T.O. Greenspiration Events: Team Ford

Mon Aug 1 14:48:23 EDT 2011

Toronto Greenspiration Events

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Playing with Team Ford

For a penny-pinching populist, Mayor Rob Ford's policies are very expensive... Inappropriately, Mayor Ford has used his office to discriminate against those who are most defenseless, and in need of defense -- whether bicyclists or marginalized groups.  http://rabble.ca/news/2011/07/playing-team-ford  
And while Toronto removes 11 km of bike lanes, Ottawa is moving forward with segregated bike lanes:
http://www.ottawa.ca/residents/public_consult/bikelane/index_en.html 
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 Building Resilience Workshop
Tues Aug 2, 5-7 pm
The Big Carrot Roof, 348 Danforth, seminar room 212 (entrance next to Book City, second floor) (Chester subway stat.)
$25-$30 or ask for other arrangements ie. barter

Join Carrot Green Roof's Zora Ignjatovic and Courtney Raponi as they lead you through a wide range of wild local, neighbourhood plants while demonstrating how they can be useful in improving food security and one's healthy diet.  These bi-weekly sessions will teach us about identifying and using common "weeds" for our benefit, methods of preparation, medicinal uses, recipes, ethical wild harvesting practices, and much more.  

Please register by contacting Zora at artdecos at rogers.com or 416-463-9031.  

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Fundraising for alternative media!
With Roddy Doucet

Tuesday Aug 2, 6 - 8pm
OISE, 252 Bloor, Room 5260
*Snacks and TTC tokens provided*

(fund)+(friend)+(awareness) = community raising
How you can use sound fundraising methods to build community and support for your media projects?

The goals of this hands-on workshop will appeal to people with all levels of fundraising knowledge. By the end we will taken the first steps towards developing an effective fundraising piece that can be used in face-to-face, print, and electronic communications. Participants will also learn effective supporter stewardship techniques and why fundraising for social change should never be a one-person job as much as we want it to be. Finally, as a group we will consider the role of events within a larger fundraising campaign, how to locate new supporters within existing networks, and how to convince current supporters to give more. Roddy believes fundraising is a challenge for all organizations but with the right plan it can weave in with your goals as an organization to promote social change.

For more information: opirgyork.ca

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Tools for Biological Gardening: Vermicomposting and Compost Tea
Wed. Aug 3, 7-8:30 pm
Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen St. E.
Pay What You Can, but all are welcome! Those of us who want to avoid the use of chemicals in growing our food need alternatives to inorganic fertilizer and pesticides. Biological gardening is an approach that not only provides alternative tools, but also a completely different understanding of what is happening in your garden soil.
This workshop will cover the fundamentals of vermicomposting (composting with worms) and of the production and use of “aerated compost tea”.  http://rfwg.wordpress.com/ 

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Free Favourites at Four presents:

Confessions of an Innocent Man

Wed. Aug. 3, 4 p.m.
NFB Mediatheque, 150 John St
FREE
Directed by Academy Award®-nominated David Paperny, this is a raw exposé that examines William Sampson's harrowing experience while imprisoned in Saudi Arabia for a crime he did not commit.
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Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
A Technical Assessment of the Events and Radiological Consequences

Wednesday, August 3, 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Room MC102, MIE (Mechanical Engineering Building)
5 King’s College Road (at College St), University of Toronto, Toronto

On March 11, 2011 a magnitude 9.0 earthquake was felt across parts of Japan which resulted in a large tsunami (up to 14m in height). This triggered a series of nuclear events which have been described to be the second largest nuclear accident after the Chernobyl disaster. The events and containment efforts are still unfolding, and the consequences will be felt for several years to come. 

The West Toronto Chapter is inviting Professional Engineers, EITs, university students, and the general public to attend this technical presentation by Dr. Luxat on his assessment of "Nuclear Safety, Sequence of Events, Reactor Core Heat-up, and Hydrogen Generation, Characteristics of Explosions and the Damage, Fission Product Release, Dispersion Characteristics and Radiological Consequences."

About the Presenter: Dr. John C. Luxat is a professor in the Department of Engineering Physics and holds the NSERC/UNENE Industrial Research Chair in Nuclear Safety Analysis at McMaster University. He is the principal investigator for the Ontario-funded "Nuclear Ontario" university research network and for the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) project to establish the Centre for Advanced Nuclear Systems at Master University. – NOTE: is on the board of AECL

Registration Instructions: RSVP by August 1, 2011 with title “Fukushima” in the email subject line, # of attendees, your residential postal code, and any special dietary needs to: peo.wtchapter.events at gmail.com.

Cost: $10 (entrance fee collected at the door)

The event is sponsored by the West Toronto Chapter, Professional Engineers of Ontario. Proceeds collected through ticket sales at this event will be donated to the "Japanese Canadian Cultural Center’s: Japan Earthquake Relief Fund".

Event Flyer: http://members.peo.on.ca/index.cfm/document/1/ci_id/58767/la_id/1

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Mastering Google and Going Deeper: Web research skills for activists and independent journalists

Thurs Aug 4, 2 – 4 pm
Room 321, Student Centre, York University
With Tim Groves

*Snacks and TTC tokens provided*

This workshop presents the skills and techniques that investigative journalists and private-eyes use to do deep digging research on the Internet. It show people how to use google in ways most people are unaware of and how to access the wealth of information on the Internet that Google can't find. Jammed packed from edge to edge, this session will be a chance for novice and expert researchers alike to pick up skills they can use everyday.

For more information: opirgyork.ca

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Comedy Film ‘History of Oil’

Laugh at this hilarious account of a critical issue from a comic perspective. 
Experience the brilliance of Robert Newman as he seeks to share understanding.  

Thurs, 4 Aug, 7pm
OISE Auditorium,   252 Bloor St. (east St George) 

Includes presentation by Jeff Berg, Peak Oil
Free or pwyc towards Zeitgeist Media and Arts Festival

www.zeitgeist-toronto.com    Sharon at zeitgeist-toronto-com   416-604-5783

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The Toronto Hiroshima Day Coalition presents the 66th Commemoration of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Faith and Abolition: No Nuclear Weapons, No Nuclear Power

Sat. August 6th , 6:30 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity (10 Trinity Square, behind the Eaton Centre), Toronto

This year’s interfaith commemoration will address the nuclear disaster continuing to unfold in Fukushima, Japan, connecting our growing concern about nuclear power and its relationship to nuclear weapons proliferation.

Speakers include Metta Spencer (editor, Peace Magazine), Archbishop Michael Peers (Anglican Church), Rev. Dr. Seiichi Ariga (United Church), Zul Kassamali (Chair, Toronto Area Interfaith Council), and Angela Bischoff from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

Survivors Artwork Exhibit

August 2-5, North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge Street, Toronto
Exhibition of photographs and paintings by Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bomb survivors.

For further information: Anton Wagner, awagner at yorku.ca   http://www.myspace.com/hiroshimaday  

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UK Troubadour Leon Rosselson Coming to T.O.

Sat. Aug. 6, 7:30 p.m.
At Toronto's Palestinian cultural centre: Beit Zatoun (http://beitzatoun.org/), 612 Markham St. (Bloor and Bathurst)
Admission is $15 ($10 unwaged) with proceeds going to the to UK group Medical Aid for Palestinians (http://www.map-uk.org/).

Leon Rosselson has been one of the outstanding songwriters in the UK for more than fifty years. A number of his songs are standards, including The World Turned Upside Down, his tribute to the 17th Century English utopian communist group the Diggers. It was famously covered by Billy Bragg in the eighties.  

Last year Leon Rosselson released The Last Chance: Eight Songs on Israel-Palestine, an album that reflects his experiences and concerns as a secular left-wing Jew faced with the reality of the Israeli settler state.

This concert is sponsored by Cultcom, the culture committee of the Greater Toronto Workers Assembly (www.workersassembly.ca).
For more information contact Beit Zatoun or e-mail Wally Brooker at saxawoogie at yahoo.com.

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14th Annual Social Justice Summer Retreat:  Age of Austerity: Separate Struggles, Common Foe 

Thursday, August 25th -Sunday, August 28th

Camp Arowhon, AlgonquinPark

Please visit http://www.socialjustice.org/ for more information and online registration.
Registration includes accommodations in cabins, all your meals, and full access to camp facilities.

Early Bird (ends August 4, 2011)- $205
Regular Registration (after August 4, 2011) - $225
Children 5-12 years - $125
Children 2-4 years - $98
Children 0-2 years - Free

Transportation from downtown Toronto (round trip via coach bus) - $61/passenger

Call for Workshops - We invite proposals for workshops to be held at this years Social Justice Summer Retreat.
Workshops may address this years’ theme or other issues related to social justice.
We welcome both discussion sessions and skill building workshops.
Workshop can be of 1 1/2 hour or 3 hour duration.
We anticipate workshops of 15-20 people.
Proposals should be submitted to the Retreat Coordinator, Carolina Alvarado.  retreat at socialjustice.org by July 31

Please include the title, a one paragraph description of the workshop, and the names of the organizer and/or resource persons.

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