Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
Canisius College, Buffalo, New York
Edward J. Garrity
Professor of Marketing & Information Systems
Phone: (716) 888-2267, Fax: (716) 888-2525, mail to: garrity@canisius.edu.
This website is designed for: (1) current students and (2) prospective students. Current students can find links to course syllabi, D2L software, and special topics. Prospective students can get a feel for IS topics, research or teaching areas.
Teaching Information: Desire2Learn
Spring 2023
Fall 2022,
Spring 2022
Fall 2021,
Spring 2021,
Fall 2020,
Spring 2020,
Fall 2019,
Spring 2019,
Fall 2018,
Fall 2017,
Spring 2017,
Fall 2016,
Spring 2016, Fall 2015, Spring 2015
Sustainability and Climate Change Teaching
Global Climate Change and Sustainability
Global Climate Change: This report is so important it must be listed here
My Executive Summary: National Climate Plans are inadequate to meet the Paris Agreement. WRI’s State of NDCs finds that national climate plans will reduce global emissions 7% below 2019 levels by 2030, when achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement requires that emissions drop 43%. The current NDCs call for priority adaptation actions, but only 39% of the countries include time frames for action and only 13% list targets or indicators. My overall comment: we need a paradigm shift from a sole focus on national competition to modified competition with global cooperation.
Global Climate Change: How politics affects our ability to have a decent future, especially for young adults less than 50 yrs oldTopics: Systems Thinking & System Dynamics. The Elephant in the Room
Penn 1.5C minute talks on Climate Change, really 1.5 degrees
Climate Change Dialogue, Yale University Director
Sustainability Global Climate Change
Business Schools with a Sense of Purpose, The Greater Good: Climate Change across the political spectrum: gamingUnsustainable consumption coupled with the already record size of the human population and the uses of inappropriate technologies are causally linked with the destruction of the world’s sustainability and resilience and the loss of millions of species of the organisms on which we depend directly for life, as well as the widening inequalities of wealth and income in many societies. - Pope Francis
the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 10th item from the link below:
All stakeholders, including governments, business, and civil society, should promote the education of today’s young people in the sciences and ethical values of integral human development and sustainable development. All educational institutions should strive to update their curricula and teaching programs to educate young people in these great challenges.
COP22 Final Statement, Vatican
The good news is that such transformative change, with social and ecological justice, promises greater human wellbeing in the long-run than business as usual.
We believe that prospects will be greatest if policy makers and the rest of humanity promptly respond to our warning and declaration of a climate emergency,
and act to sustain life on planet Earth, our only home.
The above statement from the latest Warning to Humanity from Scientists from around the world
Science Communication on Climate Change and the Science of Communication of Climate Change
Yale University Climate Communication site
Science Denial
Science as objective support for policy
Universities have not addressed how we can transform economy and society fast enough to achieve Climate Goals:
A Researcher's View, graphic is from Nature journal
See Three years to safeguare our climate
An alternative view: Trump's View
Wehle School of Business, Sustainability Definition: Wehle School of Business View
Global Movement Organization, Sustainability:Global Movement, Business Education
World Resources Institute, likelihood to meet climate targets if we go all inWorld Resources Institute: Going all in, what will it take to make goals?
https://www.wri.org/insights/all-society-strategy-accelerate-us-climate-action
Educational Technology Problems!
Computer Gaming (Decision Support Systems, Management Flight Simulators)
Other: Information Systems Alumni (Former Students , in Information Systems, Join the list, send me email)
Sanders Blog on Innovation, Prototyping, Entrepreneurship&
http://glsanders.com/
Service and Other:
Canisius Homepage
Past Semesters: Department Syllabi here Information Literacy
Personal Interests Outlook Mail
Research Information:
http://www.wikipedia.org/ IRMA
Decision Sciences Systems Journal, Special Issue on Systems Thinking
Publications & Professional Service.
Recent Research: Transforming Business Education It`s about Time: A Systems Perspective on Incorporating Climate Change, Sustainability, and the Care for Our Common Future Recent Research: Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ), Rebuilding Fisheries and Short-termism: How Biased Reasoning Impacts Management Recent Research: Book Chapter on: Using Systems Thinking to Understand and Enlarge Mental Models: Helping the Transition to a Sustainable WorldRecent Research: Tragedy of the Commons, Business Growth and the Fundamental Sustainability Problem
Recent Research: Ocean Fisheries Management & System Dynamics
Validated Information Systems Instruments
Climate Interactive Scoreboards
