<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Hi all. I hope you enjoyed sunny days this summer. </font><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">I'm back in the saddle. :) <br class="">- angela<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#4f7a28" class="">☢ The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age</font></b><br class="">The new Anthropocene epoch should begin about 1950, defined by the radioactive elements dispersed across the planet by nuclear bomb tests, as well as plastic, soot, rapid climate change and mass species extinction.<br class=""><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/aug/29/declare-anthropocene-epoch-experts-urge-geological-congress-human-impact-earth</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">☢ Close the old and dangerous Pickering Nuclear Station </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Please Sign the Petition to Close Pickering when its license expires in 2018 rather than extend its life 'till 2028 which is OPG's hope.<br class=""><a href="http://www.cleanairalliance.org/close-pickering/" class="">http://www.cleanairalliance.org/close-pickering/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">☢ Montreal Declaration for a Nuclear-Fission-Free World </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">We invite all people, groups and organizations involved in the effort for a world without nuclear fission and uranium mining, to commit themselves to this effort. To endorse the declaration, send name, city, country and email address to: <a href="mailto:ccnr@web.ca" class="">ccnr@web.ca</a></font><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://www.ccnr.org/declaration_WSF_e_2016.pdf" class="">http://www.ccnr.org/declaration_WSF_e_2016.pdf</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#008cb4" class="">Stop Canada’s $30 billion Purchase of New Warplanes and Warships - Petition </font></b></font><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.change.org/p/trudeau-stop-canada-s-30-billion-purchase-of-new-warplanes-and-warships" class="">https://www.change.org/p/trudeau-stop-canada-s-30-billion-purchase-of-new-warplanes-and-warships</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Stop routine herbicide spraying on Ontario public lands - Petition </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ministry_of_Natural_Resources_Forestry_Ministry_of_Environment_Stop_routine_herbicide_spraying_on_Ontario_and_Renfrew_Co/?mJjDaab" class="">https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Ministry_of_Natural_Resources_Forestry_Ministry_of_Environment_Stop_routine_herbicide_spraying_on_Ontario_and_Renfrew_Co/?mJjDaab</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class=""><b class="">Energy East Would Be An Export Pipeline</b><br class=""></font>http://environmentaldefence.ca/2016/08/09/time-reminder-energy-east-export-pipeline/<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#874efe" class="">Side Effects of Antidepressants - know the risks </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://rxisk.org/side-effects-of-antidepressants/?utm_source=August+2016+Newsletter&utm_campaign=July+%7C+August+News&utm_medium=email" class="">http://rxisk.org/side-effects-of-antidepressants/?utm_source=August+2016+Newsletter&utm_campaign=July+%7C+August+News&utm_medium=email</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#008cb4" class="">Give and Get: Making good ideas happen<br class=""></font></b>Monthly gathering. Give and Get: making good ideas happen is a house event for people with projects. It’s a place to eat together, seek and offer ideas, support and new connections in a fun and friendly environment.<br class="">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/give-and-get-making-good-ideas-happen-tickets-24524872554<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Sylvia Earle: How to protect the oceans: with Sylvia Earle - 18 min. video </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43DuLcBFxoY" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43DuLcBFxoY</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff4013" class="">Stop Bank Price Gouging - Postal Banking is an affordable banking alternative </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Tell your MP: “Stop bank price gouging - I want affordable postal banking now!”<br class=""><a href="http://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/banking" class="">http://www.deliveringcommunitypower.ca/banking</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><font color="#874efe" class=""><b class="">Crazy Talk</b></font></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Tues. Sept. 6, 7 - 8:30 pm.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">OISE, 252 Bloor, Room 12-274 (12th floor). </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Open forum on psych and mad politics with Erick Fabris and guest Laura Delano on getting off psych drugs. Free. Wheelchair accessible.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="mailto:madly@teksavvy.com" class="">madly@teksavvy.com</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#0061ff" class="">Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class<br class=""></font></b>Thursday, September 8, 7 pm<br class="">United Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St. (near spadina and college)<br class="">Immanuel Ness provides a thorough and expert perspective of three key countries where workers are fighting the spread of unchecked industrial capitalism: China, India, and South Africa. In each case, he considers the broader historical forces in play, such as the effects of imperialism, the decline of the international union movement, class struggle, and the growing reserve of available labor. He then narrows his focus in each case on the specifics of the current grassroots insurgency: the militancy of miners in South Africa, new labor organizations in India, and the rise of worker insurgencies in China. The product of extensive firsthand field research, Southern Insurgency paints a picture of the new industrial proletariat in the Global South—a group that lives a precarious, frightening existence yet at the same time offers hope for new approaches to solidarity and the anti-capitalist struggle. Co-sponsors: Centre for Social Justice, Department of Social Science, York University, Socialist Project <br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1762918650586408/" class="">https://www.facebook.com/events/1762918650586408/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Extraction! Launch and Fundraiser for MISN Toronto </font></b></font><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Thursday September 8, 6 p.m.<br class="">Beit Zatoun, 610 Markham Street<br class="">In 2006, four journalists teamed up with four comic book illustrators to expose the criminal activities of Canadian mining companies. "EXTRACTION! Comix Reportage" is the result: a four-part anthology of comics journalism, looking at four key sectors of the Canadian extraction economy: gold (Guatemala – Goldcorp), aluminum (India – Alcan), oil (Tar Sands, Alberta), and uranium (N.W.T. – Cameco). Join Ad Astra Comix and Mining Injustice Solidarity Network (MISN) for the Toronto launch of this important title. Books are $18, and 50% of all sales of "Extraction!" go towards MISN and their important work. <br class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/326894067642019/?active_tab=highlights" class="">https://www.facebook.com/events/326894067642019/?active_tab=highlights</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff6a00" class="">Stop Plastics</font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Fri. Sept. 9, 6 p.m.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Metro Hall (King and John), </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Monthly meeting of the group dedicated to stopping the use of single-use plastic. Free.<br class=""><a href="mailto:contact@stopplastics.ca" class="">contact@stopplastics.ca</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#4f7a28" class="">Green Energy Doors Open<br class=""></font></b>Fri. - Sun, Sept. 9,10,11. <br class="">Showcase of more than 150 sustainable energy projects throughout Ontario. Visit and learn about solar rooftops, solar heat pumps, net zero buildings and more. <br class="">Full list of Toronto events here (plug toronto in the search engine): <a href="http://greenenergydoorsopen.ca/events-2/search-events/" class="">http://greenenergydoorsopen.ca/events-2/search-events/</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.greenenergydoorsopen.ca" class="">www.GreenEnergyDoorsOpen.ca</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#be38f3" class="">Veg Food Fest<br class=""></font></b>Fri. - Sun, Sept. 9 - 11<br class="">Harbourfront Centre<br class="">Cooking demonstrations, vendors, speakers </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://www.vegfoodfest.com" class="">www.vegfoodfest.com</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#0061ff" class="">Before the Flood </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">TIFF film about climate change</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Sept. 9, 10, 15 and 16</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Fisher Stevens' latest documentary (formerly titled The Turning Point) chronicles Leonardo DiCaprio's campaign to raise global awareness about the dangers of climate change in his role as a UN Ambassador of Peace.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://www.tiff.net/films/before-the-flood/" class="">http://www.tiff.net/films/before-the-flood/</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" color="#669c35" class=""><b class="">Sustainable Development Goals - Advocates Toronto Training </b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Saturday Sept. 10, 10:30 am - 4:30pm </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">U of T’s Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street, Room 1160.<br class="">Science for Peace invites you to a one-day training to become a certified advocate of the UN 's Sustainable Development Goals. Ravi Karkara, a UN official will present the training. <br class=""><a href="http://www.unsdgtraining.eventbrite.com" class="">www.UNSDGtraining.eventbrite.com</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Free screening and discussion </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Saturday, September 10, 10 am - 11:45 am </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Annette Library, 145 Annette St.<br class="">Guy Dauncey is a great Canadian ecologist, author and futurist. Guy’s brilliant and intelligent presentation shows a positive and possible vision of the future. Following the film, there will be a tour of a local energy efficient home ith a ground source heat pump (geothermal / geoexchange). <br class=""><a href="http://www.green13toronto.org/event/green-13-celebrates-green-energy-doors-open-free-screening-and-discussion-journey-future" class="">http://www.green13toronto.org/event/green-13-celebrates-green-energy-doors-open-free-screening-and-discussion-journey-future</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#9929bd" class="">Bicycle Music Festival </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Saturday, September 10, 11 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.<br class="">Meet at Evergreen Brickworks, ride to Prairie Drive Park - optional return Join us on a 10 km guided bike ride along the Pan Am Path for the 7th Annual Bicycle Music Festival! We’ll watch the first performance at Evergreen Brick Works and depart on the ride at noon. We’ll then ride east with pedal powered musical accompaniment to Prairie Drive Park for more performances and activities, including a headlining performance from Jason Collett. A return trip to the Brick Works is scheduled from Prairie Drive Park at 5:30 pm. RSVP<br class=""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/p4k-pathfinding-cycle-toronto-rides-the-pan-am-path-for-the-bicycle-music-festival-registration-26949761462" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/p4k-pathfinding-cycle-toronto-rides-the-pan-am-path-for-the-bicycle-music-festival-registration-26949761462</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#0056d6" class="">Indigenous Waterways<br class=""></font></b>Sun. Sept. 11, 10 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.<br class="">Evergreen Brickworks<br class="">Toronto’s Indigenous Waterways event will raise awareness of, build connection to, and encourage people to take action related to the waterways of our city by providing an indigenous perspective and approach on relating to and caring for our watersheds.<br class="">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/indigenous-waterways-tickets-7923470313<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Chile: September 11, 1973<br class=""></font></b>Sun. Sept. 11, 3 - 7 p.m.<br class="">Woodsworth College Residence, 321 Bloor St West, Room 30 Black Bird Liberation Cinema presents this year's film series commemorating the 43rd Anniversary of the Bloody Coup D’état in Chile, bringing about the 17-year fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. The films document the process(es) of Popular Power, and State repression before and after the Coup. All films in Spanish with English subtitles.<br class="">Organized by: The Women's Coordinating Committee for a Free Wallmapu [Toronto] xxx<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff4013" class="">Build Peace, End War and Terror - Write letters for nuclear disarmament<br class=""></font></b>Sun. Sept. 11, 4 p.m.<br class="">Friends House 60 Lother Ave.<br class="">There is a two week window to send letters to PM Trudeau for Canada to vote in favour of nuclear disarmament before a crucial UN vote. Join Voice of Women for Peace for refreshments and letter writing. Free. Come and share your ideas for peace in the 15th anniversary of 9/11. Find out more here: http://scienceforpeace.ca Write a letter from home - no postage required. And sign the Ceasefire petition at: http://www.ceasefire.ca/?p=24026 Background info (6 minutes) for campaign for nuclear disarmament from ICANW (International Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons)<br class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmLQKdDh5S4&feature=em-share_video_user<br class="">www.vowpeace.org<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#be38f3" class="">Five Great Extinctions - Are We Facing Another? </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Sun. Sept 11, 2:30 pm</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen's Park Cres, Room 003</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Kevin Seymour, ROM, describes past mass-extinction events and signs of a possible man-made future extinction. </font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://torontofieldnaturalists.org" class="">http://torontofieldnaturalists.org</a></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------</font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class=""><font color="#3a88fe" class="">Beit Zatoun Events<br class=""></font></b><a href="http://beitzatoun.org/events/" class="">http://beitzatoun.org/events/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#669c35" class="">Centre for Social Innovation Events<br class=""></font></b>http://socialinnovation.ca/community/events/listing <br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#e63b7a" class="">Shape My City Events<br class=""></font></b>http://shapemycity.ca/events.php<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#5e30eb" class="">Hot Docs</font><br class=""></b>Bloor Cinema (Bloor and Bathurst) <br class="">http://bloorcinema.com/<br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><b class=""><font color="#00a3d7" class="">NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing </font></b></font></div><div class=""><font face="Times" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/" class="">https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/</a><br class=""><br class="">---------------------------------------<br class="">---------------------------------------<br class=""><br class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<br class="">Join my email list by emailing Angela at:<br class="">greenspiration@web.ca<br class="">Write "subscribe" in the subject line<br class="">and tell me what city/country you live in.<br class="">Likewise to unsubscribe.<br class="">Or manage your subscription here:<br class="">http://list.web.net/lists/listinfo/greenspirationto-l<br class=""><<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<</font><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>