<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-size: 20px;" color="#009d3b">Greenspiration</font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" style="font-size: 20px;" color="#ff0081"> News</font></b><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;">Here's to 2013 ushering in the<b> renewable energy revolution!</b></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'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">“Be truthful, gentle and fearless.” </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; ">~</span><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> <i>Gandhi</i><br> </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">“I do not want to talk about what you understand about this world. I want to know what you will do about it. I do not want to know what you hope. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle.” ~ <i>Robert Fulghum</i><br> </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#bc4400"><b>Cycle and Recycle Calendar </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">– 2002 – 2013 – 2019 This bicycle wall calendar, published cooperatively by 13 NGOs in 3 countries, features 30 remarkable color photos, provocative quotes, illustrations and more. The images convey a bicycle culture without borders. Every donation to Greenspiration will receive a calendar! (min. $12 - includes calendar and postage) Please send cheque or money order to: Greenspiration, c/o #809, 100 Lower Ossington Ave, Toronto, Ontario M6J 1A7. Multiple orders welcome. Questions? <<a href="mailto:greenspi@web.ca">greenspi@web.ca</a>>. </span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Thanks in advance!</span><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">-angela</span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#8a00c0"><b>First Nations Solidarity</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#8a00c0"><b><a href="http://www.ecosanity.org/blogsanity/compilation-idle-no-more-mass-movement-indigenous-sovereignty%20%0A">Idle No More</a> </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A Mass Movement for Indigenous Sovereignty - Compilation</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="#8a00c0"><b><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/117667705/Idle-No-More-Bill-Breakdown%20">Idle No More's critique of Harper's proposed 8 B</a>ills</b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> that violate treaties and are meant to destroy and assimilate First Nations communities. </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'" size="5" color="#1ca045"><b>Environment</b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><br></span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px; "><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nr-grdspEWQ"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#179129"><b>Solar Power Revolution - Here Comes the Sun </b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 13px; ">Wow - fantastic doc about the solar power revolution enabled by the Feed In Tariffs in Germany. We have a similar FIT program in Ontario but it is being challenged primarily by rural landowners fuelled by Conservative leader Tim Hudak.</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#1ca045"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#179129"><b><a href="http://www.ubcpress.com/search/title_book.asp?BookID=299173507%0A">An Environmental History of Canada</a></b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#179129"> </font>Traces how Canada’s colonial and national development contributed to modern environmental problems such as urban sprawl, the collapse of fisheries, and climate change</span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><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.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/11/norway-carbon-tax-oil%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#1ca045"><b>Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Extra funding for climate change mitigation and forestry programmes also part of oil-rich nation's radical programme</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'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 26px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#179129"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/28/science/earth/in-ireland-carbon-taxes-pay-off.html?_r=0"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>Carbon Taxes Make Ireland Even Greener</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "> </span></font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 22px; ">Environmentally and economically, the new taxes have delivered results. Long one of Europe’s highest per-capita producers of greenhouse gases, with levels nearing those of the United States, Ireland has seen its emissions drop more than 15 percent since 2008.</span></font></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><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#1ca045"><b><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/china-is-building-a-nearly-car-free-city-2012-11%0A">China Is Building A Huge Eco-City Where No One Will Need To Drive</a> </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Half the road space will be reserved for non-motorized traffic, and electric shuttles will get people where they cannot or do not want to walk. All homes will be within a two-minute walk of a public park.</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><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#1ca045"><b><a href="http://www.8-80cities.org/images/res-streets-articles/toward-more-comprehensive-traffic.pdf%20">Toward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Traffic Congestion</a> </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Roadways are expanded in order to accommodate anticipated automobile traffic, which in turn, induces additional vehicle use. Build it and they will come.</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://www.triplepundit.com/2012/10/economic-impact-bicycling/%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#1ca045"><b>How Bicycling Creates Economic Impact: A Tale of Two Cities</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Bike lanes mean more spending in local neighbourhoods. Bikes are good for business!</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><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="5" color="#4800a1"><b>Big Pharma</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.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2202434/Taking-Prozac-Don-t-drive-Pills-raise-risk-having-accident-70.html#ixzz26ln3sPqE%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#4800a1"><b>Taking Prozac (or other SSRI antidepressant)? Don’t drive: Pills raise risk of you having an accident by 70%</b></font></a></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.alternet.org/drugs/poor-kids-getting-prescribed-adhd-meds-they-dont-need-against-their-will?page=0,0&akid=9514.290405.YaMEZ7&rd=1&src=newsletter724250&t=7%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#4800a1"><b>Poor Kids Getting Prescribed ADHD Meds They Don't Need, Against Their Will</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> "We've decided as a society that it's too expensive to modify the kid's environment. So we have to modify the kid."</span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#470491"><b><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1299386--adult-antidepressants-suspected-in-suicides-of-canadian-kids">Adult antidepressants suspected in suicides of Canadian kids</a> </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.cwhn.ca/en/node/45479%20">Women, gender and medical screening</a> </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A "primer" on medical screening specific to women </span><br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#470491"><b><a href="http://theconversation.edu.au/is-routine-breast-cancer-screening-doing-more-harm-than-good-10531">Is routine breast cancer screening doing more harm than good?</a> </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#470491"><b><a href="http://www.rxisk.org">Great new website about prescription drugs side effects</a> </b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" size="4" color="#470491"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhO0Pul_FcE">The true source or random and mass shootings and violence</a> </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">11 min. video</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><a href="http://www.szasz.com/%20">RIP Thomas Szasz</a> </b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">"If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." </span><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'" color="#470491"><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"><b><a href="http://www.whocaresinsweden.com/%20"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#470491">Who Cares in Sweden?</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#4800a1"> </font></b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">A documentary trilogy about anti-depressant drugs </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'" size="5" color="#cc0000"><b>Misc.</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><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><a href="http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/f-word/2012/11/f-word-re-thinking-menstruation%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#ff0003">Rethinking menstruation</font></a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#af0024"> </font></b></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">This podcast deconstructs some of the patriarchal beliefs about women’s cycles. This show highlights cultural (mis)understandings, personal stories, health, and alternative options.</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><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://www.demilitarize.ca/"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#ff0003"><b>Demilitarize Canada</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children.” - <i>Dwight Eisenhower, former U.S. General and President, 1953, A Chance for Peace</i></span><br></font></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.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4640?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=181012%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#ff0003"><b>Canada’s Spy Groups Divulge Secret Intelligence to Energy Companies</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Documents raise fears that info on environmentalists, Indigenous groups and more shared with industry at biannual, secret-level, briefings.</span><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.commondreams.org/headline/2012/09/21-1%0A"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4" color="#ff0003"><b>In Quebec It's Official: Mass Movement Leads to Victory for Students</b></font></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"> Naomi Klein: 'This is why radical movements are mercilessly mocked. They can win.</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'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">------<br><br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br>Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker<br>and Stories of ecology and activism<br><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a><br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br>Join my email list by emailing Angela at:<br>greenspiration@web.ca<br>Write "subscribe" in the subject line<br>and tell me what city/country you live in<br><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br><br><br></span></font></div><br></div></div></body></html>