<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#009936">Greenspiration </font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#a60724">News</font></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">"And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it."</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">- President Obama, 9/6/12</span></font></div><div><i><em style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></em></i></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">"The future is now. And it is hot." – <a href="http://wapo.st/OGr14m">Dr. James E. Hansen</a>, NASA Climate Scientist <br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#810097"><b>Activism</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://tv.naturalnews.com/v.asp?v=A8D97B0FFE5382DB229DF5A4BD629150"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#810097" size="4">Julian Assange speech at the Ecuadorian embassy</font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">10 min. video </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#810097" size="4"><a href="http://freepussyriot.org/news">Free Pussy Riot!</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Also catch this profound 1 min. </span><span style="font-size: 13px; "><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bditPt0PtA%20">video</a> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://rabble.ca/books/reviews/2012/08/beautiful-trouble-toolbox-revolution"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#810097">Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution</font></a><b style="font-size: 13px; "> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">is a unique guide on how to take on powerful adversaries to win.</span><br></font></div><div><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; line-height: 12pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">On August 27, </span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#810097"><a href="http://goto.rabble.ca/t?r=1530&c=913951&l=36229&ctl=16B8A55:D091DF809B4264D184AB6E7E6FACF4D860A0614370F1CFFE&" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; ">KI Nation paddlers</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">began a journey by canoe to Hudson's Bay, to protect KI water. Along the way, they are documenting and promoting this wild watershed and the deep connection the community has to their life-giving river. You can follow the journey </span><span style="font-size: 13px; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); "><a href="http://goto.rabble.ca/t?r=1530&c=913951&l=36229&ctl=16B8A56:D091DF809B4264D184AB6E7E6FACF4D860A0614370F1CFFE&" target="_blank" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">her</a>e.</span></font></p></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#007895"><b>Cities</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><div><a href="http://www.shareable.net/blog/can-we-design-cities-for-happiness%20%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#007895">Can We Design Cities for Happiness?</font></a></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.care2.com/causes/bikes-can-save-us-infographic.html"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895">Bikes Can Save Us</font></a><b style="font-size: 13px; "> </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Infographic</span><br><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://completestreetsforcanada.ca/%20"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895">Complete Streets Hub</font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> Case studies, policy expertise, news, and latest research</span><br><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/world/europe/in-denmark-pedaling-to-work-on-a-superhighway.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all%20">Commuters Pedal to Work on Their Very Own Superhighway</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Already one third of trips in Copenhagen are made by bike, and that will only increase as more car-free super bike highways are built.That city is committed to being carbon neutral by 2025. Why can't we do that here? Because we like congestion and smog and climate change? </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895"><a href="http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/07/the-bicycle-revolution-in-paris-five-years-later/%0A">The Bicycle Revolution in Paris, Five Years Later </a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">In total, the number of bicycles in Paris has increased 41 percent since 2007. During the same period, motor vehicle traffic has decreased by 25 percent. One of his first measures was the creation of traffic lanes for exclusive use by buses in almost the entire city, in order to speed up their circulation and reduce the space available for use by private automobiles. On the weekends, motor vehicle traffic is prohibited on the most emblematic streets of Paris.</span><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/story/156385/the_great_resurgence_of_public_spaces?page=1%0A">The Great Resurgence of Public Spaces</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Here's why we need parks, streetlife, squares, markets, trails, community gardens and other hang outs more than ever.</span><br></font></div></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895"><a href="http://www.nationaltransitstrategy.ca/">National Transit Strategy</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> MP Olivia Chow is proposing a Bill C-305. Canada is the only G8 country without a national transit strategy.</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#007895"><a href="http://www.vtpi.org/whoserd.pdf">Whose Roads? Evaluating Bicyclists' and Pedestrians' Right to Use Public Roadways</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Most funding for local roads (the roads the pedestrians and cyclists use most) is from general taxes, which people pay regardless of how they travel. Since bicycling and walking impose lower roadway costs than motorized modes, people who rely on non-motorized modes tend to overpay their fair share of roadway costs and subsidize motorists. </span><br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#00971c">Food and Drugs</font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#00971c"><a href="http://californiawatch.org/environment/hidden-costs-hamburgers-17393%20">The hidden costs of hamburgers</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Fantastic 8 min. video </span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#00971c"><a href="http://www.relishyomama.org/index.htm">Relish Yo’ Mama</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">A series of how-to videos and info on canning and preserving food</span><br><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#00971c"><a href="http://bit.ly/QYpbiq">Revolutionary Plots</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Urban agriculture: upscale fetish or revolution in the making? It depends in part on what you hope to cultivate. </span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://bit.ly/MB7wIl"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#00971c">The Elephant in the Room: Rampage Shootings, Bizarre Violence and Prescription Drugs</font></a></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"> </font></o:p></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#c87a00" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5"><b>Climate and Capitalism</b></font></div><div><b style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br></font></b></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#c87a00"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmfcJP_0eMc">Weathergirl goes rogue</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">3 min. video – VERY funny and true</span></div></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#c87a00"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5nNbPWYHOA%20%20">How to Deal With Climate Change Deniers</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">1 min. video - hahaha</span></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Feds+walk+away+from+environmental+assessments+almost+projects/7125419/story.html#ixzz24I71kUcY%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#c87a00">Feds walk away from environmental assessments on almost 500 projects in B.C.</font></a><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrROgJpNJH0"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#c87a00">Keystone XL Pipeline just keeps coming back, like an ex-boyfriend who won’t get the hint.</font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> 1 min. video. Ha. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#c87a00"><a href="http://bit.ly/M9M0dB">Coca-Cola to be booted out of Bolivia</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Coca-Cola, one of the planet's giant corporations, is to be unceremoniously booted out of Bolivia. The announcement was made by Bolivian Minister of External Affairs, David Choquehuanca, who stated that the date chosen, December 21, coincides with the end of the cycle in the Mayan Calendar, the end of capitalism and the start of a culture of life. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#c87a00"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YqU9lr9G-0">Under Occupation: Toronto G20 Operation</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Full movie</span><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><br><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financevideo/7198790/Bill-Nighy-stars-in-Robin-Hood-tax-advert.html%20"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#c87a00">Robin Hood tax advert </font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> 2 min. video. A Robin Hood Tax on banks’ financial transactions could raise hundreds of billions of pounds to fight poverty, protect public services and tackle climate change, according to a campaign launched by an unprecedented coalition of domestic charities, aid agencies, unions, faith organisations and green groups. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><br></span></font></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#c87a00"><a href="http://www.cwhn.ca/en/webinar/endocrinesandautomotiveplastics">Endocrine Disruptors in the Workplace: Women, Plastics and Breast Cancer</a> </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">Webinar, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">Wed. 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