Greenspiration News & Events: Green Marshall Plan

Mon Oct 17 00:07:43 EDT 2022

☼ Green Marshall Plan for Ukraine ☼

By Amory Lovins. Ukraine must rebuild for a fossil and nuclear free future. Renewables, ⚡️efficiency and industrial innovation must be at the core of #UkraineRecovery

https://energytransition.org/2022/10/four-transformations-for-ukraine-to-become-a-new-green-powerhouse-of-europe/  

Two Youth Voices from Russia & Ukraine on Putin, Resistance Inside Russia & Their Views on Anti-Imperialism

https://www.democracynow.org/2022/10/13/russian_war_ukraine_putin_nato_annexation 

Which Side Are You On? By Artists for Action

Music video including Ani Defranco, Bruce Cockburn, Maria Dunn and many more. "When I look around at what is happening in America, in Ukraine, when I see the erosion of women’s rights and the legitimacy of elections being questioned, it concerns me greatly."

https://whichsideareyouon.ca/ 

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MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS in Ontario

ON Municipal Elections are being held Mon. Oct. 24

Take the time to get informed - especially on candidates and climate issues - with some of these resources, and make a plan to vote!

Help push your favorite enviro-justice-minded candidates over the top by helping them distribute leaflets, pull the vote, or make a donation.

Toronto Election 2022 Candidate Tracker - See who’s voting and where, and what their platforms are.

https://thelocal.to/candidate-tracker/   

MyVote - find out where and when you can vote

https://myvote.toronto.ca/home 

Municipal Candidates' Climate Pledge - OCEC (Ontario Climate Emergency Coalition) has asked candidates around Ontario to sign a Climate Pledge. See the list of candidates that have endorsed it. Please print and ask your riding candidates if they will sign it.

https://www.ontarioclimateemergency.ca/candidate-pledge    

Progress Toronto is supporting Progressive Champions for City Council and the Toronto District School Board in key races across Toronto. See their choices here.

https://www.progresstoronto.ca/progressive-champions-2022 

A Constituents’ Guide to Park People’s Parks Platform

https://parkpeople.ca/blog/a-constituents-guide-to-park-peoples-parks-platform 

Affordable (& Accessible) Housing Pledge

Toronto: https://right2housingto.ca/the-affordable-housing-pledge/ 

Candidates in other municipalities: http://shorturl.at/KSUZ3     

Greener City For All Pledge - Have your candidates committed to key climate and environmental actions? Hosted by Toronto Environmental Alliance.

https://election.torontoenvironment.org/pledge_results 

Ontario Clean Air Alliance asked candidates in Pickering, Ajax, Clarington and Kincardine if they supported safer nuclear waste storage at Pickering and Bruce Nuclear Station and immediate dismantling after shutdown. Read the responses here:

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/ontario-municipal-election-2022-responses-2/ 

Cycle Toronto are calling on candidates in Toronto’s 2022 municipal election to commit to making our city safer, healthier, more equitable, and sustainable by prioritizing complete streets and road safety by pledging to take 10 Priority Actions.

How are candidates promising to improve transit? Pledges gathered by TTCRiders.

https://www.ttcriders.ca/2022

Calling for Safe and Active Streets for All - 10 priority actions - hosted by Cycle Toronto, The Centre for Active Transportation (TCAT), Walk Toronto, and Friends and Families for Safe Streets (FFSS)

https://safeandactivestreets.cycleto.ca/priority_actions 

Road Safety Calls to Action - hosted by Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition 

https://www.communitybikewaysto.ca/municipal-vote-2022 

Gender Equity

https://www.ywcatoronto.org/Assets/YWCA/Documents/Advocacy/22106_MunicipalElectionCampaign-1Pager_Fa.pdf

Vote to End Homelessness

https://taeh.ca/end-homelessness-2022

ArtsVote 2022 

https://www.artsvote.ca/artsvote-2022/ 

Know Your Vote T.O. - a project by Toronto Public Library

https://www.knowyourvote.to/

What Makes A Strong Environment Platform?

https://environmentaldefence.ca/what-makes-a-strong-environment-plan-for-toronto/

Elect Socialists to City Council in 2022

Expand Public Services. Defer or Cut Taxes and Fees for Small Businesses and Primary Residence Homeowners. Provide Free Wi-Fi for Low Income Neighbourhoods. Tax Big Business and Banks! Support Indigenous Land Back — Support Wiigwaasikaa.

https://municipal.socialistalliance.ca/

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Planet in Focus - International Environmental Film Festival

Oct. 13 - 23

Planet in Focus is an environmental media arts organization that showcases engaging and artistic films that question, explore and tell stories about the world in which we live. Films can be seen in theatres in Toronto during the festival OR virtually.

https://planetinfocus.org/2022-festival/   

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#FundPeaceNotWar Week of Action

October 15 - 23

Join us in demanding NO new fighter jets, warships, or drones! We need billions for housing, health care, jobs and climate, NOT for war profiteering!

https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/fundpeacenotwar/  

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Mind Abuse, Media Violence and its Threat to Democracy - book launch

Mon. Oct. 17, 5:30 p.m. ET

Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St, U of T

This new edition of Mind Abuse, written by Rose Dyson, covers developments in the last twenty years, showing how the problem of media violence has grown with each new technological innovation and how relentless marketing victimizes countless young people around the world while the entertainment industry rakes in billions. Rose A. Dyson offers a wake-up call to parents, teachers, health professionals, and policy makers who deal with the aftermath of first-person shooter video gaming and social media abuses, such as cyberbullying, that encourage errant behavior from an early age.

https://mailchi.mp/036bc39bb449/lhae-weekly-9705394 

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Municipal Election Forum

Mon. Oct. 17, 4 - 6 p.m. ET 

We are inviting community members, activists, academics, political representatives, and other stakeholders to talk about the upcoming city elections. The discussion will provide information and raise awareness about the municipal democratic process to support residents’ informed decision-making. The event will feature discussions led by community women leaders, youth activists, and equity activists on key issues faced by racialized low-income immigrant women and community recommendations for equitable and inclusive city policies on: Childcare, Housing, Decent work and Health Services, City social and recreational services, Transportation, Community safety. Hosted by South Asian Women’s and Immigrant Services.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87689170878  

Live stream: https://fb.me/e/1XpaosFWZ 

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Chew on This! 2022

October 17 is the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Each year on this day, our annual Chew on This! campaign mobilizes people from across the country to call for rights-based solutions to end poverty in Canada. Organize your own event or find an event near you.

https://dignityforall.ca/chew-on-this-2022/   

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SIX Degrees: Toronto Talks Election 2022

Tues. Oct. 18, 5 - 8 p.m. ET

Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst St, Toronto,

Join us for an evening of networking with Candidates for Ward 11, drinks, and the opportunity to broaden your political discourse.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/six-degrees-toronto-talks-election-2022-tickets-429218041717 

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Making an effective case for school bus electrification

Wed. Oct. 19, 2 - 4 p.m. ET

Join Équiterre, Green Communities Canada and others for a workshop on the wide-ranging benefits of electric school buses and how to use that evidence to engage policy and decision makers in Canada. 

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pdeihrT4rH9UdWLglmPfdCjvVSweJ8h6t 

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Ecofeminism and Environmental Perspectives 

Wed. Oct. 19, noon - 2 p.m. ET

This presentation will provide an overview of ecofeminism, with a focus on issues, insights and critiques that feminism brings to environmental perspectives and decision-making. With Dr. Heather Eaton

https://www.environment.utoronto.ca/events/ecofeminism-and-environmental-perspectives-dr-heather-eaton

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Is the Liberal-NDP Pact Good for Workers?

Thur. Oct. 20, 7 p.m. ET

With former NDP MLA Marianne Cerilli in Winnipeg, and others. Hosted by Socialist Action Canada. 

https://youtu.be/se_qrgRCAp4  

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Stop the TMX & CGL Pipelines! Protest Action

Thur. Oct. 20, 4 p.m. PT

Intersection of Lougheed Highway + Production Way (Production Way-University Skytrain Station). Burnaby, BC

>From wildfires and severe drought in BC, to devastating floods in Pakistan and hurricanes in the Caribbean, the climate emergency is everywhere. Despite this, the Trudeau gov't continues to press ahead with the construction of the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) pipeline. On top of the environmental disaster it imposes, the TMX pipeline also comes at a huge cost to taxpayers, who are already on the hook for at least $17 B of TMX debt, according to a report just released by economist Robyn Allen and West Coast Environmental Law. Meanwhile, drilling for the Coastal GasLink (CGL) fracked gas pipeline began under the Wedzin Kwa (Morice River) on Wet’suwet’en territory in Northern B.C. in early October. The federal Liberal government and B.C. NDP government continue to give lip service to environmental concerns and Indigenous rights — while pressing ahead with massive resource extraction projects which completely disregard both. Join Climate Convergence as we set up at this busy rush hour Intersection with signs, banners, and hand out information about the TMX and CGL pipelines and fighting back against the climate crisis! System Change Not Climate Change! 

https://www.facebook.com/events/3466876336890647

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The State of Gender and Online Hate in Canada

Thur. Oct 20, noon - 1 ET

The state of online hate as experienced by women and gender-diverse people in Canada, its impacts and the change survivors are calling for.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-state-of-gender-and-online-hate-in-canada-tickets-440555492337

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No Music on a Dead Planet - Music Climate Summit 

Fri. Oct. 21, 9:30 am - 5:30 p.m.

918 Bathurst Street, Toronto

Music Declares Emergency Canada has teamed up with the Canadian Live Music Association and Pop Montreal to launch the first edition of the Canadian Climate Music Summit! Featuring leading music industry executives and artists imagining a greener music industry. Join us for an incredible day of speakers, workshops, panels, presentations, and performances.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/first-ever-canadian-music-climate-summit-tickets-418147208557   

Public Panel and Concert

Fri. Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.

918 Bathurst Street, Toronto

A discussion and concert celebrating the role of music and art in confronting the climate emergency.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/music-climate-summit-evening-panel-and-concert-no-music-on-a-dead-planet-tickets-419322654347?  

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How To Speed Up Zero-Emissions Vehicle Adoption in Your Municipality

Fri. Oct. 21, 1 - 2 p.m.

Any effective municipal response to the climate crisis needs to address transportation as a leading source of emissions, and any sustainable transportation strategy needs to enable the rapid adoption of zero-emission vehicles (ZEV). But how can municipalities leverage their authority and community connections to accelerate ZEV uptake? And which programs and policies should they prioritize?

https://www.sustainabilitynetwork.ca/events/how-to-speed-up-zero-emissions-vehicle-adoption-in-your-municipality

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Peace Brigades International Field Volunteer webinar

Sun. Oct. 23, 2 p.m. ET

Peace Brigades International is a global movement of activists seeking justice and peace, supporting and standing in solidarity with threatened human rights defenders across the world. Hear PBI staff and volunteers speak about what it is like to be a field volunteer/brigadista.

https://pbicanada.org/2022/10/12/pbi-field-volunteer-webinar-sunday-october-23/ 

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Ontarians get to VOTE in Municipal elections! 

Mon. Oct. 24

Even if you aren’t registered, you can bring your ID with proof of residence to your local voting station. Every vote counts!

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http://theenergymix.com/          

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https://www.democracynow.org/    

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