributes to 80 per cent increase in protected areas
- Linking protected areas from Yellowstone to the Yukon shows the value of conserving large landscapes, not just isolated parks and preserves
- Case Study: Ecological corridors in ecological networks
- If we want a whole Earth, Nature Needs Half
- Saving 'half of Earth' to save humanity
- The plan to turn half the world into a reserve for nature
- Scaling – from “reaching many” to sustainable systems change at scale: A critical shift in mindset
- Half the world must be set aside for nature, says Canadian conservationist
- Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?
- Carbon Capture And Storage (CCS)
- Salvation or Pipe Dream? A Movement Grows to Protect Up to Half the Planet
- “Half Earth” conservation could affect over a billion people
- To Conserve Nature in the Anthropocene, Half Earth Is Not Nearly Enough
- Half-Earth: A biodiversity 'solution' that solves nothing
- Saving Half the Planet for Nature Isn't As Crazy As It Seems
- Ecological corridors
- COP15 ends with landmark biodiversity agreement
- Will protecting half the Earth save biodiversity? Depends which half
- Situating the Half-Earth proposal in distributive justice
- s protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?
- Global climate protests demand world leaders phase out fossil fuels
- Thousands turn out for Vancouver climate march
- What you need to know about the Wet'suwet'en protests, arrests
- 'Freedom Convoy' protest voted news story of the year
- The Profound Value of Market Values
- The invisible hand: A concept that explains hidden economic forces in the market
- Voting with Your Wallet Is the Ultimate Consumer Power
- Corporations Can Change The World For The Better; Here’s How We Can Help
- How Big Business Is Driving Social Change
- Consumers Should Be Voting Every Day—with Their Wallets
- Recent Study Reveals More Than a Third of Global Consumers Are Willing to Pay More for Sustainability as Demand Grows for Environmentally-Friendly Alternatives
- How capitalism can be a force for greater good
- Mistrust of institutions correlates with gap in financial literacy – now is the time for change
- Is Big Business Really That Bad?
- Is Corporate Change Really Possible?
- Corporations Are People Too
- By popular demand: Companies that changed their ways
- The push and pull: Consumer demand driving ESG reforms in business
- Corporations are and should be people
- Corporations Can Change The World For The Better
- Canada's sleaziest corporate scandal
- Planet Earth's Future Now Rests in the Hands of Big Business
- Change Isn't Easy
- Hal Kvisle
- The rise of the eco-friendly consumer
- Sustainability in business: Staying ahead of the curve
- Business is using COP15 to show it's serious about saving nature; environmentalists aren't so sure
- Seeing green: Can corporations find allies among environmentalists?
- How to Talk to the Other Side: Environmentalists vs. Wall Street
- Why we should embrace big business
- Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
- Why relying on new technology won't save the planet
- How digital technology and innovation can help protect the planet
- Technology As Our Planet's Last Best Hope
- The Scientific Method: A Need for Something Better?
- Practices of Science: Scientific Error
- Sometimes Science Is Wrong
- How Scientific Illiteracy is Causing Society to Fail
- Canadians are confused about science vs. opinion, poll suggests
- The relationship between science and society under the microscope
- The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science
- The Science of What Makes People Care
- Why Making Mistakes Is What Makes Us Human
- To fail is to be human.
- Canada needs a new relationship with science and innovation that reflects our time
- Canada is not immune to its own scientific dark ages
- 'Stick to the science': when science gets political
- Almost half of Canadians think science is a "matter of opinion"
- Democracy in decline worldwide, new report says
- Israel-Hamas War
- The Niger Coup's Outsized Global Impact
- 'A Crisis Coming': The Twin Threats to American Democracy
- Yemen's Tragedy: War, Stalemate, and Suffering
- DR Congo: An unprecedented crisis goes ignore
- Canadian MPs across the spectrum see threats to democracy: ‘There’s no common middle ground’
- Canada can't be complacent about threats to our democracy
- How Canada advances democracy in the world
- Promoting Democracy and Human Rights: Lessons of the 1990s
- Democracy - the United Nations
- Democracy Building: A Cultural Challenge
- Canadians should pay attention to the democratic crisis in America
- Canada is a great democracy. But you need to understand it.
- Democracy is under attack everywhere – including in Canada. But what do we mean by democracy?
- What is the Rule of Law - and why does it matter?
- Violence in Political History: The Challenges of Teaching About the Politics of Power and Resistance
- War and Violence in the Ancient World
- Canada's democracy is growing stronger as world weakens
- Character assault. Contempt. This week showed us the ugly, sneering face of Canadian politics
- Want kids to behave? Don't take them to question period
- Data Dive with Nik Nanos: Canadians are losing faith in the country’s most vital institutions
- Canadians frustrated by state of democracy, study says
- Mapped: The World's Legal Government Systems
- Maggie MacDonald
- Opinion: 67% agree Canada is broken — and here's why
- Why Perfection Is The Enemy Of Done
- Democracies in Decline
- Poll shows many Canadians disconnected from democracy, vulnerable to populism
- The environment is Canada's biggest wedge issue
- Extinction crisis threatens humanity
- 'Massive failure': The world has missed all its biodiversity targets
- Many Across the Globe Are Dissatisfied With How Democracy Is Working
- Canada has devolved into a childish country incapable of solving big problems
- This Is How Democracy Dies
- Donna Kennedy Glans
- Comforting ourselves to death
- Canadians are struggling. We need less talk, more action
- The Power of Citizen Diplomacy
- Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- Peer Review Process
- Canadian's Nobel Prize in Physics highlights why basic science matters
- Let's reflect on the gift of democracy before it's too late
- Be thankful for the gift of democracy
- How Hitler Transformed a Democracy Into a Tyranny
- TIMELINE | Same-sex rights in Canada
- World politics explainer: the end of Apartheid
- What modern campaigners can learn from the fight for women’s suffrage
- Biodiversity loss raises risk of 'extinction cascades'
- Stop biodiversity loss or we could face our own extinction, warns UN
- Cathedral Thinking
