uOttawa heat map art. Monday July 22nd might have been a wholly unmarkable day for you. It was a fairly hot day in a fairly hot month, which of course has been part of a fairly hot summer. If you live in this little part of the world, you might have noticed a lack of rain and a hint of smoke in the air from the forest fires in central and western Canada. What you might not have known was that the record for the hottest recorded in human history was being set. Many news outlets reported on the record breaking temperature  but it didn't get much coverage (the world has a lot of complicated things happening right now). I think this kind of information tends to make people's eyes glaze over. "Oh yes, yet another time we broke the record for the hottest day..." It seems to happen so often that people have become numb to the news.  This is problematic because the increase in temperature has a bunch of very serious and dangerous impacts to the natural environment and to peop...

Hey! What do you do with your cardboard toilet paper roll when you are done with them? Toss them out? Recycle them? Transform them into recycled artwork? Well if you wouldn't mind, we would like you to collect them and bring then to us. This year the Office of Campus Sustainability is looking to create some new programs that we hope will get people involved in changing the story about sustainability. The pandemic has been a very strange time for everyone trying to create engaging activities on campus. Reimagining events so that people comply with COVID regulations isn't as easy as one might think. Our office has struggled to figure out how to make our events "worth" the in-person experience. But this year we are going to work harder to find activities that let people get involved in making a more sustainable campus while learning about living a more sustainable lifestyle. So we are asking people on campus to collect their cardboard toilet paper tubes and bring them to...