[Sust-mar] Upcoming Events: Environmental Commissioner this Th. and Peace & Climate Action this Fri. + More

[Tamara Lorincz]

Upcoming events - please circulate. Thank you!

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CANADA'S ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSIONER THIS TH. - HALIFAX

Who Ya Gonna Call? Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable
Development Gets Answers On Water, Climate Change, Oil Spills .
WHAT: Public Presentation and Q&A with Scott Vaughn, Commissioner of the
Environment and  Sustainable Development and Leaders from the NS
Environmental Community
WHEN: Thursday, December 16th, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
WHERE: Room 104, Weldon Law Building, 6061 University Ave., Halifax, NS
SPONSORS: Nova Scotia Environmental Network, Canadian Environmental Network,
and Office of the Auditor General of Canada For more information or to
arrange an interview, please contact Gretchen Fitzgerald, Chair, Nova Scotia
Environmental Network at 902-444-3113 or gretchenf at sierraclub.ca.
Please go here to read the report: 
www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201012_e_34435.html


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PEACE & CLIMATE ACTION THIS FRIDAY - NEW GLASGOW 

"Minister Peter MacKay: Don't be a Grinch and Steal Our Future"
Peaceful vigil outside Defence Minister MacKay's Constituency Office
980 East River Road
New Glasgow
Friday, December 17
12:00-1:00 pm

A vigil during this season of peace & goodwill to tell Minister MacKay:
1. Cancel the $16 billion stealth fighters, invest in child care and
education 2. End the war in Afghanistan, bring the troops home 3. Stop oil
subsidies & exploration in Gulf of St. Lawrence, take action on climate
change 

Join us in our peaceful Christmas vigil to urge Minister MacKay to not to be
a Grinch and steal our future. Come to tell the Minister not to waste our
tax dollars on stealth fighters and subsidies for oil & gas companies. We
need urgent action on poverty and climate change. The federal government
should be investing our tax dollars in child care, education, humanitarian
aid, and renewable energy - a sustainable future. All welcome. Please bring
your children and Santa hats. We will be bringing "good tidings" to Minister
MacKay, holding a holiday peace banner outside his office, and singing
climate change carols and the song "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch".

Organized by the Halifax Peace Coalition and endorsed by the Nova Scotia
Voice of Women for Peace.
For more information, please visit www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca or call
902-443-2423 or email: hfxpeace at chebucto.ca


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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CAUCUS MEETING & HOLIDAY SOCIAL - HALIFAX NSEN EEC
December meeting will be held at Saint Mary's University, Room 213 in the
Atrium Building, from 2pm-4pm.  
The plan  to have a short meeting including a roundtable and any
time-sensitive agenda items, following which Heidi Verheul, Sierra Club's
Environmental Education Coordinator, is going to do a presentation on EE in
the classroom. Remember to bring a mug!
Lori Anne Hilchey,
NSEN EEC Caucus Chair
Coordinator Atlantic Science Links Association (ASLA)
Email:   sits at dal.ca


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EAC'S FOOD ACTION COOKING SERIES - HALIFAX	
The Food Action Committee of the Ecology Action Centre is hosting a winter
edition of the Seasonal Cooking Class Series in January 2011 and gift
certificates are available! You'll get three nights of terrific instruction,
delicious food, and good fun-plus you'll go home with recipes! Dates: "All
About the Artichoke" on January 13th, "Winter Classics" on the 20th, and
it's "All About Appetizers" on the 27th.
http://www.ecologyaction.ca/content/upcoming-events


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THEATRE FOR LIVING  2011 - TATAMAGOUCHE
January 28-30
At the Tatamagouche Centre: http://tatacentre.ca/programs/details/1555
A vibrant popular theatre technique developed by David Diamond (Headlines
Theatre, Vancouver, BC) based on Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.
Theatre for Living is theatre for social change and used in community-based
cultural work to address issues such as violence and suicide prevention,
anti-racism, bullying and community development.  Blurring the lines between
actor and audience the community comes together to tell their common story;
a story perhaps unrealized that is released through body and voice.
Discover and apply this technique using games and exercises as the
"language" through which participants express their stories, explore moments
of conflict, and discover solutions.
Leadership: Courtney Siebring,  Courtney is a Dell'Arte International School
of Physical Theatre graduate & studied under David Diamond.  She's an actor,
mask-maker, writer, & workshop instructor throughout Canada & the US. 


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YURT WORKSHOPS - WOLFVILLE
January 2011
Yurt Workshops with sustainable wood by Little Foot Yurts details here:
http://www.lfy.ca/yurt_building_workshop/index.html 


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GET GROWING GARDENING WORKSHOPS - NEW GERMANY
A series of workshops on gardening by Windhorse Farm in New Germany. Details
are here: http://www.windhorsefarm.org/pages/programs-events.php *Amazing
organic garden and sustainable woodlot retreat.


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TOWARDS A COASTAL STRATEGY - HALIFAX
Thursday, January 6 - As a coastal province, we have opportunities and
challenges ahead. Learn about the priority issues and progress towards a
Coastal Strategy in Nova Scotia. To prepare for the discussion, you may want
to look at www.gov.ns.ca/coast for background materials. Presentation by
staff of this project from within NS government. 7:30 p.m. at the NS Museum
of Natural History, Summer St., Halifax. Halifax Field Naturalists: 
http://halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca/hfnWP/?page_id=87 


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1-minute flash video and help sharks and sea turtles in Canada!

Happy Holidays!

Tamara

Tamara Lorincz
BA, BComm, MBA, LLB
55 Willowbend Court
Halifax, NS CANADA B3M 3L3
Phone: (902) 443-2423
Cell: (902) 478-1379
tlorincz at dal.ca
ECJ: http://www.ecojustice.ca
GN: http://www.space4peace.org/
HPC: http://www.halifaxpeacecoalition.ca/ 
NSEN: http://www.nsen.ca
"A better world is possible"

"Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary
spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility
to poverty, racism, and militarism." - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

"Without a doubt, military spending represents the single most significant
perversion of worldwide priorities known today." Former President of Costa
Rica, Oscar Arias, 1999