<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><img height="141" width="600" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="0CB04EF2-33F1-4C75-B524-4B2FAEE40DA1" src="cid:693F05B2-A63E-4D33-BADA-5AE5EC7C7B1B@Home"><font face="Times"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6251">Bikeable City</font></b></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">3 min. video showing how to make a biteable city -- slower speed limits, and a network of protected bicycle lanes. Simple. That's how we get people onto their bikes.</font></div><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/117287104">https://vimeo.com/117287104</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#77bb41">Tell Toronto city council to vote yes for our right to a healthy environment</font></b></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">On May 5, Toronto city council will vote on a declaration to recognize the right to live in a healthy environment. The declaration asks council to take action through regular assessment and public reporting of the city’s progress on key sustainability objectives. It would commit Toronto to make decisions in a way that protects, fulfills and promotes Torontonians' right to a healthy environment — and urges other levels of government to do the same. Tell your councillor to vote yes!</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1GSRydv">http://bit.ly/1GSRydv</a></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font color="#00a3d7" size="4">TV2 Denmark Documentary on HPV Vaccine </font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/tv2-denmark-documentary-on-hpv-vaccine-shows-lives-of-young-women-ruined/">http://vaccineimpact.com/2015/tv2-denmark-documentary-on-hpv-vaccine-shows-lives-of-young-women-ruined/</a> </span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#d357fe">Heroine Jane Goodall nails animal agriculture as the largest contributor to climate destabilization</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://bit.ly/1I4wNdr">http://bit.ly/1I4wNdr</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Times"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font><div><font face="Times" size="3" color="#d357fe"><b>Just another reason to become a climate vegan</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/vegan-challenge/2015/04/earth-day-and-vegan-challenge-are-you-climate-vegan">http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/vegan-challenge/2015/04/earth-day-and-vegan-challenge-are-you-climate-vegan</a><br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">The Tool Library </font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">is offering their button maker free to environmental organizations. They’re also offering space & tools for people to make protest signs, etc. </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://torontotoollibrary.com/">http://torontotoollibrary.com/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">30th Annual MayWorks Festival of Working People and the Arts</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">May 1 - 14</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Various venues - theatre, ceremonies, workshops, tours, celebrations. </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Aiming to provide a forum where arts-positive unionists and union-positive artists can create and dialogue, Toronto's Mayworks Festival has held its ground as an independent, grassroots, and community-oriented festival for thirty years. Mayworks continues to carve out a space for artists, cultural workers, and trade unionists working in a range of mediums to engage with the common struggles of artists and labourers.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://mayworks.ca/festival-program/">http://mayworks.ca/festival-program/</a></span><br></font><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mayworks-Festival-of-Working-People-and-the-Arts/198895462105?fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mayworks-Festival-of-Working-People-and-the-Arts/198895462105?fref=ts</a> <font face="Times"><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#00a3d7">P3s in Motion Conference</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mon. May 4</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, downtown Toronto</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) -- also known as Alternative Finance and Procurement -- receive a good deal of attention, both positive and negative, re: financing our transportation systems. For large or complex projects, P3s can provide better value than delivery using traditional procurement methods. But whether we're building, improving or maintaining roads, bridges and transit, not everyone agrees that this is necessarily the best way forward.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.transportfutures.ca/p3">http://www.transportfutures.ca/p3</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#d357fe">Intro to wem Meditation</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tues. May 5, 7:30 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Anarres Apothecary, 749 Dovercourt Rd (at Bloor)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Learn about a technique that helps calm and concentrate the mind, better understand ourselves, how the mind works and develops an inner strength with creator Warren Reynolds. With more than a 20-years background in Meditation, Warren has traveled extensively at home and globally developing a strong base from which he practices and provides the benefits of the wem Program which includes Focused-Attention, Mindfulness & Compassion methods.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.anarreshealth.ca/event/free-talk-open-house">http://www.anarreshealth.ca/event/free-talk-open-house</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff6a00">Divestment 101 Series for Faith Communities - Building Support for Action<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Tues. May 5, 3 - 4 pm </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Webinar series to learn how Canadian faith communities are grappling with the moral, financial and practical questions around divesting from fossil fuels.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://fossilfreefaith.ca/divestment-101-series-for-canadian-faith-communities/">http://fossilfreefaith.ca/divestment-101-series-for-canadian-faith-communities/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><br><b><font size="4" color="#669c35">Why Should I Care: Ontario’s Booze Business </font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Wed. May 6, 7:30 pm. </span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">The Rose and Crown, 2335 Yonge<br>Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn discusses issues surrounding the politics of liquor distribution in the province. Free.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ontarios-booze-business-tickets-16502524495">http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ontarios-booze-business-tickets-16502524495</a><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#00a3d7"><b>Eastern Breeze International Film Festival </b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">May 6 - 11</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton (at Yonge)</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Documentaries, narrative films and animations promoting the rich historical and cultural diversity of contemporary Asia, North Africa and the Middle East, plus artist talks and workshops. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://easternbreeze.ca">http://easternbreeze.ca</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Ontario’s Future – Nuclear or Renewable?</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thur. May 7, 7 p.m.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Friends House, 60 Lowther (St. George subway, behind OISE)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">We phased out coal. But now Ontario is moving forward with rebuilding 10 nuclear reactors (4 at Darlington and 6 at Bruce), locking us into nuclear for another 4 decades, endangering our Great Lakes and putting us all into deep debt. Fortunately, there are lower cost and lower emission options to meet all our electricity needs in ON. What are the climate implications of nuclear vs. renewables? What are the dangers of nuclear power? What are other countries doing? Free, all welcome. With:</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">- Dr. Ian Fairlie, expert on radioactivity in the environment, from the UK, <a href="http://www.ianfairlie.org/">www.ianfairlie.org/</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">- Jack Gibbons, economist and Chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, <a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org">www.cleanairalliance.org</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">- Moderated by Angela Bischoff, Greenspiration and OCAA</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Co-sponsored by Durham Nuclear Awareness, Greenpeace, Greenspiration, Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Ontario Sustainable Energy Association, SolarShare, Voice of Women for Peace</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">For more info: <a href="mailto:angela@cleanairalliance.org">angela@cleanairalliance.org</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/676263785834355/">https://www.facebook.com/events/676263785834355/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Put Food in the Budget Information Picket of Loblaws AGM<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thursday May 7, 10 - 11:30 am</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mattamy Athletic Centre, 50 Carlton Street (former Maple Leaf Gardens building at Carlton and Church) </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Why does Galen Weston Jr., one of the richest men in Canada, and a member of the second wealthiest family in Canada, with an annual salary of $4.3 million, ask the public to donate his store’s products to food banks when he lobbies against progressive social policy and pays minimum wage to many of his own employees? Join us to challenge the myth of Galen Weston Jr.'s charity and also challenge Premier Kathleen Wynne to act now to raise social assistance rates, raise the minimum wage and raise corporate taxes.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.putfoodinthebudget.ca/">http://www.putfoodinthebudget.ca/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#77bb41">Master of the Universe</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">A look at the abysses of the financial world</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thur. May 7, 6:30pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King St W</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">This doc examines the global economy in overdrive, the lure of profit and the social impact of corporate appropriation. With English subtitles.</span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/ver/en13309110v.htm">http://www.goethe.de/ins/ca/tor/ver/en13309110v.htm</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br>---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#00c7fc">Flying Blind: The Right to Know, Gov’t Obstruction and Fixing Access in Canada<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Fri. May 8, 8:30 am - 5 pm</span></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Rogers Communications Centre, Ryerson. 80 Gould<br></font><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Panel discussions on the government's failing to create information, blocking access, limiting availability and what to do about it. $10. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://cjfe.org/resources/media_releases/one-day-conference-flying-blind-highlight-canada’s-dwindling-right-know">http://cjfe.org/resources/media_releases/one-day-conference-flying-blind-highlight-canada’s-dwindling-right-know</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times"><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Touch the Earth Lightly - Concert by Orpheus Choir<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 9, 7:30 pm</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Grace Church on-the-Hill, 300 Lonsdale Road</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Esteemed Canadian composer and conductor Leonard Enns (DaCapo Chamber Choir) challenges musicians and audiences to contemplate their dependence on fossil fuels and their relationship to the environment in his lyric choral work Ten Thousand Rivers of Oil. </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.orpheuschoirtoronto.com/touch-the-earth-lightly/">http://www.orpheuschoirtoronto.com/touch-the-earth-lightly/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">Ride for the Rouge</font></b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 9, 9 am-3 pm.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Rouge Valley Conservation Centre, 1749 Meadowvale</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Ride, walk, volunteer or just donate. There's a 25/50K route for cyclists and a 5K hike on foot. $25 registration fee (supports RVCC education and conservation programs).<br><a href="http://rvcc.ca/Ride_for_the_Rouge.html">http://rvcc.ca/Ride_for_the_Rouge.html</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#77bb41"><b>Kids World of Energy Festival</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Sat. May 9, 9 am-1 pm. </font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Green crafts, wind and solar games, talks by local eco-groups and more. Free.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://treceducation.ca/our-programs/festival">http://treceducation.ca/our-programs/festival</a></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------<br>---------------------------------------<br></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></font></div><div><font face="Times" size="4" color="#00c7fc"><b>Mr. Burns – a Post-Electric Play with the Simpsons</b></font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">May 9 – 31</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">Toronto’s Historic Aztec Theatre, 1035 Gerrard St. E.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;">In a post-apocalyptic world devoid of electricity, a small group of survivors band together in search of food, shelter and the most precious resource of all—classic lines from The Simpsons. Part pop musical, part chilling contemporary allegory, and part Simpsons celebration, MR. BURNS is an animated exploration of how the pop culture of one era evolves into the mythology of another.</font></div><div><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.outsidethemarch.ca/mrburns.php">http://www.outsidethemarch.ca/mrburns.php</a></font></div><div><font face="Times"><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#be38f3">Hot Docs</font></b><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst)</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://bloorcinema.com/">http://bloorcinema.com/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><b><font size="4" color="#ff4013">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing<br></font></b><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/">https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/</a></span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">---------------------------------------</span><br><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Eulogies and Condolences for Tooker</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">and Stories of ecology and activism</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.greenspiration.org">http://www.greenspiration.org</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Join my email list by emailing Angela at:</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="mailto:greenspiration@web.ca">greenspiration@web.ca</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Write "subscribe" in the subject line</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">and tell me what city/country you live in.</span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Likewise to unsubscribe. </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;">Or manage your subscription here: </span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l">http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l</a></span><br><span style="font-size: 14px;"><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</span><br><br><br></font></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>