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[Janet May]

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Subject: TORONTO GREEN COMMUNITY EMAIL NEWSLETTER – NOVEMBER 2007
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Date:    Mon, November 5, 2007 2:36 pm
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TORONTO GREEN COMMUNITY EMAIL NEWSLETTER – NOVEMBER 2007

JOIN US FOR Toronto Green Community's 3rd Annual Green Tie Fundraising
Gala – Tues Nov 27 and other events

TGC EVENTS

*****3RD ANNUAL GREEN TIE FUNDRAISING GALA – TUES NOV 27*******

Garden Workshop – Cold Framing and Season Extension – Wed Nov 14
Lost River Walk – Sun Nov 18
Speaker Series – Greener Gifting - Mon Nov 26

Is Global Warming leaving you Hot and Bothered in Lawrence Heights?
Thurs Nov 8
Wed Nov 14
Sat Nov 17

Is Global Warming leaving you Hot and Bothered at Yonge & Lawrence?
Tues Nov 13
Wed Nov 21

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Energy Project –Community Profile Researcher
Energy and other Projects - Postering
Speaker Series – Mon Nov 26
Eco Gift wrapping in December

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS’ EVENTS:

Green Neighbours 21- Convenient Solutions For An Inconvenient Truth
Spirit Of Red Hill Valley 3rd Annual Lecture - Post Carbon Cities -
Planning For Climate And Energy Uncertainty
NANPS - "Natural By Design" An Interactive Workshop On Native Plant
Gardening
St. Lawrence Centre Forum And Toronto Public Health present The Politics
Of Food
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TORONTO GREEN COMMUNITY EVENTS

It’s time for our 3RD ANNUAL GREEN TIE CELEBRATION & FUNDRAISING EVENT to
help support our programs


Tuesday November 27 - 7:00 – 10:30 pm
Alleycatz Restaurant – 2409 Yonge Street (north of Eglinton, on the east
side of Yonge)
Tickets are $50

The evening will include live music, an eco fashion show, a slide show of
TGC’s work, a special presentation by comedian Marc Brown, vegetarian hors
d’oeuvres, a very special “green” silent auction and a “green”
marketplace.  The silent auction and marketplace are a great opportunity
to buy eco-friendly holiday gifts and support a great organization at the
same time.
Special Guest: Gord Miller, Toronto’s Environmental Commissioner.

For more information or to order tickets, call 416-781-7663 or e-mail
info at torontogreen.ca.

Support programs that help make Toronto a cleaner and greener City.

GARDEN WORKSHOP – COLD FRAMING AND SEASON EXTENSION WORKSHOP
With Kyla Dixon-Muir of Riverdale Meadow

Wed Nov 14, 2007 – 6:00 – 7:30 pm
At the Eglinton Park Heritage Community Garden behind the North Toronto
Memorial Community Centre – 200 Eglinton Avenue East, Common Room
Free workshop!

Come and learn about:
-	How can you extend your gardening season and harvest through the
winter?
-	What are cold frames? What are low cost methods of building them?
-	How can you get a head start on next year by incorporating raised
beds
into your garden?

SPEAKER SERIES: GIFTING GREENER
With Joanne Fleming-Valin of Environmental Insights

“A Garbage Gift is something you don’t need, don’t want, don’t like,
doesn’t fit, doesn’t match.” Have you ever received a “Garbage Gift?” 
Greener gifts are those that are wanted, often made with local materials
with no excess packaging and that you can afford.

With high energy, humour and fun, JoAnne Fleming Valin offers scores of
holiday gift ideas that are meaningful and don’t cost the earth. Her
creative gift wrap ideas will intrigue you, too.

When: Monday November 26, 2007 - 6:30-8:00pm
Where: 40 Orchard View Blvd, Room 224 (one street north of Eglinton, just
west of Yonge)

Light refreshments served
RSVP at  info at torontogreen.ca or 416-781-7663
$5

LOST RIVER WALKS

Sunday November 18. 2007, 2 p.m. A Walk to Celebrate World Fisheries Day.
Starting at Pottery Road and Broadview Avenue. Visit weirs on the Don
River and discuss the impact of the environment on fisheries. Leaders
Christine Tu, TRCA and Ed Freeman.  www.lostrivers.ca

COMMUNITY ENERGY PROJECT

IS GLOBAL WARMING LEAVING YOU HOT AND BOTHERED? THEN TAKE ACTION ON GLOBAL
WARMING AND HIGH ENERGY COSTS

Join TGC in launching its new Community Energy Action Plan, an exciting
project that will work with residents in two Toronto neighbourhoods to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions, save money and increase comfort through
energy conservation.  Come learn more about the project and HOW YOU CAN BE
INVOLVED;

IN LAWRENCE HEIGHTS:

Thurs Nov 8, 7:00 pm - Yorkdale Community Arts  Centre, Yorkdale Mall
Wed Nov 14, 7:30 pm – Lawrence Heights Community Centre, 5 Replin Road
(Lawrence & Allen Rd)
Sat Nov 17, 2:00 pm - Lawrence Heights Community Centre, 5 Replin Road
(Lawrence & Allen Rd)

AT LAWRENCE AND YONGE:

Tues Nov 13, 7:30 pm – Fairlawn Neighbourhood Centre, Birch Room – 28
Fairlawn Avenue
Wed Nov 21, 7:00 pm – Glenview Presbyterian Church, 1 Glenview Avenue

Refreshments will be served at all events.
Come and enter to win a prize!
RSVP: energy at torontogreen.ca or call 416-781-7663
For more information: www.torontogreen.ca

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

ENERGY PROJECT
COMMUNITY PROFILES RESEARCHER

The Toronto Green Community  (TGC) is working on an exciting community
energy conservation project to encourage residents to learn more about
energy conservation and reduce their CO2 emissions.

The project will be working with two different communities with differing
socio-economic profiles in (Lawrence Heights and Yonge & Lawrence areas).
We need volunteers to help us develop profiles of these neighbourhoods so
that we can tailor the project to the specific needs of each area. These
community profiles are to include information on:
-Community centres, libraries, meeting places, places of worship
-Local shops & businesses, green organizations
-Resident groups, community clubs & organizations
-Local events, community notice boards, community contacts
-Statistics on home ownership, low/high income areas, multi-unit
residences, single unit residences
-Demographic breakdowns (languages, ages, average income, etc.)

Much of this information can be found through internet/library research,
however volunteers should be prepared to visit the neighbourhoods as well
(e.g. to map locations of multi-unit residences, determine what shops &
business are on main streets, etc.)

ENERGY AND OTHER PROGRAMS
POSTERING

DO YOU ENJOY BEING OUTDOORS, WALKING, DISCOVERING NEW PLACES?  THEN YOU
MAY ENJOY HELPING US WITH POSTERING!

For our Energy project We’re looking for help postering for upcoming
events in the Lawrence Heights neighbourhood as well as in the Yonge and
Lawrence neighbourhood.  Please email energy at torontogreen.ca if you would
like to help.

For our other programs, we’d like help postering all over toronto.  if you
live in Toronto and have a community centre, a library, a faith centre and
perhaps some local stores that allow community posters and you’d like to
volunteer a few minutes a month, please give us a shout.  You would be
helping us tremendously to get the word out about our programming in your
neck of the woods
 many thanks in advance!  email us at
info at torontogreen.ca.

VOLUNTEERING AT THE SPEAKER SERIES – Mon Nov 26

Volunteers are needed to help set up for the Speaker Series, organize
refreshments, help with registration and help wrap up the Speaker series
on:
Mon Nov 26 from 5 – 9 pm.  If you can only volunteer for part of that, you
help is most welcome!

WRAPPING ECO GIFTS AT MEC IN DECEMBER

Each December, Toronto Green Community helps wraps gifts ecologically at
Mountain Equipment Coop.  This is a fun and exciting event, one of the
favourite events of the year for volunteers.  If you’re interested in
volunteering, please email giftwrapping at ntgc.ca


OTHER ORGANIZATIONS’ EVENTS

GREEN NEIGHBOURS 21
CONVENIENT SOLUTIONS FOR AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Come see a live presentation of An Inconvenient Truth and join with your
neighbours for a panel discussion on how we can all be part of the climate
change solution as individuals and as a community.

You will leave with your own personal action plan and information about
the resources that are available to help you get started.

Moderator:  Bob McDonald,  host of CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks
AIT Presenter:  Suzanne Senay,  a member of Al Gore’s Climate Project
Panelists:
  - Chris Winter,  Conservation Council of Ontario
  - Franz Hartmann,  Toronto Environmental Alliance
  - Greg Labbé,  Greensaver
  - David Godri, SWITCH (Solar & Wind Initiatives Toward Change)

Thursday, November 8th - 6:45 – 9:00 pm
Oakwood Collegiate Institute - 991 St. Clair Avenue West (Southwest corner
of Oakwood & St. Clair.  Enter from Oakwood)

greenneighbours at yahoo.ca
www.gn21.ca

SPIRIT OF RED HILL VALLEY 3RD ANNUAL LECTURE
POST CARBON CITIES - PLANNING FOR CLIMATE AND ENERGY UNCERTAINTY

Guest speaker: Daniel Lerch
Panelists: Mark Chamberlain, Mayor Eisenberger, Richard Gilbert, Sonja
Macdonald
Monday, November 12 - 7:30
First Unitarian Church, 170 Dundurn Street South, Hamilton

NANPS (North American Native Plant Society)
"NATURAL BY DESIGN" an interactive workshop on native plant gardening with
Dan Bissonnette.

Saturday November 17, 2007  9:30 am - 4:30 pm (NANPS members $30,
non-members $40)
"Downspouts and Native Plants.  Discover the Connection" 12-1 pm(free,
open to the public).

Please register by contacting nanps at nanps.org or calling 416-631-4438

ST. LAWRENCE CENTRE FORUM AND TORONTO PUBLIC HEALTH
THE POLITICS OF FOOD

Tuesday, November 20, 2007
7:00-7:30 pm  Displays in Lobby . 7:30-9:30 pm  Panel Discussion
Free Admission

St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts - 27 Front Street East, Toronto
2 blocks east of Union Station    capacity 500, first come, first seated
416-366-1656 . http://forum.stlc.com



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