<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>THE GREEN ECONOMY: Beyond Vinyl - Green Production Fo</title></head><body> <blockquote type="cite" cite>To: "tooker@web.ca" <tooker@web.ca></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: THE GREEN ECONOMY:  Beyond Vinyl - Green Production For Healthy World BEYOND VINYL: GREEN PRODUCTION FOR HEALTHY WORLD An update on the dangers of PVC, and on possibilities for Clean Production and Green Development Thursday, March 6, 7-10 pm OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor St. W. free admission Featuring: Beverley Thorpe, Clean Production Action Rich Whate, Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA) Nick DeCarlo, Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Dorothy Golden-Rosenberg, Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN) At the core of industrial-capitalist brown industry is petrochemical industry based in organochlorines. The single most destructive chemical of this destructive complex is polyvinyl choride (PVC), or "vinyl". Called the "Watergate of chemicals", PVC causes great damage to the environment and human health at every stage of its life cycle. Although this material is now found everywhere in the modern economy---flooring, siding, automobiles, children's toys---the industry has grown by taking over existing markets previously served by safer materials. Its market dominance has depended on its dirt-cheap market price, but its real costs have taken a massive toll on people and the environment. A growing movement worldwide is calling for its phase- out in favour of clean production and new benign materials. The evening will not only serve as an introduction to the PVC issue and the role of chlorine in the petrochemical industry, but provide an overview of "the next industrial revolution" of green manufacturing based in closed-loop industrial ecosystems, benign materials and human- centred development. Featured speaker of the evening is Beverley Thorpe, founder of Clean Production Action, formerly toxics coordinator for Greenpeace International in Europe. She is the author of the Citizen's Guide to Clean Production. Beverley will be joined by local experts: Rich Whate, toxics campaigner for TEA; Nick DeCarlo, CAW environment specialist; and Dorothy Golden-Rosenberg, of Women's Healthy Environments Network. Other groups involved with community health, the environment, clean production and workplace health and safety will also be on hand. The event inaugurates a month of educational activities leading up to the Canadian media premier of the award- winning documentary Blue Vinyl: A Toxic Comedy, on CBC Newsworld's The Passionate Eye, Sunday March 30. The March 6 event is co-sponsored by Labour Council Environmental Forum, the Ontario Workers Health & Safety Centre, Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN), Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA), the Coalition for a Green Economy, the Labour and Waste Caucuses of the Ontario Environment Network, Clean Production Action, Great Lakes United, Grassroots Environmental Products, and the OISE/UT Transformative Learning Centre. For more information, check out <a href="http://www.greeneconomics.net/pvc.htm">http://www.greeneconomics.net/pvc.htm</a> or contact: Loretta Michaud at <a href="mailto:loretta.michaud@rogers.com">loretta.michaud@rogers.com</a> or Linda Sepp at <a href="mailto:bluevinyltoronto@hotmail.com">bluevinyltoronto@hotmail.com</a> For more event information go to the <a href="http://www.grassrootsstore.com/upcoming-events.html">Grassroots Website</a>. </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> <hr></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>To Unsubscribe from this mailing list please cut and paste the following link into your browser: http://launchbox-emailservices.ca/mail/members.asp?Task=OptOut&SubscriberID=10941&Email=tooker%40web%2Eca&S=9</blockquote > <blockquote type="cite" cite><img src= "http://launchbox-emailservices.ca/mail/t.asp?S=9&ID=72&NL=17&N=46&Imp=True&SubscriberID=10941"></blockquote> <div> </div> <div> </div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ there's more than one way to stop a war: 101 Ways to Stop the War on Iraq http://www.earthfuture.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOtv: Revolutionary Television! http://www.TOtv.ca ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Stories of ecologicy and activism: http://www.greenspiration.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</div> </body> </html>