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Tuesday, May
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100 Queen Street West
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in Food, Housing and
Lifestyles
Join the
Coalition for a Green Economy as we present a panel discussion on key sectors
of the green economy.
FOOD--Mike Schreiner
Mike is an
award-winning social entrepreneur who has recently joined Local Flavour Plus as Vice President
after 10 years as the co-founder of WOW Foods,
a Toronto-based home delivery service for organic food that aims to build a
healthy food system by linking consumers with local organic farmers. Mike was
also the founder of the LETS Community Shared Agriculture project which worked
to link a local organic farm with members in Toronto using a local currency and
work share arrangements, as well as the co-founder of Earthdance
Organics, an organic food service kitchen and bakery.
HOUSING--Mark Salerno, MRAIC
Mark Salerno is the District
Manager, GTA for Canada Mortgage and
Housing Corp. (CMHC). He is responsible for building relationships
with housing industry stakeholders and sharing CMHC's
varied housing expertise in an effort to foster the creation of sustainable
housing and communities. Prior to joining CMHC, Mr. Salerno taught
building science at
LIFESTYLES--Cameron Smith
Cameron Smith is the environmental
columnist for the Toronto
Star. He is a best-selling author, a former managing director of the Globe
and Mail, a former lawyer, and for 17 years was an associate member of the
International Club of
Tuesday,
March 13
100 Queen Street West (Queen & Bay)
Free
A Live Presentation of the slideshow that is
changing the world’s mind
The
planetary emergency of global warming
and what we can do about
it
This is a live presentation of Al Gore’s
famous slideshow about global warming.
There will be a question and answer session following the
presentation. See why the movie is the 3rd
highest grossing documentary ever.
This live slideshow
presentation of An Inconvenient Truth will be narrated by Jim Harris. Jim Harris is one of North 
America’s foremost authors and thinkers on leadership and change,
working with Fortune 500 companies, associations and government
departments. Association magazine ranked him as one of
An Inconvenient Truth has been raising
awareness of the most important scientific and technical issue of our
time. Film critics Roger Ebert and
Richard Roeper gave the film “two thumbs up”. Ebert
wrote: “In 39 years, I have never written
these words in a movie review, but here they are: You owe it to yourself to see
this film. If you do not, and you have grandchildren, you should explain to
them why you decided not to.”
A presentation of the Coalition for a Green Economy, Grassroots,
Sustainable Alternatives Consulting, Today’s Environmental Solutions, and
For details about this
showing contact:
Rob Grand, Grassroots
– rob@GrassrootsStore.com
Michael Berger,
Today’s Environmental Solutions – michaelberger@sympatico.ca
Or check out www.greeneconomics.net/coalition.htm
Articles
& Links:
Stephen Colbert,
Special Report: The
Convenientest Truth, powerpoint
presentation, The Colbert Report, July 19, 2006
David Morris, “What Al Gore hasn’t told you
about global warming,” AlterNet,
James Howard Kunstler, “Ten Ways to
Prepare for a Post-Oil Society,” AlterNet,
Eco-file Radio Show: Interview
with Guy Dauncey, author Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate
Change
100 Queen Street West (Queen & Bay)
Free
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‘Current’ Affairs and Human Health Impacts: Cleaning up dirty
electricity & running stray current to ground |
Barry
Fraser, P.Ag. CAC CAFA, a
consultant to agri- and rural businesses, speaks to
the plight of dairy farmer Lee Montgomery, the youngest ever “Master Breeder”
in
Fraser then updates us on the Private Members Bill
"Ground Current Pollution Act" proposed by MPP Maria Van Bommel, now past second reading, to address consumer
complaints related to stray ground current, and the problems they create for
the health of humans and livestock.
Ralph
Frederick’s Electronic Shop at
Professor Magda Havas, BSc., Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Environmental & Resource
Studies at
Essays and Links:
Dirty
Electricity and Electrical Hypersensitivity: Five Case Studies
EMF Safety Superstore: What are EMFs?
Monday October 23, 2006
BIOGAS Opportunities
& Challenges for
Highlights of the Canadian Biogas
Association’s
“Farming for the Future” 2006 Conference at
Moderator: Greg Allen
7:30 - 10pm
Toronto City Hall (100 Queen Street West at Bay Street)
Committee Room 1
Free
Dr. Tom C. Hutchinson
Professor of Ecological Agriculture and Pollution Ecology in the Environmental
& Resource Studies Program, Trent University. Tom talks about biogas as a
farm income augmentation, the viability of various sources, & challenges
& opportunities for farmers
Jan Buijk
Sales Manager with GE Energy – Jenbacher Gas Engines,
Jan presents info on the European experience and economic performance of biogas
fuelled cogeneration technologies, & Ontario market potential
Sponsored by:
Coalition for a Green Economy
Business & the Environment Program, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York
University
Grassroots Environmental Products
Today’s Environmental Solutions
Sustainable Alternatives Consulting
Green Enterprise Toronto
For more information, contact:
Michael Berger
(416) 782-4589
http://www.greeneconomics.net/coalition.htm
Farming for
the Future Conference & Workshops
Trent University-Peterborough,
The Coalition
for a Green Economy and our co-sponsors would like to make you aware of the
upcoming Farming for the Future 2006 conference & workshops
hosted by the Canadian Biogas Association. The conference will include
information about: biogas technology, agricultural resources, renewable energy,
farm income, rural development, and sustainable communities, and it will be
held at
Registration
The Coalition for a Green Economy has obtained a discounted fee for members: $162 for the entire conference (regular price is $325). The conference’s student rate is $50. To receive the discounted pricing, please contact the Canadian Biogas Association directly to register and ensure they are aware that you are a member of the Coalition for a Green Economy. The registration form is on www.biogas.ca. For conference questions, email 2006conference@biogas.ca or call 613-845-0329.
Transportation
The Coalition will do our best to arrange carpooling - for Saturday Sept. 16 only. Please contact Michael Berger 416-782-4589 if you need transportation (first called, first served) or if you are driving, to advise the numbers of folks you can provide transportation for. Deadline to signup for carpooling is Monday September 4.
The Coalition for a Green Economy Meeting-October, 2006
For those that are unable to attend the Farming for the Future Conference & Workshops, the October meeting for the Coalition for a Green Economy will feature highlights from the conference.
Co-sponsors:
Coalition for a Green Economy- www.greeneconomics.net/coalition.htm
Business & Environment Program, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York
University- www.greeneconomics.net/green_business.htm
Grassroots Environmental Products- www.GrassrootsStore.com
Today’s Environmental Solutions
Sustainable
Alternatives Consulting
Green Enterprise Toronto- www.greenenterprise.net
100 Queen Street West (Queen & Bay)
Free
Ontario
How to make
the shit hit the fan, produce farm- and enviro-friendly
energy, and fuel a controversy at the same time
Moderator: Jeff
Berg
Writer and co-founder Post Carbon
Sustainability issues concerning the depleting oil and natural gas supply
Philip Lynn
Co-owner,
12,000 cattle; manure into biogas; supplies farm electricity and surplus to the
grid
George Alkalay
Founder,
Agri and rural cooperative & Community
Doug Fyfe
General Manager, Lakewind Power Co-op &
Countryside Energy Co-op
First Community-based wind farm in North America – 10MW Windshare
Project
Rebecca Black
Marketing, Windshare Co-op
Membership Development, Lakewind Power Co-op
Sponsored by:
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The Coalition for A Green
Economy
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Grassroots Environmental
Products
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Business and Environment
Program,
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Green
FREE
The
Coalition, along with Green
What City Folks Can do to Help Local Farmers
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Wayne Roberts |
featuring §
C4GE chair Wayne Roberts,
co-author Real
Food for a Change §
Janis Etter,
Community Chair, Food
Policy Council: Local
Food & Local Culture § Natalie Helferty, Terrestial
Ecologist, Natural Heritage Consulting; & Element Village: Local
Food & Local Ecology §
Mike Schreiner, VP, Local Flavour
Plus; & Green Enterprise Toronto (GET): Supply
Chain Strategies for Local Sustainable Food Systems §
Karen Hutchinson, Caledon
Countryside Alliance Pro-local
Food and Anti-sprawl |
Ontario
Institute for Studies in Education / U of
The Coalition…along with
The Transformative
Learning Centre of OISE-UT
Women’s Healthy
Environments Network (WHEN)
Business and Environment
Program,
Green
Grassroots Environmental
Products
presents:
A Book Launch for ...
A SAFE AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD: The Promise
of Ecological Design
by Nancy Jack
Todd
featuring
both
The Todds are icons of the green alternatives
movement, co-founders of the New Alchemy
Institute on
The Todds’
previous books have been major influences on multiple generations of designers,
planners, and activists. They include From Eco-Cities to Living Machines: Principles of
Ecological Design (1994) and The Village as Solar Ecology (1980). They have also published
the influential journal Annals of Earth.
In her new book, Nancy
Jack Todd traces their life journey, sharing anecdotes of people who influenced
their thinking and work, like Buckminster Fuller and Margaret Mead. In terms of
living a ‘green’ life, the Todds have done it all:
they’ve grappled with the realities to grow their food, sourced the sun and
wind for energy, and created green buildings.
A presentation by the Todds in
More info:
Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg (WHEN) 416-960-4944 <dgoldinrosenberg@oise.utoronto.ca>
Michael Berger,
Coalition for a Green Economy, 416-782-4589 <michaelberger@sympatico.ca>
The Corporate Sustainability Tipping
Point: How close are we?
We keep hearing about businesses that are changing their ways when it
comes to the environment.
Are these stories exceptions, or signs that we’re close to the tipping
point?
Few people are as well-qualified to give us a reality check on business
trends than Bob Willard,
retired IBM Senior Manager. In the last
three years, he has been a speaker at over 160 Sustainability Conferences and
Workshops (in Canada, the United States, Brazil, Chile, New Zealand, Belgium,
England and India), and is a keen observer of global sustainability momentum
trends. Bob is author of: “The Sustainability Advantage” on the business
case for sustainability, and “The Next Sustainability Wave” on the drivers
of sustainability.
Join Bob and the Coalition for a Green Economy for an open and in-depth
discussion on whether Corporate Greening is the coming thing and/or the real
thing.
Sponsored by: The Coalition for a Green Economy,
Grassroots
Environmental Products
& the
The Underground,
lower level,
Free
Admission
The Canadian Society for Ecological Economics (CANSEE)
The Coalition for a Green Economy
The
the
present(ed)
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David
Korten, author, When Corporations Rule the World & The Post-Corporate World founding member, BALLE,
speaking on The
Great Turning: From
Empire to Earth Community |
The global suicide economy is a legacy of 5,000 years of
organizing human relationships on the dominator model of Empire. A pathological
self-destructive system dynamic is inherent in the defining cultural values and
institutional structures of an economic system designed to concentrate economic
wealth and power in the hands of the few to the exclusion of the many.
Environmental sustainability is impossible without economic justice, which in
turn depends on equitable, local ownership that shifts the power of decision
from global financial markets to people, families, and communities of place.
This shift is possible, but depends on growing a new planetary system of local living
economies from the bottom up to bring about economic transformation
through a process of displacement and succession. Facilitating factors include
the gathering forces of a perfect economic storm of rapidly increasing oil
prices, climate change, and global financial imbalance that will result in a
dramatic shift in economic incentives from global to local production. As this
shift takes place, neoliberal economics will suffer a
growing credibility gap. Ecological Economics must be ready to step into the
breach.
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David Korten, “Economies for Life”,
Yes! magazine, #23, Fall, 2002
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Corporate
Futures: Sarah Van Gelder
interviews Paul Hawken and David Korten,
Yes! magazine, Summer 1999
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People-Centered Development Forum
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Business Alliance for
Local Living Economies (BALLE)
Plan to attend the entire CANSEE
conference:
Canadian Society for Ecological Economics,
Information &
Registration at the conference website
(note: the rest of the conference isn’t
free)
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Toronto City Hall Committee Rm.
(Queen & Bay) 100 Queen
The Coalition for a Green Economy,
Conservation Council of
present(ed)
An Offer We Can’t
Refuse:
How
Farmers, the Steel Industry, Energy Security & the Environment
with
Dr. Keith Stewart
Toronto Environmental Alliance (TEA)
Smog & Climate Change Campaigner
Author of
Hydro: The Decline and Fall of
This is your chance to hear about the new contract
style pioneered in Europe that will let renewable energy supporters and entrepreneurs
play leading roles in the development of new energy sources for Ontario, and
that will produce distributed benefits to create employment as well as energy
and environmental security. With a
doctorate in the field of environmental policy, Keith Stewart has been at the
forefront of promoting new energy policies that are about to be introduced by
the
For more information, contact:
Rob Grand, Grassroots
(416) 466-2841 rob@GrassrootsStore.com
or
Michael Berger (416) 782-4589
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Toronto City Hall St. W. (at Bay) FREE !
The Tipping Point:
The business case
against nuclear and the business case
for Renewables and Conservation
with…
Ralph Torrie, President, Torrie Smith Associates
and
David Martin,
Energy Coordinator, Greenpeace
As the Provincial Liberals
continue to debate the future of energy production, Ontario businesses and
residents are increasingly suspect of the integrity of the electrical supply
grid, concerned about the pollution associated with energy production, and
anxious about the costs of energy in the future. Despite a commitment to eliminate coal-fired
power production in
Join the Coalition for a Green Economy and Grassroots as they present creative solutions for
the future of energy supply in
Ralph Torrie is the President of Torrie Smith
Associates and an internationally recognized expert in the 
field of energy and sustainable
development. The methods and conventions he has developed for the strategic
analysis of air emission reduction strategies at the local government level are
used throughout the world. He is the co-inventor of software for strategic
planning of air pollution and greenhouse gas reduction that has been translated
into several languages and is used in more than 300 cities on all five
continents. He has been engaged as both a research and advocate for soft energy
paths since the late 1970’s, and several of his articles on safe energy futures
have been published in Alternatives, dating back to 1977. He works and lectures
throughout the world, has numerous publications, and in 2002 was a recipient of
the Canadian Environment Silver Award for his work on climate change.
David Martin has 25 years of
experience working in the Canadian non-profit sector on environmental and
disarmament issues. In particular, he has focused on energy issues, including
conservation, renewable technologies, nuclear power and climate change. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto
and has acted as a researcher and policy analyst for environmental groups
intervening on energy issues in regulatory hearings before the Ontario
Environmental Assessment Board and the Ontario Energy Board. He served as Research Director for the former
Nuclear Awareness Project from 1996 to 2000. He was a policy advisor on energy
issues for the Sierra Club of
Thursday April 28,
Up-to-date discussion with two of the
region’s cutting-edge energy analysts and innovators
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Dr. Wally Seccombe: Chair of the board of the Everdale
Environmental Learning Centre, and an internationally recognized economic
analyst of the Canadian and global power elite since the 1960s
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Greg Allen: Senior partner with Sustainable Edge, a
leading Canadian solar engineer, and winner of a major United Nations and other
design awards
Heard the talk about “peak oil” and the massive impact of
declining oil reserves on the global economy?
Wondered what’s
behind spreading oil wars, rapidly rising energy prices, and the 2003
Blackout? Interested to know about
ecological alternatives to our brittle (and expensive) fossil-fuel-based energy
system? Does the government’s
Co-sponsored by Grassroot
Environmental Products and
the Energy Action Council of
(Eneract’s
Annual General Meeting is to be held one-hour prior to the presentations at
Associated Links:
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Energy Action Council of Toronto
(Eneract)
§ Sustainable Edge engineering
§ The End of Suburbia documentary film
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“The Long Emergency: What's going to happen
as we start running out of cheap gas to guzzle?”, Rolling Stone magazine,
Thursday March 17,
a special St. Patrick’s Day double green event, co-sponsored by the Labour Education Centre, the Coalition for a Green Economy, the OISE-UT Transformative Learning Centre, and the
York U. FES Business
& Environment program.
Ontario Institute for Studies in
Education (OISE-UT),
Rm. 2-211
(211 on 2nd floor)
Green Work, the Labour Movement & the Future of
with John
Cartwright, president, Labour Council of
Though
born in
Doing Well by Doing Good:
Demonstrating Business Sustainability
& Social Responsibility
featuring
Bob Willard, author of The Sustainability
Advantage,
Kathrin Bohr, Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
and
Rob Grand, Grassroots Environmental Products
Join the Coalition for a Green Economy
as it presents insightful and inspiring examples of how
Grassroots Environmental
Products founder Rob Grand will address the challenges and victories he has encountered in his 10
years as a socially responsible ecopreneur. Grassroots has been a bellwether business in
the City of
Bob Willard is the author of The
Sustainability Advantage: Seven Business Case Benefits of a Triple Bottom Line (New Society Publishers, 2002). He is a leading
expert on the business value of corporate sustainability strategies and in the
last two years has given over 100 keynote presentations to corporations,
consultants, academics, and nongovernmental organizations. Bob applies business
and leadership development experience from his 34-year career at IBM Canada to
engage the business community in proactively avoiding risks and capturing
opportunities associated with sustainability issues.
Kathrin Bohr manages the Central and
