TO. Greenspiration Events: earth and democracy

Sun Mar 28 17:49:33 EDT 2010

Toronto Greenspiration Events

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Future Earth 2025
The Passionate Eye, CBC TV News Network
Sunday March 28, 8 p.m. ET/PT
or watch it online

Future Earth 2025 takes us on an extraordinary CGI journey into the  
future offering a vision of what the world might be like if we  
continue to deplete one of our primary resources - water. Los Angeles  
consumed by raging firestorms, Rome under attack from billons of  
locusts, Washington DC flooded, massive dust storms engulfing Las  
Vegas, nations suffering drought as rivers dry up, forcing conflicts  
over water. Just the stuff of apocalyptic Hollywood movies?

Its estimated the world's ever growing propulation will need 50% more  
water in the next 20 years. Future Earth 2025 creates credible  
disaster scenarios based on changing weather and rain patterns, and  
uses the testimony of world leading scientists and engineers to  
project the future, and explore how these disasters can be diverted by  
adopting new technologies and making changes to the way we live.  
Future Earth 2025 is produced by UK based Darlow Smithson.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearth2025/

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Democracy Cafe

Mon. Mar. 29, 6 - 8 p.m.
Koffler Centre, 569 Spadina (north of College), Rm 108
Free

Peter Russell is professor emeritus in political science at the  
University of Toronto and an expert in the Canadian Constitution. He  
is frequently interviewed by the media – recently on the subject of  
prorogation. The title of his talk will be “The Unsound Constitutional  
Foundations of Canada’s Parliamentary Democracy”

http://canadaparticipates.ca/local-chapters/ontario/toronto/

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Future Earth - Addicted to Power

The Passionate Eye, CBC TV News Network
Monday March 29, 10 p.m. ET/PT
or watch it online

Modern life would be impossible without enough energy, but it's an  
addiction that could cost the Earth. We rely on fossil fuels - oil,  
coal, and gas - which all emit the carbon that contributes to global  
warming. The dilemma is how to keep the lights on without cooking the  
planet. Future Earth: Addicted to Power illustrates the disastrous  
consequences of continuing our addiction to power through photo-real  
CGI, but it also includes gripping interviews with experts who explore  
how adopting new technologies and making changes to the way we live  
can avert these disasters.

http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearthpower/

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STUDIES IN PROPAGANDA

Free Lecture Series -- Spring 2010 - 10th Year- With Sydney White,  
Investigative Journalist

Mon. March 29, 6 - 8 p.m.

U of T, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George St, Rm. 1130

Week 1: Environmental Economics, basing our money on our REAL wealth,  
not on financial slight-of-hand. How this knowledge was denied us.

For more info: 416 787 0592

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Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air

Lecture by Professor David McKay, Physics, U of Cambridge

Tues. Mar. 30, 8 p.m.
Isabel Bader Theatre, U of T, 93 Charles West
Free
For more info: 416 978 5175
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Council of Canadians - Toronto Chapter Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, March 31st from 7pm to 9pm

Toronto City Hall, Queen and Bay

Guest Speaker:  Roy Brady, Peterborough Chapter Contact – Roy will be  
speaking about membership and fundraising strategies.

Film Screening:  Toxic Trespass - A compelling new film on children's  
health and the environment, is a co-production of If You Love Our  
Children Productions and the National Film Board of Canada, with the  
support of Women's Healthy Environments Network (WHEN). It  
investigates the growing evidence that we are conducting a large-scale  
toxicological experiment on our children, and explores what some  
scientists, doctors, activists and others are doing about it.  Link:  www.toxictrespass.com

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Questioning Canada's commercial seal slaughter

A speaker from PETA-2 give a presentation at the University of Toronto  
on the controversial seal hunt and the question of animal rights"

Thursday, April 1 at 7:00pm
U of T, Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105, at the bottom of Kings  
College Circle, just south of Convocation Hall, and just north of  
College

To see more details and RSVP, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?event.php&eid=378421025010&mid=1fb9fb2G1ee15286G42af9e4G7&n_m=greenspi%40web.ca
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War Made Easy

2008, 72 minutes.
Thursday, April 1 - 7 p.m.
OISE, 252 Bloor St. West, Room 2-212 (at the St. George Subway Station.)
Everyone welcome. $4 donation requested.

This study reaches into the Orwellian memory hole to expose a 50-year  
pattern of government deception and media spin that has dragged the  
United States into one war after another from Vietnam to Iraq.  
Narrated by actor and activist Sean Penn, the film exhumes remarkable  
archival footage of official distortion and exaggeration from LBJ to  
George W. Bush, revealing in stunning detail how the American news  
media have uncritically disseminated the pro-war messages of  
successive presidential administrations.

Preceded by a brief introduction, and will be followed by a  
commentary, and an open floor discussion period.

Please visit the Socialist Action web site: www.socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com 
    or call 416 - 535-8779.

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> April Fools discussion facilitated by Mike Nickerson author of
> Life, Money and Illusion; Living on Earth as if we want to stay
>
> 	Are we fools to think the system has to change, or
> 	are we fools not to change it ?
>
> Thursday, April 1, 4:00 pm.
> University of Toronto, Sidney Smith Building, 100 St. George Street,  
> Room 2118
>
> 	When something seems wrong, we talk about it with others.  If the  
> concern is shared, the conversation spreads, with people discussing,  
> adding to and refining the alternative view, until a new perspective  
> of a better way comes into being.  As that perspective spreads,  
> lifestyles, technologies, laws and institutions change.  This  
> process led to the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the fall of the  
> Berlin Wall, the installation of seat belts in cars and the  
> prohibition of smoking indoors in public places, to name a few  
> notable examples.  It will also eventually shift the organizing  
> principal of our societies from perpetual expansion to sustainability.
>
> 	Societies change.  Ours can, must and will.  How fast we adapt  
> depends on how much we talk about the necessary changes.

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Ecumenical Good Friday Walk for Justice

Friday, April 2, 2 pm.

Starting at the Church of the Holy Trinity (west side of Eaton Centre,  
on Bay, south of Dundas)

Returns to Church of the Holy Trinity at 4:30 pm, followed by soup and  
bread.

In 2010 our theme is: “Ubuntu: Who is excluded?” Ubuntu means:  “I am  
who I am because we are all in relationships with each other.”

http://www.goodfridaywalk.ca/

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The City of Toronto is working with the Toronto Coalition for Active  
Transportation (TCAT) and the Clean Air Partnership (CAP) to evaluate  
cycling conditions on College Street before and after the installation  
of a new bicycle pavement marking application – and they need your help.

What will I need to do?
Complete an online survey about your experience cycling on College St  
between Lansdowne Ave and Manning Ave on one day in April and one day  
in June.

When is the survey happening?
Part 1: April 19th to May 3rd, 2010
Part 2: June 14th to 18th, 2010

Who can participate?
Cyclists who ride along College St. during rush hour, for at least a  
couple blocks between Lansdowne Ave and Manning Ave. Rush hour is from  
7:00 to 9:00 a.m. and 3:30 to 6:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.
All participants must be 18 years of age or older.

How can I sign up?
Contact the city by email at bikeplan at toro nto.ca to sign up. For all  
emails, please include “College Street Survey” in the subject line and  
indicate:
•       your name,
•       preferred email address for correspondence, and
•       what section of College Street you cycle on (e.g. Brock Ave to  
Clinton St).

The City of Toronto will not be responsible for any injury or damage  
related to the completion of the survey form. Information will be  
collected in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection  
of Privacy Act.

Visit www.toronto.ca/cycling for more details.

Help find survey participants by forwarding the text above to your  
email contacts who cycle.

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