Greenspiration News & Events: Earthrise

Mon Feb 1 00:51:43 EST 2021

Dizzying pace of Biden's climate action sounds death knell for era of denialism

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/30/joe-biden-climate-change-action 

Five reasons for Canada to say goodbye and good riddance to KXL

https://canadians.org/analysis/five-reasons-canada-say-goodbye-and-good-riddance-kxl  

Earthrise - by Amanda Gorman

... So I tell you this not to scare you but to prepare you to dare you to dream a different reality where despite disparities we all care to protect this world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwOvBv8RLmo 

Call for a moratorium and inquiry on offshore drilling in Nova Scotia

https://canadians.org/action/call-moratorium-and-inquiry-offshore-drilling-nova-scotia

Biggest-Ever Global Climate Poll Reveals Overwhelming Demand for Action

The People’s Climate Vote survey reached more than 1.2 million people in 50 countries this past December. 75% of Canadians polled, regardless of age, said action should be urgent and on many fronts, while 69% agreed that polluters should pay.

https://theenergymix.com/2021/01/29/biggest-ever-global-climate-poll-reveals-overwhelming-demand-for-action/ 

Ending the Global Security Threats of Nuclear Power: Lessons from the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – 90 min. video webinar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzFu9N90WU&t=25s

Activists block trucks at company transporting weapons to Saudi Arabia, demand Canada stop fueling war in Yemen

Despite the global pandemic and calls from the UN for a global ceasefire, Canada has continued to export arms to Saudi Arabia. Since the beginning of the pandemic, Canada has exported over $750 million worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, part of a $15 billion arms deal. 

https://worldbeyondwar.org/press-release-activists-block-trucks-at-company-transporting-weapons-to-saudi-arabia-demand-canada-stop-fuelling-war-in-yemen/

Petition: https://bit.ly/2YuMtoH

Drawing from Despots: How Alberta is Using Tactics Borrowed From Russia, Kuwait and Others to Try to Silence Opposition to Oil and Gas Expansion

https://environmentaldefence.ca/report/drawing-from-despots/

Tell Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland: Don't Subsidize New Nuclear

Once again, the federal government is planning to waste taxpayers dollars on a new nuclear technology which is far more hype than substance with no working prototypes in Canada. Send her a letter here.

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/no-nuclear-subsidies/ 

Don’t let Pfizer call the shots: Say no to new tax cuts for big pharma

https://canadians.org/action/pharma-tax-cuts

Why Canadians Can't Bike in the Winter (but Finnish people can)

Many Canadians see the cold and snow as a fundamental barrier to year round cycling. But one winter city, Oulu in Finland, shows that winter cycling has nothing to do with the weather, and everything to do with safe cycling infrastructure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

End Homelessness Now: Support emergency housing for all in Toronto

https://www.progresstoronto.ca/end-homelessness?mc_cid=85ca3af1b7&mc_eid=c3393ca6e5#petition

Clown for the Climate 

6-week free clown workshop series for climate activists

Sundays Feb. 7 – March 14, 2 – 5 p.m. EST

To register and for more info: couture.benz at gmail.com .

FB event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/265010378319665/

RIP Alan Wayne Scott

One of Toronto's great cycling activists, Alan Wayne "Scunny" Scott was involved in Toronto's cycling courier community since the early 80's, winning a Fuel for Food Deductibility for bike couriers. He advocated on behalf of fellow courier Darcy Allan Sheppard who was run down (killed) by politician/lawyer Michael Bryant because Wayne believed the case was never properly investigated or charged. Wayne was also a co-founder of Take the Tooker.

https://www.facebook.com/bikelawcanada/posts/1946911658799032 

RIP Diane Bruni

Life and Death on My Own Terms - podcast in Nov. about her dying process. My first yoga teacher.

https://mindfulstrength.ca/diane-bruni-181/

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Better Ballots 101

Mon. Feb. 1, 7 p.m. EST

A one-hour beginners crash course for those who would like to learn more about Canada's lousy voting system - and how we can fix it. You'll learn all the basics: How our current system fails us, and what the other options are - systems already being used successfully all over the world! We'll cover: • Plurality VS Majority VS Proportional • Party lists • Multi-member districts • Mixed-Member Proportional • Single Transferable Vote • Common myths + more.

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYrduCurjstHNDK0n2-91T2tfMkGqw9gjtT

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Resource Movement Info Session 

Mon. Feb 1, 7p.m. EST 

Join us to hear more about what folks with access to wealth and class privilege can do about social injustice.

https://www.facebook.com/events/245903176984517 

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Death by Coercion

Mon. Feb. 1, 6 - 8 p.m. EST

In this event we will hear from experts and disabled community members on the proposed changes in legal expansion of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD), Bill C-7. We will also explore the potential impacts of this expansion on Black, Indigenous Queer, Sick, Poor and incarcerated communities, and explore concerns around medical coercion.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/impacts-of-changes-to-maid-on-black-indigenous-queer-and-poor-communities-tickets-137304333959

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Carbon Cache: How Canada’s natural landscapes can help fight climate change

Tues. Feb. 2, 2 p.m. EST

We’ll dig into how nature-based solutions work and the federal government’s $3.9 billion dollar commitment to implementing them. We’ll also discuss how nature-based solutions factor into ongoing conversations about Indigenous Protected Areas and how carbon offsets fit into the equation.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9316111623448/WN_JZJ4E6DUTGqHgy6r8Z1K9g   

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No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis

Tues. Feb. 2, 6 p.m. EST

As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe. An urgent call for climate justice, No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis, analyzes the environmental crisis with an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, Indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/no-planet-b-a-teen-vogue-guide-to-the-climate-crisis-tickets-138438548425

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Pipeline Perils and Politics

Wed. Feb 3, 1 p.m. EST 

We’ll survey pipeline projects and some questionable politics.  Also, ACTIONS we can take to bring about more cancellations! President Biden kept his word and cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline. Immediately, the media were airing every whine and threat Jason Kenney uttered. Trudeau, another pipeline promoter, also embarrassed Canada.  Most of us want a green recovery, not more oil and gas infrastructure. Find out how we can make our voices heard.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VEUjDVWcQ2a6A8DTwYwxxw

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Cycle Toronto 2021 Advocacy Forum

Wed. Feb. 3 - 5, lunch and evening sessions

Join engaged residents from across the city to share best practices in how to engage with the community, other residents, elected officials, and city staff so that you can affect meaningful change. 

https://www.cycleto.ca/event/2021-advocacy-forum

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>From a Grassroots Movement to a State-Centred Initiative: How the EITI Lost

Wed. Feb. 3, noon - 2 p.m.

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) was announced in Johannesburg in 2002, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development. This global governance initiative emerged thanks to a huge push from non-state actors, especially the transnational civil society coalition. Although the initiative was designed to involve core participation from civil society organizations and corporations, key decision-making processes within the EITI point to a state-centred co-optation of the movement. This seminar examines whether, and to what extent, the shift from a non-state actor movement to a state-centred initiative ultimately contributed to the silencing of environmental concerns from the EITI’s earlier framework.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/from-a-grassroots-movement-to-a-state-centred-initiative-how-the-eiti-lost-tickets-131551874197 

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ACORN National Day of Action - Housing

Wed. Feb. 3, 1 p.m. EST

Join ACORN members from coast to coast to demand the Federal Government rein in corporate landlords, who are using tax loopholes to pay ZERO income tax!

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtc-iqqDwtE9IbcYYsINfAnyYbogL8WmJ3 

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Begin 2021 Asking the Bigger Questions: A Virtual Lab

Wed. and Thur. Feb. 3-4

A two-day intensive action lab with world thought leaders to support your business, organisations and individual lifestyles. This virtual action lab will create the space to re-imagine the ways in which we can limit our impact on our planetary resources, in the immediate and long-term, for ourselves and our for all generations.

https://www.hawkwoodcollege.co.uk/event/climate-action-lab-iii-online/

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Next Economy Conversations: Paul Taylor of FoodShare

Thur. Feb. 4, noon - 1 p.m. EST

Meet Paul Taylor: lifelong anti-poverty activist, food justice advocate, and Executive Director of FoodShare which advocates for food justice.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/next-economy-conversations-paul-taylor-of-foodshare-tickets-136618187677 

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Webinar: Global Assembly on Climate - What Can We Learn for Electoral Reform?

Sun. Feb. 7, 2 p.m. EST

Around the world, citizens' assemblies are driving change on the toughest issues. The biggest citizens' assembly in the world is about to begin: The Global Assembly on climate. What can we learn from their journey as we continue to champion a National Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform for Canada?

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8016111241159/WN_xAZFLXWIQmW9_F71-EtTAg     

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https://www.democracynow.org/ 

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