[getsmart-l] FW: TGC AGM & Speaker Series - Apr 21 & Little Green Book Launch Party - Apr 17

[Janet May]

Upcoming Toronto Green Community events

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From: TGC News [mailto:info at ntgc.ca] 
Sent: April 9, 2008 5:09 PM
To: janet at smartgrowth.on.ca
Subject: TGC AGM & Speaker Series - Apr 21 & Little Green Book Launch Party
- Apr 17


On Monday, April 21st 
The Toronto Green Community will hold its Annual General Meeting (5:30 -
6:30 pm) 
followed by a special evening discussion about the future of water in
Toronto. 
Four contributors to Coach House Books' GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable
Toronto look at water in the city -- its ravine system, changing water
bodies and creeks -- and discuss ideas for improving Toronto's water future.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Chris Hilkene, president of the
Clean Water Foundation. We hope you can make it out!

MONDAY, APRIL 21 - GREENTOPIA, BLUETOPIA

GreenTOpia, BlueTOpia
The Future of Water in Toronto
with Eduardo Sousa, Chris Hardwicke, Wayne Reeves and Andrew McCammon
moderated by Clean Water Foundation

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Avenue West
(2 lights west of Yonge Street)
Free. All are welcome.

RSVP: info at torontogreen.ca

About GreenTOpia:

More trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar
panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city
parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City.

What would make Toronto a greener place?

In the third volume in the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians
think big and small about sustainability. From suggestions for changes to
our transit system to a tongue-in-cheek proposal for a painted line around
the city, GreenTOpia challenges the city and its residents to rethink what
it means to be green in a metropolis, and how to take their love of the city
one green step further. GreenTOpia features photos, maps and a 56-page green
directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs promoting
sustainability in the GTA.

About the participants:

Chris Hardwicke is the director of urbanism at Sweeny Sterling Finlayson &
Co. Architects. Chris's visionary projects have been published
internationally, and include Velo-City, a proposed bicycle highway, and Farm
City, a project that integrates farming into dense housing, as well as
Ravine City.

Andrew McCammon is the founding chair of the Taylor Massey Project.

Wayne Reeves, while wearing the official title of Program Standards and
Development Officer, is probably the only historical geographer employed by
the City of Toronto's Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division. He has at
least a toe in many of the waterfront park projects underway across the
city.

Eduardo Sousa is the regional organizer for the Council of Canadians for
Ontario-Quebec-Nunavut.  He has a Master's Degree in Environmental Studies
from York University, where he focused on watershed education and planning
how to interweave community development and restoring urban streams,
especially buried ones.

Christopher Hilkene is the president of the Clean Water Foundation. He is
also a member of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy
and teaches a course on water policy at York University's Faculty of
Environmental Studies.

www.torontogreen.ca
info at torontogreen.ca
416-781-7663

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Join us at a fun-filled evening celebrating all that's green and local in
Toronto...

It's Easy To Be Green! - 

*****EARTH DAY EVENT & LAUNCH PARTY FOR THE LITTLE GREEN BOOK OF BIG SAVINGS
******

Come eat, learn new ways to reduce your footprint, win eco-products, help
raise money for environmental organizations, be entertained, 
recycle used batteries, and more!  

Connect and network with people who want to learn green alternatives and
people who provide local solutions that make a difference 
to our environment.

When. Thursday April 17th, 6pm - 1am 
Where. Toronto Sprouts - 720 Bathurst St. (just South of Bloor)
Cost. Free/By donation.  

A portion of the event's proceeds will support Green Enterprise Toronto, The
Conservation Council of Ontario and Toronto Green Community.

Brief speaker presentation at 8pm from City Councillor Glenn DeBaeremaeker
and The Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, Gord Miller.

This event is brought to you by The Little Green Book of Big Savings,
Toronto's coupon book, directory and guide for green and healthy living.
During the past year, Allison Greenbaum created this book as her way of
helping her community save money and live sustainably.  

If you would like to showcase your business by contributing food and raffle
prizes, contact Allison at (416) 627-1985 or allison at TheLittleGreenBook.ca 

For more information visit TheLittleGreenBook.ca


The following physical address is associated with this mailing list: 

Toronto Green Community

40 Orchard View Blvd, Suite 252

Toronto. ON. M4R 1B9