TO. Greenspiration Events - wksps, grants, fun
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sun Jan 10 21:43:12 EST 2010
Toronto Greenspiration Events
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I still have Bicycle Calendars left. You can view them here: http://www.cyclonordsud.org/voir.php?id=291
I'm selling them for $10 (plus $2 shipping, unless I can drop it off
somewhere.)
They're a fundraiser for Bike Lanes on Bloor advocacy.
Send cheques to: Tooker Gomberg Activist Fund
214 Macdonell Ave., Toronto, ON M6R 2A8
Thanks and happy winter cycling!
-angela
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FROM WASTE TO WORTH: THE ROLE OF WASTE DIVERSION IN THE GREEN ECONOMY
INVITATION TO A PUBLIC CONSULTATION SESSION FOR THE TORONTO AREA -
Ontario Waste Diversion Act Review
When: Monday, January 11th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Where: Toronto City Hall, Committee Room #2 (2nd Floor), 100 Queen
Street West
Details: The Waste Diversion Act, 2002 is Ontario 's main legislation
promoting the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste through the
development, implementation and operation of waste diversion programs.
The Ministry of the Environment began a review of the Waste Diversion
Act (WDA) in October 2008. The Minister's Report From Waste to Worth:
the Role of Waste Diversion in the Green Economy, reflects the
feedback from this review, and proposes changes to the waste diversion
framework.
The Ontario Government will be holding public consultation sessions on
the review of Ontario 's Waste Diversion Act.
RSVP: Please RSVP by Tuesday, January 5th via email at moe.wda.review at ontario.ca
or by phone 416-314-4351. Please leave your name, contact number and
email.
We encourage you to read the Minister's report on the WDA review in
advance of the meeting. It can be found at www.ebr.gov.on.ca(EBR #
010-8164).
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Toronto Community Grants
The City of Toronto invites resident, community and charitable and
environmental not-for-profit groups to apply for funds to take on
projects that green our neighbourhoods, reduce emissions, clean our
air and help us adapt to climate change.
Please join us at an information session to learn more about the
grants and how you can apply:
North York Civic Centre, Committee Room 3
Monday, January 11, 2010, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m
Etobicoke Civic Centre, Council Chambers,
Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m
City Hall, Committee Room 2
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m
Scarborough Civic Centre, Committee Rooms 1 and 2
Thursday, January 21, 2010, 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m
For more information, visit www.livegreentoronto.ca
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Toronto Socialist Action presents:
CAPITAL: the foundations of Marxist political economy
A study group presented by Christian Whittall
Tuesday 12 January 7 p.m. Commodities [Capital, vol. 1, ch. 1&2]
use-value and exchange-value ~ dual character of labour ~ relative
form vs. equivalent form of value ~ money form of value ~ process of
exchange
Tuesday 19 January 7 p.m. Money [Capital, vol. 1, ch. 3]
measure of values ~ means of circulation ~ means of payment ~ world
money ~ the transformation of money into capital ~
Tuesday 26 January 7 p.m. Production [Capital, vol. 1, pts. 3&4]
the labour process ~ the valorization process ~ constant and variable
capital ~ rate of surplus-value ~ the working day ~ absolute vs.
relative surplus-value ~
Tuesday 2 February 7 p.m. Accumulation [Capital, vol. 1, pt. 7]
simple reproduction ~ transformation of surplus-value into capital ~
the general law of capitalist accumulation ~ the relative surplus
population ~ concentration and centralization ~ the historical
tendency of capitalist accumulation ~
Tuesday 9 February 7 p.m. Crisis [Capital, vol. 3, pts. 1-3]
cost price and profit ~ the rate of profit ~ equalization of the
general rate of profit ~ the tendency of the rate of profit to fall ~
counteracting factors ~ the business cycle ~
at OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-199
above the St. George Subway Station. Everyone welcome. $4 donation
requested.
SA website: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com SA phone: 416 535
8779 e-mail: christianwhittall at hotmail.com
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POWER OF NONVIOLENCE
Public Forum
Thur. Jan. 14, 7:30 pm, Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (Bloor/St.
George)
Guest Speakers:
Jill Carr-Harris - Non-violence in India
lee Mckenna - Non-violence training in Sudan
Jim Loney - Journey to Peacemaking
Dave Noganosh and Roderick Brereton - Urban Peace-building
NONVIOLENCE IN ACTION TRAINING
Thursdays Jan 21 - Feb. 25, 6:30 – 9:30 p.m., Friends house, 60
Lowther Ave. (Bloor/St. George)
PeaceWorks is initiating this 6-week training series that seeks to
find and nurture the seeds of nonviolence in ourselves and in the
society around us. We will look at personal nonviolence,
interpersonal and community nonviolence, and will study the power of
nonviolent direct action.
For more info and to register for the 6 week series contact:
Lyn Adamson: 416-731-6605
peaceworks at primus.ca
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A fun night of art, music and fundraising for PsychOUT!
Fri. January 15th from 7 - 10pm
at Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor St. West
for PsychOUT: A Conference for Organizing Resistance Against
Psychiatry, being held at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
at the University of Toronto on May 7-8, 2010.
The purpose of this global conference is to provide a forum for
psychiatric survivors, mad people, activists, scholars, students,
radical professionals, and artists from around the world to come
together and share experiences of organizing against psychiatry.
We are proud to feature these outstanding singer-songwriters:
- Social justice activist/feminist Faith Nolan
- Juno Award folksinger Roger Ellis
- Bill Yurick who will sing the anti-Big Pharma song "The Pill Song"
- Parkdale outreach worker/pianist Bob Rose
- and other artists.
Refreshments will be served.
Admission is $10, $5 for unemployed people.
All proceeds are going to fund major expenses of the PsychOUT
Organizing Committee which is organizing PsychOUT Conference.
For more information, please contact: psychart at psychout.com
http://ocs.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/psychout/
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Hanlon Creek Land Defenders Coming to Toronto
Friday, January 15th, at 8:00
Where: Saving GiGi's cafe, 859 Bloor st W, at Ossington
Free, though donations are accepted.
Music to follow!
At dawn one day last summer in Guelph, Ontario, 60 people took over
an industrial construction site and set up a temporary home, complete
with a composting toilet, strawbale first aid tent, lookout tower, and
kitchen, protected by roadblocks and trenches. Within hours, word had
spread far and wide – work on Guelph’s newest and biggest business
park was shut down. A surviving patch of Old Growth forest and a
coldwater stream breathed a sigh of relief, and people from all over
the region came to support what became a 19-day occupation.
This took place around Guelph’s Hanlon Creek, a headwater tributary
of the Grand River. Part of the largest watershed in southern Ontario,
this coldwater creek is threatened by a 675-acre industrial
development called the ‘Hanlon Creek Business Park.’ Led by the City
of Guelph and other powerful development companies, the HCBP has been
subject to years of debate and opposition.
The occupation spoke to many people in ways years of public
organizing had not. Hundreds of people of all ages gave support both
on site and at packed court dates, rallies at city hall, and countless
other ways. When the City of Guelph filed an injunction and $5 million
lawsuit against 7 individuals, a high-profile environmental lawyer
rushed in to engage in a precedent-setting legal battle that continues
today.
Participants in this important struggle are traveling to Toronto on
January 15 . Besides building support to prevent the HCBP in Guelph,
they’re expanding upon a grassroots network of resistance to other
developments as well. Come out for a multimedia presentation and
discussion about protecting the land, stepping up our actions, forging
alliances between Native and non-Native communities, and resistance to
sprawl and industrial growth.
For more information see hcbpoccupation.wordpress.com or email hcbpoccupation at gmail.com
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Second Open Planning Meeting for G8/20 Summit
Tues. January 19, 6:30 pm
489 College Street, 3rd Floor (Centre for Social Justice)
Community based organizers and activists from across Ontario and
Quebec are invited to an open planning meeting focusing on Toronto's
response to
the G8/20 Summits on Jan 19.
The Community Mobilization Network is organizing the community based
outreach, independent media, convergence and days of action leading up
to
and during the G8/20 Summits in Ontario (June 25-27, 2010)
Our approach is to ensure that long-term grassroots organizing in
Toronto remains at the forefront of mobilizations.
The meeting will include Action, Communication, Education/Outreach and
Logistics proposals leading up to and during the G8/20 and community
organizers and activists are encouraged to participate and shape the
mobilization.
People of color, indigenous peoples, women, the poor, the working
class, queer and trans people, disabled people, and artists are
specially encouraged to attend.
To participate in the meeting, to endorse the network, or if you have
questions, please email community.mobilize at resist.ca
To join the announcements list, visit: https://masses.tao.ca/lists/listinfo/community.mobilize
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With Toronto's new green roof bylaw taking effect at the end of the
month, you may be interested in learning more about green roofs.
One-day Green Roof Technology workshop
at the Gladstone Hotel, Queen Street West, Toronto
on February 3, 2010.
Four speakers will cover all areas pertinent to green roofs such as
green roof systems and benefits, load capacity considerations, various
roofing assemblies, wind uplift, fire safety, LEED certification, leak
detection, maintenance and more.
Sign up by January 15, 2010 for the Early Bird Special of $99. Use
promo code, Xero Flor Special.
To register online and for more info, please go to www.xeroflor.ca/workshops.html
or call 289-997-1544.
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Help Save the Toronto Women's Bookstore!
After 36 years of being awesome, the Toronto Women's Bookstore might
have to close its doors. It's true. It's also scary.
The TWB is one of the only non-profit feminist bookstores in North
America. But the TWB isn't just a bookstore. They also run events,
courses, workshops, and provide community resources.
Over the past few years, their sales haven't been enough to sustain
the business and they sent out a message today asking their customers
for donations to keep them afloat.
Well, we can do better than donations. It's christmas-time! Christmas-
time is when we spend more money than we can actually afford so why
don't we just spend that money at the TWB?
Buy all your Christmas/Holiday gifts at the TWB this year, because
buying there now will mean that you can continue to buy there all year
round and not just walk by what used to be the TWB with a sad look on
your face.
www.womensbookstore.com/
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