I am an interdisciplinary researcher focused on systems that improve urban environments’ climate change resiliency. I am currently working with Dr. Dorea and the Public Health & Environmental Engineering (PH2E) group, with a focus on faecal sludge drying rates for application to a humanitarian emergency toilet. Previously I was engaged in economic, geographic, and public health analyses of SOIL’s household sanitation service for urban Haiti.

When we lost our connection to the hinterlands

The analysis of urban metabolism and declining environmental health

January 29, 2019

How to mitigate climate change – and climate change anxiety

Bob Sandford and Mary Oliver say: “Pay attention”

January 22, 2019

Talking sustainable cities

Form and function and can we do it ecologically?

January 15, 2019

Chinese firm to open (excreta-based) fertilizer plant in Uganda

Is there a market for excreta-based compost in East Africa?

December 12, 2018

Ecological sanitation’s impact on the geospatial distribution of nitrogen for agriculture

Food security and equity and more?

December 7, 2018

Ecological sanitation and the nitrogen cycle

A solution to everything?

December 1, 2018

One Planet Living

Sustainability Seminar with Cora Hallsworth

November 22, 2018

Material use in modern society

Complexity, exquisite design,...and fragility

November 13, 2018

Infrastructure development and carbon emissions

The default trajectory just won't work

November 6, 2018

Integrated water management

Balancing human water security and biodiversity integrity

October 30, 2018

Economic growth is already a thing of the past

Research into Energy Return on Investment (EROI) and the U.S. economy

October 25, 2018

No decoupling, only displacement

The use of global multi-region output-input analysis to understand international trade footprints

October 15, 2018

Stewarding the environment: is it self-serving?

Ecosystem services and modern food practices

October 9, 2018

Tools of industrial metabolism

The problem with approaching circular economy as an industrial ecologist

October 3, 2018

Tools of industrial metabolism

Introduction to material flow analysis

September 25, 2018

Technological resignation and the IPAT equation

A thought model that got too narrow

September 20, 2018

Planetary boundaries

Yet another unhelpful human construct?

September 13, 2018

Introduction to industrial metabolism

Pros and cons of the approach

September 6, 2018

Decentralized water demand management technology for urban water management

Let's get radical

August 20, 2018

Why does place matter?

And what does sanitation have to do with it?

August 15, 2018

Where does your water come from?

Sooke Lake Watershed & Reservoir Field Trip

May 6, 2018

Urban Ecological Infrastructure & Design

Composting Toilets at the University of Victoria?

April 23, 2018