Greenspiration News & Events: New World Disorder

Mon Feb 3 20:49:34 UTC 2025

CANADA and US

Donald Trump’s Tariff-Mongering Has Unified Canada. He Has No Idea What He Has Unleashed.

The right choices now will put us on a path to a green economy and healthy, caring, resilient communities.

https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/donald-trumps-tariff-mongering-has 

This Hour Has 22 Minutes on the Trade War

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYUI4hu950w

The most vicious assault on climate action we’ve ever seen

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/27/opinion/Trump-climate-action-Paris-accord-EVs

The New World Disorder of Trump - by Charlie Angus 

MAGA might like chaos, but capitalists don't. Canada. True. North. Strong. Free.

https://charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-new-world-disorder-of-trump

Sign the Pledge for Canada

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/pledge-for-canada-petition

"We're going to stand up to a bully" | Mark Carney on President Trump’s Canada trade tariffs

BBC interview: Carney positions carbon border adjustments and clean economy investments as part of the response to Trump tariffs and talks about reaching to “like-minded” countries across the rest of the G7 and beyond. ±11 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV101ei8mu8

ENERGY

Atomic Reaction - a CBC doc

Canada supplied uranium for atomic bombs in WWII — 80 years later, the cleanup continues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jC1DPOYoQ0

Indigenous nations say no to more nuclear energy

https://campaign-statistics.com/browser_preview/dRmnzO-xnjDxqB-1ro09x

DeepSeek Shakes the Stupidity of the Tech-Industrial Complex - by Bill McKibben

DeepSeek, a Chinese-based AI technology that uses just a tenth of the power of US AI programs, shows how the fossil fuel and nuclear industries were using the AI boom as an excuse for expansion. DeepSeek's announcement hammered the shares of uranium producers and gas pipeline operators alike.

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/we-interrupt-the-ongoing-crisis-for

The Scientists Who Alerted us to the Dangers of Radiation

Watch the webinar recording with authors Ian Fairlie and Cindy Folkers. “The Scientists Who Alerted us to the Dangers of Radiation” profiles 23 radiation scientists over the previous half-century, who revealed that radiation risks were higher than thought, but who were victimized by governments and the nuclear establishments for doing so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyUjtpysc2Y

Wind Farm in a War Zone: Vestas Announces 384 MW for Project in Ukraine

It takes 100 times more missiles to destroy a wind farm compared to a single gas plant, proving their durability and importance in challenging environments

https://www.theenergymix.com/turbines-in-a-war-zone-vestas-announces-384-mw-for-wind-farm-in-ukraine/

Texas' Renewable Energy Boom: A $50 Billion Economic Engine

https://www.environmentenergyleader.com/stories/texas-renewable-energy-boom-a-50-billion-economic-engine,63095

Global Green Energy Trade Will Continue Without Trump, Bypass the U.S.

“The world is undergoing an energy transition that is unstoppable” UN climate secretary Simon Stiell

https://www.theenergymix.com/global-green-energy-trade-will-continue-without-trump-bypass-the-u-s-analysts-say/

Welcome to the Era of Energy Disruption

Brilliant 13 min. TEDx video about the transformative impact of solar, batteries, and energy intelligence driving change in the energy sector globally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXwGvLj4rak

Why women are leading the climate fight

Women are 2.5 times more likely than men to respond to climate messaging and to do something. And the uptake of renewable energy is unstoppable.

https://www.corporateknights.com/leadership/why-women-are-leading-the-climate-fight/

ONTARIO

Four questions about energy for Ontario’s political leaders

Send your own message: will they phase out gas? Triple wind and solar? Support east-west expansion of the electricity grid? Call for an OEB hearing to review the financial prudency of current nuclear expansion plans?

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/election-questions/

Ford, more years? How Ontario’s environment fared under the Progressive Conservatives

With an election campaign officially underway, we take stock in the Doug Ford government’s big moves on the environment file

https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-election-2025-environmental-policy/

Cooperate for Canada

Canadians urgently need a unified, progressive choice in the next federal election. To make this happen, the progressive parties must adopt a cooperative approach — rather than competing with each other.

https://cooperateforcanada.ca/

Pledge to unite your vote behind a single "Unity Candidate", identified by Not One Seat as best positioned to defeat Ford's PCs in your Toronto riding.

https://www.notoneseat.ca/unitethevote

TORONTO

Toronto City Charter Lifts Off! 

https://www.chartercitytoronto.ca/

Find where your Toronto City Councillor stands on climate policy

https://votingrecords.climatefast.ca/

Vibrant eco-conscious foodie, ageless elder seeks shared home in Toronto's downtown core

https://www.facebook.com/PeiCzech/posts/pfbid082kVCgDakgBQ4TB8wGsmaheoowHJCMoUcvCCEgFskxs2KUWoPCgzHzs2xs8SaaLol

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EVENTS

Canada's Nuclear Waste Burial & the NWMO | Nuclear Waste Online 2025

Tues. Feb. 4, 7 p.m. ET

An overview and update on the Nuclear Waste Management Organization's efforts to site a deep geological repository for all of Canada’s high level nuclear fuel waste. In addition to hearing from grassroots groups, the webinar will provide an update on the NWMO program and activities, including their conceptual plans for transportation, nuclear fuel waste transfers, and the deep geological repository (DGR) itself.

https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LPkPdDIaTa69JZp4ez6c6g#/registration

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The Best Climate Activist is a Good Urban Planner 

Tues. Feb. 4, 11 a.m. ET

With Hélène Chartier, Director of Urban Planning and Design at C40 Cities, where she leads efforts to help cities accelerate the adoption of sustainable, resilient urban planning policies and design practices. She was Former Advisor to the Mayor of Paris.

https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_kvLYsIFiSsigpS7P5PiWPQ#/registration 

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Meet – Up: Motor Vehicles Task Force

Thur. Feb. 6, 7 p.m. ET and

Sat. Feb. 8, noon ET

No More Noise Toronto (NMNT) is organizing meet-ups to discuss noise issues in the GTA. Motor Vehicle vanity noise has gotten so bad that many of us are hating being in our homes and our health is suffering. This noise is also illegal which why this can be a task force with deadlines and milestones. Having a well thought out plan and working together we can move this from the municipal to the provincial level and even look at other ways of reducing the noise. 

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/xDQBdrr2RLSFLDJoAgLVkA

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Envisioning EnvironMental Wellness

Fri. Feb. 7, 12:30 - 6:30 p.m. ET 

Virtual and in-person at the University of Toronto, Trinity College

Are you concerned about our collective planetary future? How is that affecting your emotional health? Join us for an ecological health and psychological resiliency symposium.

The Integrated Sustainability Initiative of Trinity College and the School of the Environment is partnering with the Buddhism Psychology and Mental Health program to address pressing issues of climate anxiety, ecoanxiety, critical hope and nature deficit. Experts in the field will discuss these topics with student environmental advocates.

https://www.trinity.utoronto.ca/sustainability/environmental-wellness/

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Get on the bus to Defend Public Healthcare

Sat. Feb. 8, noon ET

Sylvia Jones' Office, 180 Broadway, Orangeville

Ontario’s public healthcare has never been in such chaos and crisis — privatization is expanding while critical funding for hospitals, nurses, and essential services continues to be neglected. The Greater Toronto, Grey Bruce and Brampton Caledon Health Coalitions are calling on all concerned citizens to join us in protest against the ongoing destruction of our healthcare system by the Doug Ford government. Make your voice heard. Patients, workers, and communities across Ontario deserve better. Healthcare belongs to the people—not private corporations!

BOOK A SEAT ON THE BUS from Toronto to Orangeville, leaving at 10 am from 25 Cecil Street, and returning about 3 pm.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSetG9vqcXVPGuwICtAUJpI0iiHqLw-gggh-4CK961Gj35g2ow/viewform

Info: greatertorontohc at gmail.com

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