Greenspiration Events: New Roots

Sun May 17 23:59:48 EDT 2020

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Global

Degrowth: New Roots for the Economy

The signatories of this letter - more than 1,100 experts and over 70 organizations from more than 60 countries - offer five principles for the recovery of our economy and the basis of creating a just society. 1) Put life at the center of our economic systems. 2) Radically reevaluate how much and what work is necessary for a good life for all. 3) Organize society around the provision of essential goods and services. 4) Democratize society. 5) Base political and economic systems on the principle of solidarity.

https://www.degrowth.info/en/open-letter/     

Billions Could Live in Extreme Heat Zones Within Decades

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/05/04/climate/heat-temperatures-climate-change.amp.html 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study 

COVID-19 Is a Product of Our Unhealthy Relationship with Animals and the Environment - by Jane Goodall

Not just wildlife trafficking, factory farming too.

https://www.ecowatch.com/jane-goodall-covid19-2645922488.html 

£2 billion package to create new era for cycling and walking in the UK

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/2-billion-package-to-create-new-era-for-cycling-and-walking 

London cycling could increase tenfold after lockdown

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/06/cycling-could-increase-five-fold-in-london-after-lockdown   

Project Save the World

More than 100 video recordings by Cdn. peace educator Dr. Metta Spencer interviewing great minds about global survival. 

https://tosavetheworld.ca/videos/ 

11 powerful food and nature documentaries you can stream right now

https://animalsaustralia.org/features/must-see-animal-documentaries.php 

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Canada

Let’s build a more resilient Canada. Here's how.

1. Invest stimulus into Canada’s fast-growing clean energy and cleantech sectors and businesses committed to the local production and export of world-leading low- and zero-carbon commodities;

2. Act quickly to support clean energy and cleantech solutions and businesses by expanding existing initiatives and programs; and

3. Share loud and clear that Canada will continue and expand on its best-in-class climate and environmental policies.

https://www.resilientrecovery.ca/ 

Who benefits? An investigation of foreign ownership in the Alberta tar sands

Findings reveal that more than 70 per cent of tar sands production is owned by investors and shareholders outside Canada's borders, sending billions out of the country each year. Reclamation of the tar sands, conventional oil and gas wells, and pipelines in Alberta will cost an estimated $260 billion. There is increasing concern that taxpayers, not polluters, will be left holding the bill for the clean up of this massive toxic mess.

https://www.stand.earth/publication/who-benefits-investigation-foreign-ownership-oil-sands 

Send a letter to PM Trudeau saying you want a just recovery, not a big oil bail out. https://act.stand.earth/page/19088/action/1  

COVID-19 latest hurdle in Canada's long road to buying new fighter jets for $19 Billion

Spending $19 B of public money on fighter jets makes no sense given all the other priorities we face in Canada.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-19-fighter-jet-bid-deadline-1.5540335 

Spending $19 billion on fighter jets won’t fight COVID-19 or climate change

Instead of buying a new weapons system, the federal government should disarm and invest in a Green New Deal

https://ricochet.media/en/3108/spending-19-billion-on-fighter-jets-wont-fight-covid-19-or-climate-change 

Future Ecologies

Series of indy podcasts produced out of BC, focusing on nature, climate change and climate inaction.

https://www.futureecologies.net/ 

The future of oil in the Canadian economy

Even before the recent collapse in the price of oil, Canada's oil and gas sector was facing a difficult future due to higher than average production costs and climate emissions. We're joined by a panel of experts for a discussion of these global trends, the politics of oil and, and Canada's potential role in the emerging renewable economy. 90 min. recorded webinar. 

https://vimeo.com/418561948

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Ontario

Ontario's Growing Climate Crisis

The Ford Gov't just paid $2.8 billion for 3 gas-fired power plants - this will ramp up greenhouse gas pollution from our electricity sector by more than 400%. There are far better ways to keep our lights on, starting with maximizing our energy efficiency efforts, making a deal with Quebec for low-cost water power and developing cost-effective renewable energy projects right here in Ontario. Read more and send a message to Doug Ford here. 

www.OntarioClimateAction.ca

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Events

Biodiversity Loss and Wildlife: Preventing the Next Pandemic

Mon. May 18, 3 p.m. EST

It is actually humanity’s destruction of biodiversity that creates the conditions for new viruses and diseases like COVID-19.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/people-planet-biodiversity-loss-and-wildlife-tickets-103734891854 

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Global Green New Deal: From Crisis to Justice for People and the Planet 

With Arundhati Roy and Naomi Klein

Tues. May 19, 11 a.m. EST

https://www.globalgnd.org/into-the-portal-webinar/ 

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Why We Oppose NATO

Tues. May 19, 3:30 p.m.

Join Ontario VOW (Voice of Women for Peace) on why we oppose NATO, its 2% GDP target, and military spending. We will learn from Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Will, the Disarmament Program of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), about excessive military spending. Let's build the Canadian movement to dismantle NATO.

https://www.un.org/disarmament/publications/occasionalpapers/unoda-occasional-papers-no-35-april-2020/   

Email ontario at vowpeace.org to register for this event.

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>From Crisis to Opportunity: Covid-19 & the Future of our Rivers

Tues. May 19, 8 - 9 p.m. EST

As International Rivers adapts to current circumstances, we are doing what we can to support partners on the ground to cope with immediate needs, while also re-imagining a healthier future for our rivers. We see it as critical that we prepare ourselves and our networks so that when doors re-open, we will be in a place to advance new and formidable solutions, from permanent river protections, to community-owned and operated micro hydropower projects that provide energy sovereignty and improved livelihoods while maintaining ecosystem balance.

https://intlrv.rs/crisis2opportunitywebinar 

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Weekly Group Reflection & Discussion: Together in Uncertain Times

Tues. May 19, 12:50 - 2 p.m. EST

Join us for 1 hour of stretching, relaxation, and guided discussion led collaboratively by Leaders in Gardening and Wellness who take the time to explore our collective responses in uncertain times. 

https://www.goboomerang.com/events/weekly-group-reflection-discussion-together-in-uncertain-times-3

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Orphan wells, tailing ponds, fracked water: How big is the toxic legacy of oil and gas?

Wed. May 20, 3 p.m. EST

Recently the federal government announced that they would spend $1.7 billion to clean up orphan wells. Many people started asking questions like: How big is the mess that oil and gas is leaving behind? What is the full cost of cleaning it up? Why aren't the polluters picking up the bill? Join us for a panel discussion with experts to find out more about this growing disaster.

https://bit.ly/OilWebinar-Part2 

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Microplastics: Tiny But Dangerous

Wed. May 20, noon EST

They can be found throughout our parks, beaches and cities. Learn about microplastics and why these extremely small pieces of plastic are wreaking havoc on the environment.

https://trca.ca/event/microplastics-tiny-but-dangerous/ 

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The Buzz on Bees: A Q&A session with YorkU's top bees experts on World Bee Day

Wed.  May 20, noon EST

Invasive insects, pesticides, land-use change and monocropping practices may reduce available nutrients and pose threats to bee colonies. To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, learn from this panel of experts.

https://events.fes.yorku.ca/event/the-buzz-on-bees-a-qa-session-with-yorkus-top-bees-experts-on-world-bee-day/ 

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Toronto Ride of Silence

Wed. May 20, 6:45 - 8 p.m.

Meet at the park corner Spadina and Bloor

Rain or shine. Join 1000s of riders worldwide in remembering those who have been killed while riding a bike.

https://www.facebook.com/events/483905515854096/ 

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Ontario Teachers: Protect your Retirement Savings and Ensure a Climate-Safe Future for Young People

Wed. May 20, 4 p.m. EST

Join Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health and teachers from across Ontario for a free one-hour online workshop and discussion on how the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) is investing your money in fossil fuels and what it means for your retirement savings and the climate crisis. 

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/online-workshop-the-ontario-teachers-pension-plan-and-climate-change-tickets-104352430930 

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Online Wisdom Keeper Series 

Wednesday, May 20, 2 pm EST

During this special 90-minute online REDTalk, join Senator Murray Sinclair, author and activist Lee Maracle, moderated by artistic director and creator Sandra Laronde as they delve into the COVID-19 pandemic from an Indigenous perspective and context. While we quarantine at home, nature is starting to restore itself, and a greater balance can be felt. Is this our opportunity to reconnect with the ecology of Indigenous values as a way forward? Could this be the first step towards living in balance with all living beings? Is meaningful transformation on the horizon? 

https://redtalks-wisdom-keeper-series.eventbrite.com

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Markets, Finance, Technologies for Global Sustainability 

Thur. May 21, 1:15 - 2:15 p.m. EST

Join futurist, Hazel Henderson, and Chris Skroupa in a sixty-minute discussion about transitions to a sustainable society and economy, and how we will produce and distribute goods and services.

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7062609993207247118 

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Keep Your Rent: Tenants’ Rights in the Age of COVID-19 

Thursday, May 21, 7 p.m. EST

With speakers from Toronto and Vancouver.

www.socialistaction.ca   

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Reporting from the heart of the pandemic

Thur. May 21, 7 p.m. EST

Matt Purdy, deputy managing editor of the New York Times, will speak about reporting from the heart of the pandemic and what it's been like to guide the Times's reporting since Trump's election.

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_O_t2BGpTT5yXaYpGVSC3IA 

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Border Violence in a Pandemic

Thursday May 21,  4pm PDT / 7 pm EST 

Join No One Is Illegal - Toronto for a discussion on migrant justice across borders, as both the precariousness and essentialness of migrants becomes increasingly apparent, injustices of incarceration are exposed, and as state advancement of the agendas of nationalism and xenophobia during the pandemic are laid bare.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SJhqRtbqQl2QbUZlurGVSw

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Mutual Aid: Building Communities of Care During Crisis and Beyond

Thursday, May 21, 8 – 9:30 pm

Learn from longtime mutual aid organizers on how to protect each other during coronavirus and how to build long-term, liberatory, and resilient communities beyond this pandemic and the death cult of capitalism and settler colonialism.

https://bit.ly/3cGT5pI  

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Day of Action for PAID emergency leave days

Thur. May 21, all day

Too many workers who keep us clean, fed and healthy, still lack the basic protection of paid sick days. Nurses, cleaners, paramedics, garbage workers, grocery store workers, and so many more CANNOT AFFORD TO STAY HOME without pay, even when they have symptoms. Join us in demanding at least 7 paid, permanent sick days for everyone - plus (+) an additional 14 during outbreaks. Join us on May 21 to demand this life saving protection for all.

https://www.15andfairness.org/doa_21paiddays_may_21_2020 

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Fridays for Future holds Weekly Climate Strikes

Fri. May 22, 11 a.m. - noon EST

Livestreamed webinars with different speakers lead by youth.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ1nFFdZbUo6cAr2jV3X0_g   

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Bird of Prey 

Screening and Q&A with the Director 

Fri. May 22, 7:30 p.m. EST

World-renowned wildlife cinematographer, Neil Rettig, embarks on the most challenging assignment of his career: to find and film the rarest eagle on the planet. An expertly woven tale with stunning cinematography, Bird of Prey journeys deep into the vanishing world of the Great Philippine Eagle and reveals an inspiring group of people that are determined to save the world’s most critically endangered eagle species from extinction.

http://torontobirdcelebration.ca/event/bird-of-prey-screening-and-qa-with-the-director-free-virtual-and-private-screening/ 

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The Rise of Fascism in India 

Sunday, May 24, 7 p.m. EST

www.socialistaction.ca      

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For the best Canadian climate and energy news, read and subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter

http://theenergymix.com/ 

And for the best global perspective: DESMOG - Clearing the PR Pollution that clouds climate science

https://www.desmogblog.com/topics/covering-climate-now 

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Centre for Social Innovation Events

https://socialinnovation.org/community/events/    

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Toronto Climate Action Network Events 

https://www.tcan.ca/events 

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NOW magazine hosts a very comprehensive online events listing for Toronto

https://nowtoronto.com/search/event/community-events/      

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