Greenspiration News & Events: Together for Nature

[Angela Bischoff - OCAA]

INTERNATIONAL

 

The Biggest Lie Ever Told Is Only Four Words Long

https://thebiggestlie.wedonthavetime.org/

 

Facts on the ground

Two things matter now: votes, and solar panels. (And wind turbines. And batteries) By Bill McKibbon

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/facts-on-the-ground

 

Xiamen Bicycle Skyway: Bringing Biking Back to the People

https://urbannext.net/xiamen-bicycle-skyway/

 

Even better than the E.V. is the e-bike, which I think may turn out to be the transformative invention of our time on Earth

https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/tour-de-planet

 

An Ordinary Insanity: Daniel Ellsberg on the Nuclear Threat - 29 min. documentary

https://www.anordinaryinsanity.com/screenings

 

 

CANADA

 

Canada Now More Than 20 Years Behind Its 2030 Emissions Target, With Net-Zero Nowhere in Sight

Higher emissions are a policy choice.

https://www.theenergymix.com/canada-is-now-more-than-20-years-behind-its-2030-target-with-net-zero-nowhere-in-sight/

 

Carney's Investment Summit pitches pipelines, nuclear plants, railways, AI data centres

https://www.theenergymix.com/250-elite-investors-167-pitches-some-clean-economy-projects-make-the-cut-as-canada-investment-summit-convenes-in-toronto/

 

Stop Canada from gutting environmental protections - send a message

https://davidsuzuki.org/action/stop-canada-from-gutting-environmental-protections/

 

Message your MP and tell them to invest your taxpayer dollars in renewable energy solutions instead of a new bitumen pipeline

Real nation-building projects should advance climate objectives, protect nature, uphold Indigenous rights and create long-term prosperity.

https://davidsuzuki.org/action/tell-your-mp-stop-fuelling-canadas-climate-crisis-with-new-pipeline/

 

 

ONTARIO 

 

Ontario by-elections show first-past-the-post is failing voters

https://www.fairvote.ca/09/09/2026/ontario-by-elections-show-first-past-the-post-is-failing-voters/

 

Tell Doug Ford to lift Ontario’s offshore wind ban and put our Great Lakes winds to work.

https://www.cleanairalliance.org/ontario/

 

Reject the Permits: No Water-Taking for Bottling - send your letter - Water is for life, not profit.

https://www.waterwatchers.ca/rejectwhitewolfpttw

 

 

TORONTO

 

Hands off our bike lanes! Send your letter to Ford

https://www.cycleto.ca/fight_trump

 

______________________

______________________

 

EVENTS

 

The Better Ideas Show

Mon.-Tues. Sept. 14-15, starting 10 a.m. ET

Livestreamed on the newly-launched Energy Mix YouTube channel

On September 14-15, while Prime Minister Mark Carney's Canada Investment Summit is under way in Toronto, we’ll be a few blocks away, hosting a livestream with news interviews featuring investors, entrepreneurs, policy- and decision-makers, and advocates who are working to build Canada’s clean climate economy from the ground up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7MCzJvJCe8 

 

______________________

______________________

 

A Prophetic Voice: An Evening with Rev. Maggie Helwig

Tues. Sept. 15, 5:30 - 8 p.m. ET

348 Danforth Ave. Toronto

Join us for an interfaith conversation on homelessness, housing, dignity, and community. Crisis in Our City is hosting this public conversation with Rev. Maggie Helwig. The event will focus on encampments, unsheltered homelessness, shelter and housing policy, and the need for responses rooted in dignity and community. The conversation will invite participants to look beyond the common portrayal of encampments as only a problem or tragedy. Encampments demonstrate the urgent need for safe, accessible and permanent housing. They can also be understood as responses to a shelter and housing system that fails to meet people’s needs. The conversation will ask: What can the experience of people living in encampments teach us about the issues with current shelter and housing policies?

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/a-prophetic-voice-an-evening-with-rev-maggie-helwig-tickets-1998229107050 

 

______________________

______________________

 

Together for Nature Tour - amplifying the voices of Indigenous artists, youth and land protectors inspiring change!

Tues. Sept. 15 in Ottawa at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 

Wed. Sept. 16 in Toronto at the Knox Presbyterian Church

Thur. Sept. 17 in Kitchener at the St. Matthews Centre

Fri. Sept.18 in London at the Metropolitan United Church

The Together for Nature Tour is an opportunity for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples to come together to raise our voices for nature and all our relations through story and song. Ontario Nature and Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence (LAND), invite you to hear from Okiniwak, Here We Stand, and the Friends of the Attawapiskat River, who are travelling from Northern Ontario to visit communities across Southern Ontario to share their stories. Joining us on tour is celebrated Inuk singer-songwriter Susan Aglukark.

https://naturesdefence.ca/campaigns/together-for-nature-tour/

 

______________________

______________________

 

Earth's Greatest Enemy - Screening

Wed. Sept. 16, 2 p.m. ET

New Horizons Tower, 1140 Bloor St W, Toronto

What is the climate cost of war? Join Seniors for Climate Action Now! (SCAN!) Climate and Militarism Working Group and New Horizons for Climate Action, in partnership with CODEPINK, for a screening of Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a powerful antiwar documentary by U.S. journalist and filmmaker Abby Martin. The film examines the enormous environmental impact of the U.S. military—one of the world’s largest consumers of fossil fuels. As military budgets and weapons production rise worldwide, Earth’s Greatest Enemy makes the urgent case that militarism and war must be addressed as part of meaningful climate action.

https://www.codepink.org/egetoronto916 

 

______________________

______________________

 

City Elections 101

Wed. Sept. 16, noon ET

Progress Toronto will be working hard to elect more progressive municipal leaders at City Council and the Toronto District School Board. Join us to learn more about the city election, what’s at stake, and our plan to win.

https://www.progresstoronto.ca/election-training-series-sep-16-2026

 

______________________

______________________

 

Beyond the Smoke: Fighting the Flames of Climate Change

Fri. Sept. 18, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. ET

Friends House, 60 Lowther, U of Toronto

A double-feature highlighting the human stories, ecological costs, and critical response strategies driving Canada’s wildfires. Screening of 2 films: REIGNITION: Bringing Good Fire Back to the Land (2026) (10:29) and B.C. is Burning (2025) (47:08)

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-the-smoke-fighting-the-flames-of-climate-change-tickets-1998556207416 

 

______________________

______________________

 

Park(ing) Day - Toronto though it is a global initiative

September 18-20 weekend

Turn a parking lot or parking space into a Café, Beach, park, bar-b-q, outdoor classroom, yoga class, picnic, live music performance, etc.

More ideas here:

https://www.parkingdaytoronto.ca/ideas  

 

______________________

______________________

 

Wind Turbine Tour & Climate Workshop: Science Meets Action

Sat. Sept. 19, 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET

Exhibition Place, Toronto

An unforgettable experience where the science of climate change meets action. Take a tour of Toronto's only wind turbine and see the power of wind energy. Next, dive into a Climate Fresk workshop where you'll learn about climate change and discover how renewable energy are part of the solution.

https://luma.com/nr6jmzhy

 

______________________

______________________

 

The Big Toronto Bike Ride 2026

Sat. Sept. 19

Join Cycle Toronto for a slow roll through Toronto's ravines and paths along the Toronto Loop trail. This year's ride offers 3 distances (40 km, 20 km, 12 km), all ending together for dinner and celebration at Evergreen Brick Works. This is more than a ride. It’s an essential fundraising event to power our work to keep fighting for a more livable city and foster a culture of cycling.

https://www.cycleto.ca/2026btbr  

 

______________________

______________________

 

U of T Microplastics Conference

Sat. Sept. 19, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. ET

Bahen Centre for Information Technology, U of T

Meet students, researchers, and community members moving beyond small fixes toward a grand solution to rethink plastics at this student-led conference. Free to attend, open to all.

https://www.uoftmicroplastics.ca/

 

______________________

______________________

 

 

Seniors' Climate Witness—a week of public witness and nonviolent action in Ottawa

September 19–23

We're calling on the Government of Canada to reject new fossil fuel pipelines, uphold its climate commitments, respect Indigenous rights, and protect a livable future for our children, grandchildren, and future generations. Seniors Climate Witness are also doing many important nonviolent actions. Please follow on Facebook: 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61593905212099 and for more information, please contact organizer Michael Polanyi: mailto:michaelfdpolanyi at gmail.com

 

______________________

______________________

 

Cross-Country Day of Action for Migrant Rights

Sun. Sept. 20

Across Canada

Migrants make Canada work. We care for children and elders, grow food, build homes, and keep communities running. But the government is pushing migrants out instead of giving people equal rights. Permits are expiring, being refused, cancelled, or made impossible to renew. Refugees are under attack. People are being deported. Families are being separated. Those who remain are forced to work with fewer rights and more fear. At the same time, working class people are being squeezed by high rents, low wages, service cuts, and insecurity. Migrants are being blamed for a crisis created by underfunding, privatization, corporate greed, and governments that put the rich first. Blaming migrants does not lower rents, raise wages, or fix healthcare. It divides workers and lets bosses, landlords, corporations, and governments off the hook. Migrants are not the cause of the crisis. Migrants are part of the solution. The federal government is deciding the future of immigration: who gets permanent residency, who remains temporary, and who is pushed out. On September 20, one day before Parliament returns, join people across the country taking action to demand:

- Status for all: Permanent resident status for migrants already here, and permanent resident status on arrival for migrants coming in the future.

- Renew permits: Automatically renew expired and expiring work and study permits, restore status, and ensure no one is pushed into exploitation or deportation.

- End exploitation: End employer-tied permits. Ensure equal labour rights, safe housing, healthcare, services, and real enforcement against abusive bosses.

- Stop deportations: End removals, detention, family separation, and attacks on refugees. Find an action near you or organize one

https://migrantrights.ca/events/sep20/  

 

Toronto: Rally and March

Sun. Sept. 20, 2 p.m.

Christie Pits (Christie and Bloor)

https://migrantrights.ca/events/sep20/  

 

______________________

______________________

 

Join us for a peaceful rally #1000Women for "Care Not Warfare: Cut Military Spending" at the Prime Minister’s Office in Ottawa

Mon. Sept. 21, 4-5 p.m. 

80 Wellington St., Ottawa

To mark the United Nation’s International Day of Peace.

Help us oppose the Carney government's plan to increase military spending from $65 billion in 2025 to $150 billion by 2035 while cutting funding to other programs for women, environment & climate change, fisheries & oceans, etc. Organized by the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (VOW), the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-Canada (WILPF) and the Raging Grannies Ottawa. Part of our campaign #1000women+ for #CareNotWarfare. Find out more at vowpeace.org and https://wilpfcanada.ca/

 

______________________

______________________ 

 

More Toronto events 

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/ 

 

Tooker Tapes Archive Project - Youtube Playlist

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3IwhNn-WrINTQz2fBNayDoBWLW0y59le

 

_______________________

_______________________

 

Submissions, subscribes, unsubscribes, and comments: mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org 

 

Share this newsletter on social media using this link: http://greenspiration.org/news-events/ 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://list.web.net/pipermail/greenspirationto-l/attachments/20260915/5ced71b5/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 54217 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://list.web.net/pipermail/greenspirationto-l/attachments/20260915/5ced71b5/attachment-0001.jpg>