Greenspiration News & Events: Lessons for the future

Mon Mar 15 00:53:32 EDT 2021

Bankrupt Texas Oil Companies Abandon Toxic Wells, Cash Out CEOs

Last year alone, 31 US oil/gas companies - worth more than US$50 billion - filed for bankruptcy in Texas, bringing with them a wave of well abandonments. Currently, there are approximately 2.1 million unplugged abandoned wells across the country. And it's not just oil and gas companies passing on their responsibilities - recent bankruptcy filing by the American coal giant Blackjewel is a harbinger of trouble ahead for the plummeting coal industry with nearly 8,000 acres of strip-mined mountains in need of reclamation.  

https://theenergymix.com/2021/03/09/bankrupt-texas-oil-companies-abandon-toxic-wells-cash-out-ceos/ 

Call on Canada and Ontario to establish an immediate moratorium in the Ring of Fire

We, the undersigned environmental, Indigenous, and civil society organizations call on the governments of Canada and Ontario to establish an immediate moratorium in the Ring of Fire for all mineral exploration, assessments for proposed road projects, and other potential developments including the Northern Road link.

https://cela.ca/call-for-a-moratorium-in-the-ring-of-fire-to-protect-watersheds-and-indigenous-rights/ 

Trudeau: Time to end drinking water advisories in First Nations - Safe water for First Nations

https://canadians.org/action/first-nations-water

Canadian Banks are funding climate chaos

Since the Paris Agreement, Canadian banks have pumped over $600 BILLION! into fossil fuel companies. It's time to switch banks!

https://climatepledgecollective.org/bankswitch/

Fund their ad campaign:

https://chuffed.org/project/bankswitch-ads

A Decade After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Cleanup ‘Has Barely Begun’

https://theenergymix.com/2021/03/12/a-decade-after-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-cleanup-has-barely-begun-sign-on/ 

Every dollar invested in nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse

Can nuclear energy help us meet climate goals? The editor of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report, Mycle Schneider, says no.

https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-climate-mycle-schneider-renewables-fukushima/a-56712368 

Canada Needs a Climate Change Test

Unless Canada has a climate change test, it will be left behind to struggle in a future world where most other countries are successfully reducing their greenhouse gas emissions. Watch the 3 min. video here.

https://environmentaldefence.ca/canada-needs-climate-change-test/

Canada is drowning in plastic waste — and recycling won't save us

Canadians dispose of about 3.3 million tonnes of plastic each year, almost half of which is packaging. Well over three-quarters currently goes to landfills, a small proportion is incinerated and about one per cent ends up directly in the environment. Only nine per cent — or 305,000 tonnes — is recycled. "There are people alive (who) have memories of before there was disposable packaging. They ate things. They were OK.”

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/03/09/canada-drowning-plastic-waste-recycling-wont-save-us

Mayor Tory & Toronto City Council call for phase-out of Ontario’s gas plants

That makes 21 Ontario municipalities that have called for an Ontario gas plant phase-out and replacement with conservation, wind, solar, and QC water power and storage imports.

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/mayor-tory-toronto-city-council-call-for-phase-out-of-ontarios-gas-plants/

'Truth to power:' RIP renowned scientist David Schindler

One of Canada's great environmental scientist has passed. In the '70's, he pioneered studies on acid rain which lead to the Acid Rain Treaty signed by the US and Canada in '91. He then turned his attn. to studying the effects of industrial pollution from the tarsands and pulp mills on the Peace-Athabasca River Basin which lead to increased legislation and monitoring.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/science/truth-to-power-lab-was-not-enough-for-renowned-scientist-david-schindler/ar-BB1enDRh  

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EVENTS

Kitchen Table Climate Conversation Webcast Series

Mon. March 15, 7 - 9 p.m.

Some of the most important subjects are the most difficult to talk about. This 2nd in a 4-part series focuses on A Model Conversation.  With Kitchen Table Climate Conversations (KTCC’s), we support you in reaching out and gathering people round your virtual table for an open but structured conversation about climate justice.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/part-2-a-model-conversation-registration-133872842275 

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Elements of Resilience - with Starhawk

Mon. March 15, 6 p.m. EST

Resilience: the ability to bounce back after a trauma. Join Permaculture Educators Starhawk, Charles Williams and Sunshine Rose Claymore for a free webinar in which we share resiliency strategies and skills towards a shared regeneration and abundance. This is a free introduction to Earth Activist Training’s new, advanced permaculture course in Resilient Land Design. 

https://online.earthactivisttraining.org/posts/12495944?notification_id=1340354649

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Taking Doug Ford to Court! Online Watch Party & Discussion

Supreme Court case over Ford’s interference in Toronto’s election

March 16, 10 a.m. EST and throughout the day

Join us to watch live as we take on Premier Doug Ford at the Supreme Court of Canada over his attack on Toronto’s democracy. Guest speakers will share insights throughout the day. 

https://www.progresstoronto.ca/supreme-court-watch-party 

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Port Hope: A Case Study in Radioactive Risk

And an insight on the privatization arrangements for managing nuclear waste disposal in Canada 

Wed. March 17, 7:30 p.m. EST

Speakers will look at Port Hope, the legacy of radioactive wastes the community is burdened with, and community concerns, particularly in light or a recent proposal to relax environmental standards by that many felt were already too lax by changing the radioactive waste cleanup criteria.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_UUS5CkPwQeiZ-65-SXxPTw 

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Ten Years after Fukushima: Commemoration and Lessons for the Future

Wed. March 17, 8:30 EST

Two online panel discussions on lessons (un)learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. Co-hosted by The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Public Policy, Institute for Future Initiatives, and The University of British Columbia, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, Centre for Japanese Research

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ten-years-after-fukushima-commemoration-and-lessons-for-the-future-tickets-143281692399 

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Basic Income: Does it Take Us Closer to a Just Society?

Wednesday, March 17, 11 am - 12:30 pm

https://glrc.info.yorku.ca/program-social-justice-movements-in-the-changed-reality-of-the-pandemic-and-beyond/ 

https://yorku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_GtnnYGzOTamGHn_7WCpQTQ 

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Bats and Coronaviruses: Using One Health to Prevent Pandemics

Wed. Mar. 17, 4 p.m.

With Dr. Arinjay Banerjee, NSERC postdoctoral fellow at McMaster University. This seminar will highlight the interconnectedness of human, animal and environment health, and what we can learn by studying animals and their viruses, such as bats and coronaviruses to design effective countermeasures. His talk will also discuss the zoonotic and zooanthroponotic potentials of SARS-CoV-2, and its implications on human health as the COVID-19 pandemic rages on.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/136513795437  

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Indigenous Truth Before Reconciliation

Wed. March 17, 1 p.m. EST

How many of us really know Indigenous history? The inconsistent signing of treaties. The harmful details of the 1876 Indian Act, still in effect. Pierre Trudeau’s “assimilation” White Paper. Harper’s “take-it-or-leave-it” negotiations.  Justin Trudeau’s “reconciliation” (pipeline) agenda. With Bill C-15 to implement the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in the House of Commons, let's examine that history. And a future threatened by the climate crisis.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Yysk9Bb3R4uDZv5Z86-tlw

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Just Transition Act Town Hall

Thur. March 18, 6 p.m. EST

350.org is holding a grassroots town hall to get some answers from our federal leaders about Canada’s promised Just Transition Act. Over 12,000 people across Canada have called on Trudeau to deliver a Just Transition Act with no response. That’s why we’ve invited Trudeau’s Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson to answer the public’s questions about Canada’s just transition. Wilkinson still hasn’t answered the invitation but Green Party Parliamentary Leader Elizabeth May and NDP Environment Critic Laurel Collins have confirmed they will be there.

https://350.org/canada/jt-townhall/

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The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada's Public Wealth 

Thursday, March 18, 7 pm EST

With author Linda McQuaig; Hosted by Elizabeth Byce; Discussants John Orrett in Thornhill, and others.

https://youtu.be/yU5YGBuKvuc 

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Rally to Reclaim Nestlé’s Troubled Waters

Thur. March 18, 7 p.m. EST

Nestlé, the world’s largest corporate water bottler, has announced it is planning to sell its North American bulk bottled water business, which operates the brands Arrowhead, Poland Spring, Zephyrhills, Pure Life, Ice Mountain and others, to private equity firm One Rock Capital. This sale, for an estimated $4 billion, will be a massive private transfer of ‘water wealth,’ an especially ominous development in light of Wall Street’s accelerating interest in ‘water futures’ trading. Wellington Water Watchers is part of the coalition of national advocacy groups and communities impacted by Nestlé’s water extraction and bottling demanding that Nestlé Waters’ sites be returned to public ownership before any sale.

https://storyofstuff.typeform.com/to/EZWEzMHS

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Energy, Jobs and Transition

Thursday, March 18, noon - 1 pm EST

This month, we examine Canada's Just Transition. Our discussion will focus on how a gradual transition off fossil fuels will impact workers and communities in Canada, and how smart planning can help us rise to the challenge. Join Catherine Abreu of Climate Action Network, Jim Stanford of the Centre for Future Work and Melina Laboucan-Massimo of Sacred Earth Solar to learn more about how the energy transition can be fair for all.

https://bit.ly/3cr47Ae

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Poverty in All its Forms is Violence: Caregivers Victimized by Poverty Speak Out

Thur. March 18, 7 p.m. EST

A multi-racial panel of mothers and other caregivers will speak out about their experiences of poverty and systemic racism, the war economy, destruction of the environment and the violence and oppression of the market focused economy.

https://actionnetwork.org/events/truth-commission-poverty-in-all-its-forms-is-violence-caregivers-victimized-by-poverty-speak-out

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The Right to Care in the Time of COVID: The Case of Nursing Homes

Fri. March 19, 3 - 4 p.m. EST

Featuring Dr. Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor in Sociology at York University.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-right-to-care-in-the-time-of-covid-the-case-of-nursing-homes-tickets-143023797027 

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Is Israel an Apartheid State? If So, What Must Be Done?

Sun. March 21, 1 p.m. EST

Israeli apartheid. Israel and its lobbyists boil over with anger when they hear the term. Many media outlets avoid it. Palestinians have long referred to their day-to-day realities as “apartheid.” If Israel is an apartheid state, as many argue, how can we work to end Israeli apartheid and win equality and justice for everyone living in the region? Join us for this event to hear what four of the leading authorities on the ‘Crime of Apartheid’ have to say.

https://ijvcanada.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vQgkmocNSly2WW2lndfQ-Q 

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