Greenspiration News & Events: Feed your soul

Mon Oct 20 13:23:49 UTC 2025

GLOBAL

Carbon soars, nature falters

The planet's carbon sinks are failing. Let that sink in. They're absorbing less CO2 than they used to. Ie. Canada’s vast managed forestlands have shifted from a sink into a “flood” of CO2. The oceans are still a sink, but the price is that they're coming more acidic, which is devastating to the creatures that live therein. So here we are, deep in the age of tipping points, vicious cycles and feedback loops. Read the full Cdn. climate newsletter.

https://mailchi.mp/nationalobserver/zef34xyl6i?e=02591b0337

Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries

and saved hundreds of billions of dollars

https://www.carbonbrief.org/iea-renewables-have-cut-fossil-fuel-imports-for-more-than-100-countries/

Supports for Climate Trauma and Ecological Distress - The Unthinkable Resource Hub 

https://www.unthinkable.earth/resource-hub

The climate movement’s biggest weakness

The most effective way to avert catastrophe: People in wealthier countries have to eat more plant-based foods and less red meat, poultry, and dairy. Such a shift in diets — combined with reducing global food waste and improving agricultural productivity — could cut annual climate-warming emissions from food systems by more than half.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rich-must-eat-less-meat-120000582.html

Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds

The global production of food is responsible for a third of all planet-heating gases emitted by human activity, with the use of animals for meat causing twice the pollution of producing plant-based foods, a major new study has found.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/13/meat-greenhouses-gases-food-production-study

Movies that feed your soul - top 10 picks

https://socialmovementtechnologies.org/campaign-support/great-movies/

CANADA

Avi Lewis for Leader

https://lewisforleader.ca/

Canadian Political Comedy Sketches

https://www.youtube.com/22minutes

ONTARIO

Ontario Must Get with the Energy Times - op ed by Angela Bischoff

https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-hamilton-spectator/20251016/281715505829411

Reverse the decision on speed cameras in Ontario - petition

https://www.change.org/p/reverse-the-decision-on-speed-cameras-in-ontario

Fact Sheet: Ontario’s Speed Safety Camera Program

How Speed Safety Cameras Save Lives

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uIFGldEkCQGy25o2NKDTavCGhoM-qG4efhpg5LijcOs/

TORONTO

Toronto slashes single-use waste by third, plans to expand bylaw

Toronto says a city bylaw introduced last year has cut disposable items such as cups, bags and utensils, by 32%. Next, the city will expand its Single-Use and Takeaway Items Reduction Strategy and Bylaw to large events, sports venues and restaurants that still rely on throwaway containers for dine-in service. Under the next phase, these businesses could be required to use reusable dishware.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/15/news/toronto-single-use-item-bylaw

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EVENTS

Speed Cameras Save Lives - Ontario Day of Action 

Mon. Oct. 20

Ontario Premier Doug Ford wants to remove all speed cameras even though they help prevent speeding and save lives. The safety of our children should never be compromised. We need to prioritize their lives over our convenience. By reinstating speed cameras, we are taking a proactive approach to safeguard our streets and ensure our children can walk, bike, and play without fear. Join an event. Send a letter to your MPP. Sign the petition to save speed cameras.

https://speedcamerassavelives.ca/

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Protect Our Streets. Uphold the Charter. Defend your Bike Rights.

Tues. Oct. 21, 5:30 p.m. ET

361 University Ave (north of Queen)

Rally and ride to Queens Park for 6 p.m.

The Ford government continues undermining local democracy and attacking our safety and our rights.

Join us on the one year anniversary of Bill 212 and tell the province to stop playing politics.

Ride with us to Queen's Park or meet us there!

https://www.cycleto.ca/oct_21_rally

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Planet In Focus International Environmental Film Festival

Oct. 21 - 26

Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor St. W., Toronto

https://planetinfocus.org/2025-festival-lineup/

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Invasive Species Prevention in Lake Huron

Tues. Oct 21, noon ET

Learn about key aquatic invasive species threatening Lake Huron and their impacts on the food web. Hear how the Great Lakes Spawning Whitefish and Invasive Mussels (SWIM) project is addressing the impact of invasive mussels on the Lake Whitefish population. Also find out the latest updates on sea lamprey management in Lake Huron. 

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/kfy7YJ_LRGKCZVTTL8M6Yg#/registration 

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Green Burial Information Session

Tues. Oct. 21, 7 - 9 p.m. ET

Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave, Toronto

Join Green13 for a panel of end-of-life experts presenting options that honor our loved ones and the planet. Please RSVP to Ridley Funeral Home by phone 416-259-3705 or email TammyHepditch at ridleyfuneralhome.com.

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Intro to Project FeederWatch: For love of birds and community science

Wed. Oct. 22, 2 - 3:30 p.m. ET

Brentwood Public Library, 36 Brentwood Road North, Toronto

If you love birds, enjoy birding, or simply being out in nature, you're invited to participate in a nation-wide community science project called Project FeederWatch!

https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEVT574191&R=EVT574191

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Toronto Electricity Future - nuclear/gas or renewables?

Wed. Oct. 22, 7 - 8 p.m. ET

The province is proposing to meet Toronto's future electricity needs with more high cost, polluting nuclear and gas power. But Torontonians and Toronto City Council wants more renewables. Learn more here. To get the zoom link, email: 

newsletter at climatefast.ca 

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Active Hope Small Group

Wednesdays 7 - 9:15 p.m. ET

Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregationm 310 Danforth Ave., Toronto

Concerned about wildfires? Multiple International Crises? AI taking over our future? Join Dr Nate Charach and Neighbourhood’s Gwen Schauerte in a small group that will empower you to engage in meaningful action to address the challenges of our time. Based on Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects while integrating land-based healing practices and psychotherapeutic principles. You will connect to your inner self, to others in the group and to the greater natural world, deepening your experience of community.

Oct 22: The Stories Of Our Time

Nov 12: Coming From Gratitude

Nov 19: Honouring Our Pain

Dec 3 Truth Mandala 

Dec 10: Shifting Our Perceptions Part

Jan 7: Shifting Our Perceptions Part II

Jan 21: Going Forth

To register or learn more, email info at psychiatree.ca 

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Big Oil’s Playbook Exposed

Thur. Oct. 23, 7. - 8 p.m. ET

Join our one-hour webinar revealing the fossil fuel industry’s hidden tactics and how to recognize them. What you’ll learn:

- The hidden ways industry influences politics, media, and even education.

- The tactics companies use to influence government decisions, including a detailed examination of select strategies.

- How to spot fossil fuel tactics in our daily lives. 

The fossil fuel industry has been running the same plays for decades. On October 23, we’ll expose them and give you the tools to call them out.

https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/179460/petition/1

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Climate Sanctuary

Thur. Oct. 23, 7 - 8:30 p.m. ET

In extraordinary times we can create a sanctuary with community FREE peer-to-peer emotional support for people working in service to CLIMATE SAFETY. No prep, no advice, come as you are. If you need place for sanctuary, relief, comfort and with-nessing... during the many climate events this season. Please join us in creating space for what is most needed here and now for each other in extraordinary times.

https://www.kadycowan.com/climatesanctuary.html 

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Been Here Stay Here 

Thur. Oct. 23, 9 p.m. ET

Paradise Theatre, 1006 Bloor St W, Toronto

Been Here Stay Here is a quiet, immersive portrait of a place long used as a symbol, but rarely heard on its own terms. Set on Tangier Island — a centuries-old evangelical fishing community in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay — the film breaks from conventional climate storytelling. There are no experts, voiceovers, or statistics. Been Here Stay Here invites audiences to sit with the lived reality of a community facing the slow erosion of its land. A Planet in Focus Film Co-sponsored by Greenpeace.

https://www.goelevent.com/planetinfocus/e/BeenHereStayHere 

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Rendezvous with Madness

Oct. 23 - Nov. 2

Rendezvous with Madness is the first in the world and largest arts and mental health festival in North America. Using art as the entry point to illuminate and investigate the realities and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction, Rendezvous With Madness spotlights the human capacity for endurance in the face of great challenges. Rendezvous With Madness continues to be a platform for artists, whose lived experience expand our understandings of living with mental health and addiction. 

https://workmanarts.com/rendezvous-with-madness/ ??

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Northlore - virtual film screening

Fri. Nov. 24, 10 p.m. ET

Weaving animation and live action, Northlore explores the mystical stories and connections forged between the people and wildlife in the North of Canada. With each new story, the film celebrates the transformative power of the human spirit when confronted with the wilderness.

https://westcoastclimateaction.ca/northlore-film-screening/

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We're Coming for You and Your Rotten System

Sat. Oct. 25, 7 p.m. ET

Friends House, 60 Lowther, Toronto

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to welcome longtime organizer Jonathan Rosenblum back to Toronto for the launch of his brand new book We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System! - a blueprint for twenty-first-century socialists, a counterpoint to the common strategies of mainstream progressives today.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/panitchschool/1822920 

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For more Toronto events, check out:

https://showuptoronto.ca/ 

For the best Canadian climate and energy news, visit and subscribe to the Energy Mix newsletter.

http://theenergymix.com/ 

Democracy Now Daily Show - global peace, justice and enviro news

https://www.democracynow.org/ 

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