Greenspiration News & Events: Building Momentum

Mon Sep 23 15:20:42 UTC 2024

Epic floods are wreaking havoc from Africa to Asia to Europe

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/epic-floods-are-wreaking-havoc-from-africa-to-asia-to-europe/

1 minute video of weather catastrophes in the last week

https://yellowdotstudios.com/september-19-the-extreme-weather-report/

Thanks to Big Oil, the “weather” is reaching dangerous new extremes.

Can We Rapidly Move to 100% Renewables? - Mind-blowing Interview with Stanford's Mark Jacobson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUZs4QDvdi4

Nuclear Is Not The Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change

Interview with UBC academic and author M.V. Ramana. 29 min.

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

Building Momentum to Stop Fracking in BC - 72 min. video with Guy Dauncey 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJgl305Wb3k

Fracking and Health - 7 min. video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3uP5JnPLI0

AI is 'accelerating the climate crisis,' expert warns

If you care about the environment, think twice about using AI. Generative artificial intelligence uses 30 times more energy than a traditional search engine.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240915-ai-is-accelerating-the-climate-crisis-expert-warns

The ABCs of AI and Environmental Misinformation

DeSmog talks with AI researchers about the risks of widespread fake climate content and how to combat it.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/09/18/the-abcs-of-ai-and-environmental-misinformation-climate-disinformation-chat-gpt/

Solidarity with Ukraine: A Feminist Perspective

Ukrainian feminists speak on why the struggle against Russia's imperialist invasion is not only about Ukraine, but also about the future of humanity and should matter to the whole world. 22 min. video. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0er16ufXQxM

Unrigged 

Campaign strategist and community organizer Dave Meslin guides viewers through the quagmire of modern democracy to explore its most pervasive barriers and blind spots. Along the way, he sheds light on simple, creative and tested solutions to help remedy a broken democracy. 6-episode series produced by TVO. Watch them all here.

https://www.unlockdemocracy.ca/unrigged 

How developers will benefit from the Yonge subway route change – and why it’s raising the spectre of the Ford government’s Greenbelt scandal

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1029832704240320/permalink/1632502683973316/

I love bike lanes

Ford Nations plans to bring forward legislation that would block the installation of bike lanes where motor vehicle lanes would have to be reduced. Tell the gov't that: Bike lanes are good for business. They’re good for the environment. They’re good for public and personal health. They give us freedom and mobility. Bike lanes save lives. Add your name today.

https://www.cycleto.ca/ilovebikelanes

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EVENTS

How Positive Tipping Points Change the Climate Story

Mon. Sept. 23, noon ET

Negative tipping points — developments that trigger irreversible destruction of ecological systems — are climate scientists’s nightmare. But there’s another, happier kind of tipping point. In this virtual Covering Climate Now press briefing on Day 1 of New York Climate Week, two of the world’s leading experts unveil a pathbreaking new study that identifies positive climate tipping points: changes in economic or regulatory policy that exponentially accelerate clean energy uptake and fossil fuel phase-out.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/7517266222864/WN_fcO6j1DcS0iHBRbmZbozyg#/registration

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Fossil Fuel Companies Are F%$!ing With Us: Cultural Campaigns Countering Industry MisInformation

Tues. Sept. 24, 11:30 a.m. ET

Oil, gas and coal companies put millions into promoting themselves as part of the climate solutions while they and their PR companies laugh all the way to the bank. Join this webinar hosted by Climate Access to hear about cutting edge communication and cultural advocacy campaigns in the United States and Canada that are taking on fossil fuel greenwashing and the impacts they are having from companies being stripped of B-Corp certifications to the adoption of new policies that are shutting down false advertising and changing the public conversation about oil, gas, coal and climate change.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SnUlh4xfT_iC2dtEQ2GVmA#/registration

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Climate Change: What Can Be Done? & Opportunities for Large-Scale Action

Tues. Sept. 24, 7:30 - 10 p.m. ET

Spirit of York Distillery Co., 12 Trinity Street Toronto

Learn about climate change trends and opportunities for large-scale climate action. $20 includes drink ticket.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/climate-change-what-can-be-done-opportunities-for-large-scale-action-tickets-928728009477 

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Invest in Indigenous Sovereignty: A Panel Discussion with Indigenous Climate Action

Tues. Sept. 24, 2 - 4 p.m. ET

In this panel, hear from Indigenous leaders confronting colonial false solutions, and advocating for strong rights based divestment strategies to the climate crisis. This panel will explore lessons learned from Indigenous activists and land defenders and how Indigenous knowledge, rights and ways of being can be utilized to strengthen climate solutions, actions and simultaneously advance Indigenous-led divestment in relation to global climate action.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/invest-in-indigenous-sovereignty-a-panel-discussion-with-ica-ses-tickets-952675226247

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Collective Healing Conference 2024

Sept. 24 - Oct. 1

Join us to explore insights and practices that inspire personal and collective healing for worldwide change.

https://collectivehealingconference.com/ 

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The Walrus Talks at Home: Rx Belonging

Wed. Sept. 25, 7 p.m. ET

The evidence is clear: social isolation and loneliness can be as harmful to our health as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. But what can we do about it?Imagine if, after a doctor’s visit, you could receive prescriptions for walking groups, cultural programming, and community meals, in addition to medicine. In this virtual talk, you’ll learn about the evidence-based impact of social prescribing and hear how social prescribing is being brought into practice in communities.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-walrus-talks-at-home-rx-belonging-tickets-980260454407  

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Communicating Fire: A Lecture by John Vaillant 

Thur. Sept. 26, 7 - 9 p.m. ET

Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, U of Toronto

John Vaillant will share insights from his latest work, Fire Weather, by unpacking the devastating Fort McMurray wildfires and their connection to our fossil-fueled world. This event offers a unique opportunity to engage with Vaillant’s gripping storytelling as he explores the intersection of climate change and environmental disasters, while addressing the pressing questions of how we communicate these urgent issues today.

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/communicating-fire-a-lecture-by-john-vaillant-tickets-1001639630097 

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Have privilege? Want justice? Learn & take action at Resource Movement’s 2024 Member Gathering

September 27-29

Toronto.

Resource Movement is a community of people with wealth or class privilege working for redistribution of wealth, land, and power - and we want you to join us! Come explore the forces shaping wealth inequality in Canada, reflect on where we fit within struggles for liberation, build skills and knowledge for taking action, and help set priorities for our collective next steps. The event will feature workshops like: ‘Organizing Your Family’, ‘Social Justice Investing’, ‘How Much is Enough?’ and ‘Mutual Aid In Theory & Practice’... plus so much more.

https://www.resourcemovement.org/membergathering 

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Citizens Confront Climate Crisis - Conference

September 27 & 28

In Ottawa AND online

Great speakers share their strategies and campaigns for building an exit ramp from “the highway to climate hell”. Hosted by the Group of 78.

https://group78.org/programs/annual-conference/2024-conference/

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The Big Toronto Bike Ride

Saturday, September 28

Ride with hundreds of other cyclists and support Cycle Toronto's advocacy and education efforts.

https://www.cycleto.ca/btbr_2024

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Atomic Bamboozle - Webinar Discussion Panel

Mon. Sept. 30, 8 p.m. ET

As political pressure mounts to meet net zero carbon goals, the nuclear power industry makes its case for a nuclear “renaissance.” This documentary follows activists as they expose the true costs of the new small nuclear reactor designs. 

Watch the film "Atomic Bamboozle: The False Promise of a Nuclear Renaissance" in advance of the webinar. Free through the month of Sept., hosted by Sierra Club. 

Watch the film here: https://watch.eventive.org/scnuclearfree/play/65df9b811095cc004ea923de 

Register for the webinar on Sept. 30 here: https://sierraclub.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2CNxDUwVSGWZvzFEpIpwEw#/registration 

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Seniors Climate Action Day - Later is too late!

Tues. Oct. 1 

Fossil fuel emissions are causing fires, floods, droughts and heat domes. On October 1, National Seniors Day, the Seniors for Climate project is planning events in over 55 centres across the country calling for:

- Expand renewable sources of energy immediately 

- Stop burning fossil fuels 

- Stop opposing youth and Indigenous climate cases in court. 50+ events across Canada.

Toronto event:

Tuesday Oct. 1, 1:30 University Avenue and Armoury and march en masse to the Church of the Holy Trinity, 1 Trinity Sq. 

Speakers will include: David Philips, David Suzuki, Lilian Alen and more.

If you live outside the Toronto area, please check this link Seniors for Climate - Days of Action Interactive Map for an event near you.

https://seniorsforclimate.org 

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