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the Transformative
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Schedule : Speakers and
Topics March 14
Principles
of Green Economics and Introductions
See: What is Green Economics? by Brian Milani Powerpoint Presentation: Intro to the Green Economy A few key links: Green Enterprise Toronto (GET) Business Alliance for
Local Living Economies (BALLE) Business &
Environment program, York U FES Transformative Learning Centre Institute for Local Self-Reliance (David
Morris) FEASTA: Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (Richard Douthwaite)
March 20 The Built Environment
feature:
Elvira Cordileone, “Eco-Friendly
Designer: Self-sustaining houses are
architect’s goal,” See these other articles:
Breathe By Association / Liefhebber Architects The Shaw House for Seniors (Martin’s strawbale
co-design with Ian Trites) Green
Development Standard, Toronto
Canada Green
Building Council, Toronto Toronto Regional Green Building
Festival Green Building Alliance
Pattern
Language.com (Christopher Alexander)
March 28 Green Work
for Social Justice
John hails from the
Carpenters union and is a former head of the Building Trades Council, where
he was instrumental in advancing green building initiatives. One of Articles:
Links: § Labour
Council of Toronto and York Region
§ Labour
Council Environment Forum § Low Income Energy Network, Ontario § Green Worker Coops (New York City) §
Inner
City Development (Winnipeg) § Blue-Green Alliance: United Steelworkers and Sierra Club
April 4 Sustainable
Transportation with Beth Jones A veteran
activist with a long resume of environmental and social justice involvement,
Beth has also been an innovator, particularly in the realm of sustainable
transportation—co-founding Moving
the Economy, the City of Toronto-supported organization spawned by the
groundbreaking 1998 conference of the same name. Beth’s work at MTE helped
lay the groundwork for a New Mobility Hub in the Toronto region—combining
local and regional transit, bike-sharing, bike lockers, a taxi-hotline,
car-sharing services and more. The Mobility
Hubs have been taken up by Greater Articles & Links
April 11 Community Indicators of Real Wealth with Mini Alakkatusery and Rosalyn
Morrison, A green economy is about much more than
environmental protection. It is about a Articles and
Links ·
Toronto
Star special section: Vital Signs Report 2007, Star Oct. 2, 2007 ·
Toronto’s Vital Signs 2007
Report ·
Ontario
Community Sustainability Report 2007, Pembina
Institute report ·
Linda Baker,
“Real Wealth: The Genuine Progress
Indicator Could Provide an Environmental Measure of the Planet's Health”,
E Magazine, Volume
X, Number III, May-June 1999 ·
Well-Being
Manifesto, New Economics Foundation, Sept. 2004 ·
Neighorhood
Sustainability Indicators Guidebook: How to create neighorhood
sustainability indicators in your neighborhood,
Urban Ecology Coalition, Minneapolis, 1999 · Sustainable Measures (Maureen Hart)
April 18 Network
Economics & the New Electronic Commons with Michael Pilling, High Productivity.ca In the last 15
years, a new sector of largely non-market networked information-sharing and
mass collaboration has arisen in the interstices of the old industrial information
economy. Not only has it provided new possibilities for individual autonomy
and social cooperation, but it also promises more fundamental transformations
of our economy and society. While the
dominant software and electronics giants design for monopoly and
obsolescence, a growing band of merry collaborators, software anarchists and
database developers are pioneering new political and economic
relationships.
Essays / Articles ·
Yochai Benkler, A
Moment of Opportunity and Challenge, Chapter 1
of The Wealth
of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom,
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Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Introduction and
Chapter One “Wikinomics: The Art & Science of
Peer-Production,” from Wikinomics: How Mass
Collaboration Changes Everything (Portfolio/Penguin, 2006) ·
Laurence
Lessig, “Some Like It
Hot: Piracy & culture,” Wired magazine, Issue 12.03 (March 2004) ·
Jeffrey
Chester: “Google:
Search and Data Seizure,” The Nation, Video: Laurence Lessig: How Creativity is Being Strangled by the Law Check Out/
Recommended: Ø Douglas Rushkoff, Open Source
Democracy: How online communication is changing offline politics, Project
Guttenberg e-book Ø What
Is a Wiki? and how to use one, O’Reilly Network Ø Pharos Project wiki, Ø Paul Hawken, Natural Capital Institute, Blessed Unrest video Ø
Wiser Earth
database, Natural Capital Institute
The Soft Energy Path & Community Power with Roberto Garcia,
also
check out these articles:
…and these links:
Energy Action Council of Toronto (EnerACT) WindShare / Toronto
Renewable Energy Cooperative Renewable
Energy Policy Project
May 2 A Local-Sustainable Food System with Mike Schreiner.
Mike’s Powerpoint
Presentation
feature readings: ·
Catherine
Porter, “Food
Growers Target Customers with a Conscience,” ·
Wayne
Roberts, “U of T's
Plate-Side Revolution: Sustainable food initiative could serve up a banquet
of change if campuses use their massive buying clout,” NOW magazine, · David Morris, “Is Eating Local the Best Choice?”, AlterNet, Sept. 2007 ·
Richard
Manning, “The Oil We Eat: Following the Food Chain
Back to Iraq”, Harper's Magazine, February 2004 ·
Wayne
Roberts, “Slaves
to the Sheaf: Blame our addiction to wheat for rising prices, not hungry
3rd-Worlders” NOW magazine, March 2008 ·
Wes
Jackson, “Natural
Systems Agriculture: A Radical Alternative”, The Land Institute website, ·
Rebecca
Spector, “Regaining
Connections Between Farmers and Consumers”, Environmental News Network, ·
A Review of
Canadian Food Safety Policy and Its Effectiveness in Addressing Health Risks for
Canadians, by Rod MacRae and James Alden, report for Pollution Probe, Nov.
2002 Videos: Growing
Green: Oakland’s People’s Grocery (CNBC clip) The Global
Gardener: Bill Mollison on Permaculture
(Tropics, best on principles) Sustainable
Food Action Movies: Store Wars: “Not long
ago in a supermarket not so far away…” The Meatrix:
Take the red pill (don’t worry, it’s organic) The Ground Under Overtown: Permaculture in Links:
May 9 Socially-Responsible
Investment with Susan Henry of
Alterna Savings
Articles & Links ·
Susan
Henry, Good
Practice in Business Development Services: How do we enhance entrepreneurial
skills in Microfinance Institution Clients?, paper presented to
International Microcredit ·
What is Microcredit?,
Wikipedia ·
Marshall Glickman
and Marjorie Kelly, “Working Capital: Can
socially responsible investing make a great green leap forward?”, E
magazine, March/April 2004, vol. XV,
no. 2 ·
Woody Tasch, “Slow
Money: Or, Why It’s Not Just How Much or How Little Money, But the Speed of
Money, that Defines Who We Are as a People and Where We Are Heading as a
Civilization,” More Than Money journal, no. 37 ·
Michael Jantzi Research
Associates, Socially-responsible
Investment in Canada: A market backgrounder, 2003 ·
Studies of Socially-Responsible Investing,
UC-Berkeley ·
The End of Poverty:
Interview with the Grameen Bank’s Muhammad Yunus ·
Social Investment Organization
May 16 Green
Economic Free-for-All with Wayne Roberts and
Greg Allen. This
year’s course closes with a bang, featuring two of Wayne Roberts
is the innovative coordinator of the City of Toronto’s Food Greg Allen—of Sustainable Edge consulting, the Energy Action Council See Greg speak at City
Hall, Dec. 2006
Some articles by · The Way to a City’s Heart is Through Its Stomach: Putting Food Security on the Urban Planning Menu, Toronto Food Policy Council report ·
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“Carbon Tax,
Bring It On: Quebec's bold move leaves Ontario in the dust as transformative
eco tax forces polluters to cough up,” NOW magazine, ·
“Soil is
Our Best Carbon Trapper—if only conventional agriculture weren’t churning it
up,” NOW, Feb. 2007 ·
“Chain
Reaction: Free the economy by breaking the addiction to namebrand
stores,” Now magazine,
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transition to new forms of qualitative development. Regeneration
of communities goes hand-in-hand with ecosystem regeneration. This requires
many new measures of quality, from Genuine Progress Indicators, to
eco-footprints, to life-cycle assessments, to firm sustainability reporting,
to social and health statistics, to community indicators.
Policy Council, two-fisted politics &
economics commentator for NOW magazine, and 
of Toronto (
above), Greg was presented a Lifetime
Achievement Award for his contributions to green building and sustainable
communities at the 2005 at the Toronto Regional Green Building Festival; and
this year the City honoured him with a 
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