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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(166, 61, 189); font-style: italic; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">Please join me to honor Tooker Gomberg on the 5th Anniversary of his passing:</span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#119F1E">If you're in Toronto:</font></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#A63DBD"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><br></span></font></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">1. </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3976" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3976">Monday, March 2nd</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3976" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3976">7 - 9 p.m.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3976" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3976">at Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway), Toronto</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#222cb8" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #222cb8">We will remember Tooker through his writings and his videos.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">2. </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3976" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3976">Wednesday, March 4th</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3976" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3976">Noon - meet at Christie Pits (the park at Bloor and Christie), Toronto</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3976" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3976">Together we will ride our bikes along Bloor to arrive at City Hall (Queen and Bay) at 12:30 p.m</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#222cb8" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #222cb8">.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#222cb8" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #222cb8">At City Hall we will unfurl the 100 ft. TaketheTooker bike lane, and then as a group we will submit to Mayor Miller the 5000 signatures on our petition for</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#c544cd" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #c544cd"> Bike Lanes on Bloor</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#222cb8" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #222cb8">. In the 3 years since we launched this campaign in Tooker's honor (Mar. 3, 2006), this issue has become the number one priority for cyclists in Toronto, although at the time we launched the campaign people thought we were crazy.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">3. If you haven't yet visited the </font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#3aa14d" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #3aa14d">Tooker Gomberg Memorial Librar</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">y, check it out. Here you will find</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#c544cd" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #c544cd"> 800 of Tooker's best books available for loan to the public</font><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">: housed at the Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina (at Queen), 4th floor, open during office hours, Toronto.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="5"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#7216B7"><br></font></i></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC0DA1"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">For those not able to attend the above events, below find some beautiful quotes of his</span></font></font></i></font><font face="Helvetica" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica"><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC0DA1"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;">.</span></font></font></i><i><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#AC0DA1"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="6"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20px;"> </span></font></font></i></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica">Read them and be inspired. And then do something with that inspiration, something that will change the world, in remembrance of him...</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#41a13d" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #41a13d">- Have hope, passion and confidence that valuable change can and does happen because individuals take bold initiative.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#2336c9" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #2336c9">- You can easily join the millions of people around the world working towards ecological health and sustainability just by doing something.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#8d36b3" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #8d36b3">- Go forth and agitate.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#003ab6" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #003ab6"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#b6335b" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #b6335b">- Our greatest hurtle is not money; it's imagining how things could be different.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#46b554" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #46b554">- Am I dreaming? Of course I am. But what's the alternative? I would rather dream that things can be better.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#2336c9" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #2336c9">- Imagine what impact it would have if millions of people were prepared to risk arrest for their principles.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#9b40cd" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #9b40cd">- Hitchhiking, walking and bicycling should become signs of good citizenship.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#d13a63" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #d13a63">- Be creative and persistent. Creativity and decentralization are our strengths.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#55d05a" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #55d05a">- Peace, like freedom, takes effort.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#003ab6" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #003ab6"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#3f37ca" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #3f37ca">- Everybody knows that the greatest threat to our species' survival, next to all out nuclear war, is the massive experiment we are undertaking with the very air we breath, the atmosphere that cushions our blue planet from the frostiness of deep space. Through ignorance, greed and a perverse economic system, we are throwing more and more fuel on a fire that we all know needs to be extinguished.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#b145cf" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #b145cf">- If there was a fire across the street, wouldn't you break a window, or break the law, to save a life? Are we facing unprecedented crisis on planet earth or aren't we?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#d13860" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #d13860">- As the climate changes, so must our consciousness. And our words into actions.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#58d050" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #58d050">- Each of us can and should ride our bike, compost our car, and weatherstrip around our windows. But we can and must also apply political pressure.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#3733ca" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #3733ca">- We must always consider the consequences that our decisions will have on our children.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#a944ce" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #a944ce">- In the hallways of power we must tell the truth: the costs of all this auto-mobility are much too high. In human terms. In dollar terms.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#d13c6c" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #d13c6c">- We must find ways to spice up our imaginations, and tap into our yearning for clean air and a livable city. We bury the car today in the hope that we can stop burying our friends and our loved ones. With spark and spirit we can end the car-nage, and rebuild our city so that cars are hardly necessary; where what we need is in our neighbourhood or accessible by healthier means of travel. We can evolve our city into a healthy place for people and nature, not asphalt and poison. We can do it. If we will it.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#003ab6" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #003ab6"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#52cd50" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #52cd50">- After twenty years of working to educate and mobilize for sustainable cities, I'm now convinced that the process of change is mostly a cultural one. New ideas are first ignored, then scorned, and then embraced as obvious. The first step is to get the ideas out into the public arena for consideration.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(82, 205, 80); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#5f4fc9" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #5f4fc9">- It's time for the passion for change to rush over the planet like a tidal wave. </font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#003ab6" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #003ab6"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ae43cc" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ae43cc">- Let's focus the glass and sizzle the tinder into blazing action.</font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#003ab6" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #003ab6"> </font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#ce3961" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #ce3961">- We succeeded in putting forward a vision of a sustainable city, and showed that more often than not, doing right by the Earth also helped the city's financial bottom line.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#7ccf5c" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #7ccf5c">- Elections are a time when people consider possibilities. It IS possible to protect the earth, create meaningful employment, revive our neighbourhoods, and involve citizens in the decisions that affect their lives. And especially during elections people are yearning for an attractive picture of a sustainable, equitable city of the new millenium. Let's get out the paintbrushes!</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 58, 182); min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="4" color="#3f44c8" style="font: 14.0px Helvetica; color: #3f44c8">- It IS possible to protect the earth, create meaningful employment, revive our neighbourhoods, and involve citizens in the decisions that affect their lives.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 17px; "><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and Stories of ecology and activism</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.greenspiration.org</span></span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Join our email list by emailing us at:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="mailto:greenspiration@web.ca"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">greenspiration@web.ca</span></span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Write "subscribe" in the subject line</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and tell us what city/country you live in</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span> </div><br></body></html>