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Join us NEXT TUESDAY, November 6 for THE CARBON RUSH, a unique and powerful documentary that reveals the dirty and unjust reality of carbon trading schemes. Director Amy Miller will be in attendance and lead a discussion after the projection. This screening is co-presented with the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition Toronto.
THE CARBON RUSH
This commanding doc effectively counters the propaganda around carbon-trading by featuring the voices of those most affected.
Amy Miller / Canada / 2012 / 84 ' / English - Spanish / S.T. English
WHAT: Screening of THE CARBON RUSH
WHEN: Tuesday, November 6, 6:45PM
WHERE: Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor Street West, Toronto
COST: Suggested donation $2-$10
INFO: cinemapolitica.org/bloor
SOCIAL MEDIA: Facebook event
SYNOPSIS: Incinerators burning garbage in India. Hundreds of hydroelectric dams in Panama. Biogas extracted from palm oil in Honduras. Eucalyptus forests harvested for charcoal in Brazil.
What do these projects have in common? They are all receiving carbon credits for offsetting pollution created somewhere else. But what impact are these offsets having? Are they actually reducing emissions? And how are they affecting the people who live in these countries?
THE CARBON RUSH takes us around the world to meet the men and women on the front lines of carbon trading. So far their voices have gone unheard in the cacophony surrounding this multi-billion carbon industry, nicknamed "green gold" by its beneficiaries. Indigenous rain forest dwellers are losing their way of life. Waste pickers at landfills can no longer support themselves. Dozens of Campesinos have been assassinated.
THE CARBON RUSH travels across four continents and shows the connection between these tragedies and the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism. This groundbreaking documentary feature reveals the true cost of carbon trading and shows who stands to gain and who stands to lose.
Click this link to view the trailer for the film and read more.
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At the GTA Climate Action Summit on August 27 it was agreed that our groups should have a common "ask" on the following topics:
- Cancelation of fossil fuel subsidies
- Put a price on carbon
- Prepare a national sustainable energy plan (along with a local energy descent action plan.)
Since then Paul Antze, Michael Brothers, Ian Edwards, Judy Vellend and Patricia Warwick have been meeting regularly to research carbon pricing strategies with a view to arriving at a recommended policy.
Now we want to discuss the pros and cons of the main methods of pricing carbon and invite input from the participants. We hope to arrive at a consensus on a policy that our various groups can support and that we can eventually propose to the Climate Action Network.
We are planning on holding the meeting during the week of November 19. Suggested starting times are either 6 pm or 7 pm on weekdays and 2, 3, 4, 6 or 7 pm on Saturday. If you are interested in attending, please use this Doodle to indicate all of the times you would be available http://www.doodle.com/6i8mwsyrcna3ww73 or RSVP to sum...@dosomethingaboutit.ca.Milan
If you already completed the Doodle, thank you and read no further. If you haven't got around to it and would like to participate in the meeting please respond as soon as possible because we need to book a room and for that we need an idea of how many people to expect.
I'm repeating the original message in case you misplaced it in the flood of messages many of us receive. Please note that if you don't wish to hear from us again you can unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of the message or if you prefer send a message to us at sum...@dosomethingaboutit.ca
GTA Climate Action Summit Carbon Pricing Committee
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A day-long grassroots conference in Toronto on Saturday, Nov. 17 will discuss plans by Enbridge Inc. to pipe dangerous tar sands crude from Sarnia to Montreal through Line 9. The event, The Tar Sands Come to Ontario: Stop Line 9, will be held from 10a.m. to 5p.m. at Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St.
Featured guests will include Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians), Art Sterritt, (Executive Director, B.C. Coastal First Nations), along with Wes Elliott (Haudenosaunee land defender) and Vanessa Gray (Aamjiwnaang First Nation).
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Our Coast, Our Decision: Maximizing Your Impact at the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel Hearings |
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A Fast and Vigil for Climate Justice2012 Nov 23 - 24Vigil on Friday, November 23, 7:00pmCIBC Hall - MUSC 319McMaster University Student Centre
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For a great overview of why LNG is a collosally bad deal for the planet, read this great article from the Vancouver Observer.
thugsb
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Fundamentals of a Green Economy, with David Miller & Frank Cunningham
Jan 23, 6 - 8 pm, Hart House Great Hall.
A lecture on understanding the road to the future in pursuit of
sustainable development
and becoming responsible citizens of tomorrow with David Miller and
Professor Emeritus
Frank Cunningham. This lecture aims to establish the fundamentals of
green economy while
debunking the myths around it, to help us imagine our future. This
lecture will include
the following topics:
*How economic success can be partnered with environmental
sustainability - that jobs
through sustainability make good economic sense in both the private
and public sectors.
*Examples of significant business opportunities that new technologies
and "green"
businesses are making in the world's major cities - including right
here in Canada.
*How solving the world's environmental problems will create
sustainable employment and
build resilient cities that work for all.
*Please RSVP online: https://imagineourfuture.eventbrite.ca/
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Sustainability Thought-Leader’s Symposium 2013 details:
Date: Wednesday February 13th, 2013
Time: 7:30-10pm
Location: The Chang School, Ryerson University, Heaslip House Peter Bronfman Learning Centre, 7th Floor (297 Victoria Street)
ADMISSION IS FREE. Please RSVP at: www.ryerson.ca/ce/changschoolevents
Topic: Environmental, Social, and Economic Sustainability in Challenging Times – Exploring the Options
The 2013 symposium will include a panel of three keynote speakers who will speak about this year’s topic, followed by a panel discussion and then an audience Q&A session.
Panel speakers from Ryerson University are: Professor Alex Ferworn (Disaster Management); Dr. Mark Gorgolewski (Architecture and Building Sciences); and Dr. Kernaghan Webb (Corporate Social Responsibility and the Law).
Come out to learn about the inter-connexions among sustainability, disaster management, architecture & building sciences, and CSR & the law.
Tom
Instructor and Academic Coordinator
Post-baccalaureate Certificate in Sustainability Management
The Chang School, Ryerson University
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Saturday, Feb. 9
2:00-4:00 pm
Metro Hall, Room 303
Agenda:
- presentation on carbon pricing and discussion
- report from transitional team
- opportunity to set up working groups
Also note
- Our website (tcan.ca) and calendar are up and running. If you have an event you’d like to add to the calendar, submit it to us at cale...@tcan.ca.
- The minutes of our Jan. 19th meeting are on the website.
We left our last meeting with a real sense of excitement about the good work we can do together. We look forward to seeing you all on Feb. 9.
Since room space is limited, please RSVP to mee...@tcan.ca
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School of the Environment, University of Toronto
WINTER-SPRING 2013 ENVIRONMENT SEMINAR SERIES
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 4:10 p.m.
Room 1190, BAHEN CENTRE, 40 St. George Street
STEVE EASTERBROOK, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Systems Thinking and Climate Change: Understanding the Dynamics of Societal Inertia”
(abstract below)
No registration or fee required; all are welcome. Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475; or environmen...@utoronto.ca.
Please see directions to the location below.
Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St., 1 block west, north of College Street.
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ABSTRACT: To the general public, solutions to climate change are typically presentedeither as a set of personal behavioral changes (e.g. fly less, waste less, change your
light bulbs), or a question of global governance (e.g. international agreement on
emissions reduction targets). Yet very little progress has been made in either of
these two spheres. In this talk, I will use the conceptual toolkit of systems thinking
to explore the problem. I will focus on three examples: (1) the role of feedback loops
in accelerating or preventing change in social and ecological systems, (2) the role
of faulty mental models in constraining our ability to manage complex system interactions,
and (3) the role of boundary setting in limiting which parts of a system we pay attention to.
These ideas shed light on the likely success of different types of action on climate
change. For example, efforts to improve energy efficiency can be defeated by a feedback
loop focused on increasing consumption, because we merely spend the freed up resource on
more energy intensive activities (i.e. we buy more gadgets). Similarly, inertia in
geophysical, political, and infrastructure systems causes lags of decades between any
action on climate change and the noticeable effects of that action. We hypothesize that
a failure to comprehend this inertia is a major factor in complacency on climate action.
A key conclusion from this analysis is that we need to do a better job of incorporating
systems thinking into communication about climate change, and throughout all levels of
our education system. I will conclude the talk with an overview of our current work on
the teaching of systems thinking, in which we are making use of a mix of systems games
in the classroom, systems modeling exercises, and online simulations, to give students
a deeper understanding of the dynamics of complex systems.
BRIEF BIO: Steve Easterbrook is a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto.
He received his Ph.D. (1991) in Computing from Imperial College in London (UK), after which
he joined the faculty at the School of Cognitive and Computing Science, University of Sussex.
In 1995 he moved to the US to lead the research team at NASA´s Independent Verification and
Validation (IV&V) Facility in West Virginia, where he investigated software verification on
the Space Shuttle Flight Software, the International Space Station, the Earth Observation
System, and several planetary probes. He moved to the University of Toronto in 1999.
His research interests range from modeling and analysis of complex adaptive systems to the
socio-cognitive aspects of team interaction. His current research is in climate informatics,
where he studies how climate scientists develop computational models to improve their understanding
of earth systems and climate change, and the broader question of how that knowledge is shared
with other communities. In the summer of 2008, he was a visiting scientist at the UK Met
Office Hadley Centre, and in 2010 a visiting scientist at the National Centre for Atmospheric
Research in Boulder, Colorado; the Max-Planck- Institute for Meteorology, in Hamburg, and
the Institute Pierre Simon Laplace in Paris.
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WINTER/SPRING 2013 ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES
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THUR FEBRUARY 28, 4:10 p.m.
Room 1190, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street.
Please see directions to the location below. Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St.,
1 block west, north of College Street.
KUE YOUNG, Professor, TransCanada Chair in Aboriginal Health, Dalla Lana School of
Public Health, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
“Health and Environment in Circumpolar Indigenous People"
(abstract below)
No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or at environmen...@utoronto.ca
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ABSTRACT: This lecture introduces students to the circumpolar region and its indigenous populations.The overall health status in terms of several key comparable indicators is discussed, highlighting the substantial
disparities that exist across populations and regions. Environmental health problems can be broadly divided into
"old" problems such as sanitation, water supply, solid waste disposal and housing - issues for which effective
solutions exist but have not been resolved in many localities. Superimposed on these old problems are "new"
ones such as the long range transport of contaminants and warming of the Arctic - these are high profile issues
but much is still guesswork, and their health impact difficult to assess. It should be recognized that northern
indigenous peoples are resilient and adaptable, and are not helpless victims whose fate resides in decision-makers
far away. Climate change in historical times had been the drivers of culture change, and northern peoples need
strategies to "benefit" from climate change.
BRIEF BIO: Kue Young received his MD from McGill, MSc from U of T and PhD in biological anthropology
from Oxford. He is a Royal College-certified specialist in community medicine. He devoted much of his career
in primary care, health administration, and academic research in indigenous communities in northern Canada
and other countries. He was Head of the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of
Manitoba prior to his coming to U of T in 2002 as the TransCanada Chair in Aboriginal Health. For his
contributions he was inducted a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2009 and Member
of the Order of Canada in 2010.
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This is to confirm that the next meeting of the Toronto Climate Action Network (TCAN) will be:
Saturday, March 16
2:00-4:00 pm
Metro Hall, Room 314
(Note: The meeting will NOT be on March 9th as earlier mentioned.)
On the 16th, the transitional team will present a proposal for TCAN’s organizational structure, e.g. how do groups become members, what does membership mean, how are decisions made, how can projects come about etc.
Although this may not sound super exciting, it is a critical step in getting TCAN set up so that we can quickly move on to some good collaborative work. We hope to have as many groups as possible represented at the meeting.
If there are other items you would like to see added to the agenda, please let us know.
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506 Bloor St. W., Toronto, Ontario
7pm
http://bloorcinema.com/movies/Chasing-Ice/
This is a free screening for members, which apparently often attracts 500+ people
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The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), University of Toronto Chapter presents:
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
Featuring Keynote Speaker SEVERN CULLIS-SUZUKI
as the Kick Off event for the University of Toronto Environment Week 2013, taking place March 18th-23rd.
You will have the incredible opportunity to meet "The Girl who Silenced the World in 5 Minutes" and to hear her thoughts on Global Actions for Sustainable Development.
Watch the video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmz6Rbpnu0
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WHEN: Monday, March 4th, 2013
TIME: 5PM-9PM
WHERE: George Ignatieff Theatre @ 15 Devonshire Road (on campus)
WHAT: Keynote speaker + panel discussion + reception (FREE FOOD and NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES)
COST: FREE for UofT students; 10$ for Non-UofT students
Please bring your T-card to the event to avoid a fee if you are a University of Toronto student.
REGISTRATION:
Please register at: http://undpuoft-environment-and-sustainability-conference.eventbrite.com/
Note: A waitlist will be available.
Itinerary:
- 4:30PM-5:00PM Registration - Please arrive on the hour to register and take your seat. Seating is first-come, first-serve basis only.
- 5:00PM-5:10PM Opening Ceremony
- 5:10PM Keynote Speaker Presentation by Severn Cullis-Suzuki
- 5:15PM-6:15PM Keynote Speech followed by a Q&A
- 6:15PM-6:25PM Break
- 6:25PM-7:50PM Panel Discussion followed by a Q&A (All Panelists)
- 7:50PM-8:00PM Closing Ceremony
- 8:00PM-9:00PM Reception - The Buttery
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UNDP's goal is to inform students about how to participate in local to global actions for environmental and sustainable development. Every attendee will come out of this conference with a clear understanding on how to actively participate in the quest for a sustainable world.
Here is some information about our speakers:
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Ms. Severn Cullis-Suzuki: At just 12 years old, she gained international attention when she delivered her famous speech at the Rio Earth Summit, pleading for the delegates to preserve our planet. Since then, Severn has gone on to speak to audiences around the world about the necessity of redefining our values and acting with the future in mind when it comes to environmental sustainability. For presenting her speech in Rio, Severn received the UN Environment Program’s Global 500 Award.
Professor Matthew Hoffman is a Professor from the Department of Political Science at U of T Scarborough. His research Interests are in climate change and global environmental governance, international organization and social constructivism.
Miriam Diamond is a Professor from the Department of Geography, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at UofT. She is the Head of the Diamond Environmental Research Group, which focuses on studying and developing defensible strategies to improve environmental quality in systems subject to elevated contaminant inputs.
Stephen Scharper is an Associate Professor from the Department of Anthropology at U of T Mississauga and School of the Environment. His research Interests are
Environmental ethics, environmental worldviews, liberation theology and ecology, religions and environmentalism.
Steve Lee is a 20 year old UofT student who represented Canada at the G8 Summit 2009 in Rome, World Youth Congress 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, and NATO Youth Summit 2012 in Brussels. He was also a Member of Preparation Committee for Rio+20 and he is the Founder and Executive Director of the Foundation for Environmental Stewardship (FES), an NGO to educate, especially children and youth, to live out sustainable development as a lifestyle. For more information, please visit FES's page: https://www.facebook.com/fesplanet?fref=ts
Daryn Caister, our moderator, is a student from the UofT who is passionate about global environmental issues. His main environmental interests are centered around urban planning concerning renewable energy and transportation. He is also a producer, host, and contributor to the radio programme "The Green Majority".
This event will be followed by a networking reception at the Buttery where campus clubs and committees focused on environment and sustainability issues will table for students interested in becoming involved in an environmental initiative on campus.
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March 21
Richard Heinberg in Toronto!Thursday, March 21, 7:15 – 9:30 p.m.
Earth Sciences Building, room 1050, 22 Willcocks Street, University of TorontoI’m sure we’re all ready to welcome Spring on March 20th, but I'm even more excited to welcome Richard Heinberg on the 21st! Heinberg is the senior fellow at the Post Carbon Institute and I don’t know if there would even be a Transition Towns movement if not for his work. As far as Peak Oil thinkers and speakers, he’s not a big deal; he’s THE big deal. Come and see his talk "SNAKE OIL: How the Petroleum Industry’s Misleading Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future" on March 21st!
Info: Transition Toronto
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The evening event I highlighted in bold may be of general interest:
This is your invitation to the annual Walter Gordon Symposium, one of the major public policy events of the university year created and organized with an original soundtrack by Massey junior fellows and students at the School of Public Policy and Governance (one of whom is the same people).
The Title: Pipelines and Pipedreams -- Exploring the future of Canada?s energy economy.
The Substance: Massey and SPPG bring you some of Canada?s outstanding energy experts and players to examine rising concerns over Canada?s energy security and the threatened ?staples trap? of an economy based on Bitumen Bubble or Bitumen Cliff .
The Date: March 19
THE DAYTIME EVENT begins at 9:30 a.m. in the Upper Library. Because of limited seating, please RSVP to rsvpWalt...@gmail.com so register now and get chairs for yourself and your policy wonk friends.
Opening keynote speaker: Prof. Jean-Thomas Bernard of l?Université Laval and University of Ottawa, one of Canada?s foremost energy economists.
Panelists:
1. Barriers to a National Energy Strategy:
-- York political scientist Daniel Drache, expert on Harold Innis?s staples theory
-- David McLaughlin, former chief of staff to Jim Flaherty and former chair of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
2. Visions of a National Energy Strategy:
-- Ellis Ross, chief councillor of B.C.?s Haisla First Nation
-- Madelaine Drohan, Canadian correspondent for the Economist and author of ?The 9 Habits of Highly Successful Resource Economies: Lessons for Canada?
-- Prof. Mark Winfield, chair of the sustainable energy initiative at York?s Faculty of Environmental Studies.
3. Influence of foreign investment in energy policy making
-- Jim Stanford, chief economist, CAW
-- Daniel Schwanen, economist and assistant vice-president research, C.D. Howe Institute.
-- Prof. Stephen Azzi, Carleton Faculty of Management, author of ?Walter Gordon and the Rise of Canadian Nationalism?
THE EVENING EVENT is at 8 p.m. at Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles Street West. No RSVP required but we anticipate a full house.
Our speakers:
-- Scott Vaughan, federal Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development
-- David Manning, Alberta government envoy to Washington
-- Plus stunning onstage choreography (we expect nothing less) by the Master of Massey.
MARK THE DATE: March 19. Be dazzling at dinner table conversations afterward.
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9:30 am Registration, snack, and coffee
10 am Welcome remarks
10:15 am Morning keynote - Professor Bernard
11 am Panel 1 - Barriers to national energy strategy (Daniel Drache, David McLaughlin)
12:30 pm Lunch
1:15 pm Panel 2 - Visions of a national energy strategy (Madelaine Drohan, Ellis Ross,
Mark Winfield)
2:45 pm Coffee
3 pm Panel 3 - Influence of foreign investment in energy policy making (Jim Stanford,
Daniel Schwanen, Stephen Azzi)
4:30 pm Closing remarks
8 pm Evening keynote
communications
Director Craig Scott Rosebraugh will participate in a Skype Q&A on Friday, March 15, at 9 p.m., and Saturday, March 16, at 7 p.m.
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If you haven't already met them, this would be a good chance to do so.
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Free public lecture at 3-5pm on March 14th, 2013 in Room 044 (east end of the building in the basement) at University College, 15 King?s College Circle, Toronto, ON by
Jose Etcheverry , Assoc. Prof. of Environmental Studies, York University
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Choosing Energy Sources and Incentivizing Conservation
Synopsis
The pros and cons of various energy sources. Energy pricing. Wind power
and bird population. Harmful effects of high dams. Methane fracking.
Health effects of coal use. Underwater turbine as alternative to damming
rivers for power. Earthquakes and fracking.
This lecture is part of the series Confronting a Nuclear Age which is co-sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace and Voice of Women for Peace.
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Join us for a free public lecture at 7-9pm on March 14th, 2013 in Room 144 (east end of the building on the ground floor) at University College, 15 King?s College Circle, Toronto, ON by:
Harriet Friedmann, Professor of Geography, University of Toronto
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From ?Feeding the World? to Sustainable Farming
Bio
Harriet Friedmann is Professor of Geography and Planning, Sociology and the Munk School of Global Studies. Her research interests share a common passion for understanding the history and possible futures of food and agriculture. Markets, investments, technologies, knowledges, policies, politics, rebellions, inequalities, international specialization and trade, diets, cuisines, technologies, farming systems, relations of production (family, gender, race, and waged labour), commodity complexes, international (dis)agreements, and health of humans and ecosystems, are all grist to her mill. Friedmann tries to make sense of all this through the historical perspective of ?food regimes,? which are periods of roughly 25 years of relative stability in patterns of accumulation, inter-state and class relations, and which give way to equally enduring periods of confusion, conflict, and experimentation until a new regime constellates from some of the experiments.
Friedmann?s recent work has focused on the regional ?foodshed? of southern Ontario, one of many which are emerging across the globe, particularly efforts to link and renew cultures of farming, selling, cooking, storing, sharing, and eating to reflect the diasporic layers of populations in Ontario, from aboriginal to today?s immigrants. Friedmann is discovering how to both research and be part of the ?Community of Food Practice? working towards justice and sustainability through food system renewal; her provisional role is a ?facilitator of reflection.? She is a past Chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council and a present member.
She is the author of ? Food Regimes: International Political Economy of Food. Tokyo: Kobushi Shobo, 2006 (in Japanese. Translator, Professor Masao Watanabe, with Michiko Kida).
About this lecture series
Click here for videos from previous lectures
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace and Voice of Women for Peace.
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http://www.masseycollege.ca/events/the-2013-walter-gordon-symposium-in-public-policy
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Sincerely,
Environmental Applied Science and Management PhD Program
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ENERGY TECHNOLOGY:
INTERNATIONAL OVERVIEW OF ENERGY STORAGE
Are you interested in renewable energy and want to meet a world-class expert that is working to ensure that renewables can be used to their full potential?
DR. DIRK UWE SAUER, Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives, Germany
Dr. Uwe will discuss his research on renewable energy and the existing policy strategies to advance the widespread use of storage in the electricity, thermal and gas sectors.
Friday March 15, 10:00 to 11:00 am
Room 1220, main floor (west end), Bahen Centre for Information Technology
40 St. George St., north of College St. University of Toronto
Google map: http://goo.gl/maps/oYxeS
Presented by the Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University; and
School of the Environment, University of Toronto.
For more information, please contact Professor Jose Etcheverry, rej...@yorku.ca
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West-end community forum
Monday April 8, 7-9pm
Davenport-Perth Community Health Centre
1900 Davenport Road
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Organized by West End No Line 9 westend...@gmail.com
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WILLIAM ALLISON, Aquatic Biologist and Renewable Natural Resource Manager
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Implications of Rapid Global and Local Change for the Maldivian Atoll System”
No registration or fee required; all are welcome. Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
School of the Environment, University of Toronto
WINTER/SPRING 2013 ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES
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THUR MARCH 21, 4:10 p.m.
Room 1190, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, 40 St. George Street.
Please see directions to the location below. Parking: underground at rear of Bahen Centre, at 213 Huron St.,
1 block west, north of College Street.
BLAKE POLAND, Associate Professor, Director Collaborative Program in Community Development
(brief bio below)
“Community Resilience in the Face of an Uncertain Future: Understanding an Emerging
(abstract below)
CO-SPONSORED BY THE COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Visit www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
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SCHOOL OF THE ENVIRONMENT
University of Toronto
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RESEARCH DAY 2013
WED APRIL 17, 2013
1:00 pm to 3:30 p.m. (followed by refreshments)
Please REGISTER (free) at www.environment.utoronto.ca/ResearchDay.aspx or email m.elh...@utoronto.ca.
Everyone is welcome at any time throughout the event. Registration is not required but recommended for planning purposes only.
FACULTY CLUB, 2nd floor, 41 Willcocks St. (east of Spadina Ave., north of College St.)
(See below for directions via TTC and for parking info.)
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Join us during Earth Week for a look at some of the research conducted by School of the Environment faculty, post-doctoral researchers and graduate students.
Featured will be four research presentations followed by a presentation of graduate students' awards.
Program and schedule is subject to change. For updates, please visit
www.environment.utoronto.ca/ResearchDay.aspx or contact m.elh...@utoronto.ca (416-978-6526).
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PROGRAM SCHEDULE:
(Free registration, updates, abstracts and bios (to be posted): www.environment.utoronto.ca/ResearchDay.aspx)
1:00
DONALD JACKSON, Professor and Interim Director, School of the Environment: Opening Remarks
1:10
JENNIFER MURPHY, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Chemistry;
Full member of graduate faculty, School of the Environment
Chemistry and Climate, from the City to the Country
1:40
JOANNE MOYER, Post-Doctoral Fellow, School of the Environment
Learning, Faith and Sustainability in Kenya and North America
2:10
HEATHER WHEELER, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Cell and Systems Biology and School of the Environment
Plant Cell Wall Deposition and the Future of Biofuels
2:40
DAVID HOULE, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science and School of the Environment
Canadian Provinces’ Action or Inaction on Climate Change: Does Policy Capacity Explain Use of Market-Based Instruments?
3:10 PRESENTATION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS’ AWARDS
3:30 REFRESHMENTS
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DIRECTIONS VIA TTC AND PARKING:
Via TTC: Three streetcar stops south of Spadina subway station;
Parking: 1 Spadina Crescent, or 213 Huron St. (underground, 1 block east), north of College St.
(Call 416-978-PARK or visit http://www.parking.utoronto.ca/)
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Bike Month Bike to Work Breakfast at Hart House: Wed June 5, 7:30-9am
The Hart House Recreational Athletics Committee will be hosting our Annual FREE Bike to Work Month Breakfast. Come out and enjoy juice, coffee and a cold breakfast on our tab! Presented by the Hart House Recreational Athletics Committee (RAC) as part of the City's Bike Month festivities (www.toronto.ca/cycling/bikemonth). Food and drinks will be available on a first come, first served basis until the food runs out so get there early!
Wednesday June 5, from 7:30 to 9:00am, on the Hart House patio outside the Arbor Room. FREE. For more information: www.harthouse.ca/recreational-athletics-committee.
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JOURNEY for EARTH Walkers: An Idle No More EventFriday, June 14, 2013 – Friend’s House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto – 6:30 pm
Toronto’s Friend’s House welcomes this group of 5 Dene Nation Walkers from Saskatchewan who are making their way across Canada to Toronto, and on to Ottawa for June 21st National Aboriginal Day. Learn about the devastating attack on our Environment – Land, Air, Water - through Harper’s Omnibus Bills and the illegal international deal known as FIPA, and the disastrous consequences for Earth if treaty obligations to protect the land are diminished. Their territory in Saskatchewan is home to Canada’s uranium extraction, and possible home to Canada’s nuclear waste.
Hosted by Quaker Peace and Social Action Committee - Lyn Adamson, 416-731-6605
EARTH WALKERS: Bryan Whitstone, Geron Paul, Nancy Greyeyes, Rueben Maurice, and Sharon Veley,
FOOD DONATIONS WELCOME! - pre-prepared, eg chopped veggies, fruit, bread, cheese, dips, or desserts. THANKS!
pres...@toronto350.org
UTSC Summer Institute on Applied Climate Change: Aug 6 to 9
Applied Climate Change: Gaining Practical Skills for Climate Change Adaptation. At the University of Toronto Scarborough, from August 6th to 9th 2013.
This course provides an overview of the knowledge, tools and resources needed to become more effective leaders and managers in adapting to climate change. During the four-day intensive session, participants will develop practical skills through lectures, step-by-step approaches, case studies and hands-on activities. As part of the course, each participant will complete, and carry away, a climate changes impacts and adaptation study for their own region of geographic interest that will include: how the climate has changed in the past; how the climate is projected to change in the future; how these changes have/will impact the region; and how best to adapt to these anticipated impacts.
The deadline to register is July 10, 2013. For additional details or to RSVP, please visit: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/climatelab.
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http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4121441342#
This workshop will be held at Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. Toronto (near St. George and Bloor)
Dates: Thursday July 11, 6.30pm - 9pm and Thursday July 25, 6.30pm - 9pm.
Workshop description: This workshop is designed to help you and your organization learn valuable steps, tools, techniques and approaches that will help you effectively plan and execute a winning campaign plan to help you achieve your policy goals.
Participants will learn the basic components of a campaign, how to choose a strategic campaign goal, choosing strategies and tactics that suit your goals, working with individuals and groups to build influence, and understanding the key ingredients of successful campaigns. It's recommend that multiple people from one group attend the workshop as there will be ample time to strategize to achieve your goals.
Trainer: Jessica Bell is a facilitator and educator. She teaches advocacy and government relations at Ryerson University. She is the co-founder of Tools for Change, which provides skills-based advocacy training to Torontonians. More information about Jessica is at www.jessicabell.org.
COST: $40 for both sessions, or $30 each for activists from the same group.
For more information email: peace...@primus.ca or call at 416-731-6605.
Please inquire if cost is a barrier.
PeaceWorks is an initiative of Toronto Friends Meeting (Quakers), in partnership with Voice of Women for Peace, Toronto Climate Campaign and Greenspiration.
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Most Science for Peace members—especially those living in the Toronto
area—ought to know each other; be the source of most events and
campaigns; and engage in highly democratic elections involving real
competition between candidates who promote differing platforms. To
encourage such democratic participation and leadership, we have begun
holding get-togethers about once a month for our members, their
friends, and stray curiosity-seekers. The next one will be:
Thursday, Aug 8, 5:30 pm.
Drinks and/or supper:
Patio of the U of T Faculty Club (west side of the building) 41
Willcock Street, Toronto (near Spadina).
Everyone is welcome. Bring a friend. Dinner is about the same medium
price as other popular Toronto restaurants. If you haven't informed
me that you're coming, it will be nice to do so, but if you forget,
don't let that stop you. The waiters can always add tables.
pres...@toronto350.org
Martin Luther King: A Global Perspective
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/565654316813532/Bio
Paul R. Dekar is Niswonger Professor of Evangelism and Missions, Memphis Theological Seminary. He is author of Creating the Beloved Community: A History of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the United States (2005) and Holy Boldness: Practices of an Evangelistic Lifestyle (2004).
About this lecture series
Click here for full list of the 2013/2014 Vital Discussions of Human Security lecture series events: http://www.scienceforpeace.ca/vital-discussions-of-human-security-fall-2013-spring-2014
Click here for videos from previous lectures: http://www.youtube.com/user/Science4Peace
Co-Sponsored by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace and Voice of Women for Peace.
Please spread this notice around. We look forward to seeing you at University College!
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A year after gathering on Parliament Hill to mourn the ‘Death of Evidence’, scientists and their supporters are back. On September 16th, they will rally in Toronto and across the country to highlight the critical need to maintain evidence-based decision-making through the support of science in the public interest. Join your Union, Scientists for the Right to Know, Evidence for Democracy, and the University of Toronto Faculty Association at the southern tip of Queen's Park to stand up for science!
TIME AND LOCATION: 12:00 pm (noon) on September 16th at Queen's Park.
WHO: Speakers for the Toronto rally include Dr. John Poliyani, Nobel laureate and professor emeritus in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Toronto; Dr. Scott Prudham, professor in Department of Geography & Planning and President of the at University of Toronto Faculty Association and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Dr. Craig Heron, Professor of History at York University; Dr. Margrit Eichler, Professor emeritus in OISE at the University of Toronto and President of Scientists for the Right to Know; and more.
A complete list of Stand Up for Science events can be found on our website: https://evidencefordemocracy.ca/standupforscience
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Come to the first Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee meeting for the year on Tuesday, September 17th from 1-3:00 pm at the GSU Executive Office at 16 Bancroft Avenue! Chaired by your Civics and Environment Commissioner, Susanne Waldorf, we will begin to get-to-know the other members of the committee and start to build a joint vision for our work in the coming year. The purpose of the EJS Committee is to make UofT a more sustainable community by advocating on issues of environmental justice and promoting sustainable policies and practices both on and off campus. If you are unable to attend, but would like to be involved in the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee, please email Susanne at civ...@utgsu.ca.
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Ulead Conference
U of T student groups! Come out and meet student leaders from across the campus, attend leadership workshops, and discover opportunities for collaboration at the annual Ulead Conference on Thursday September 26th, 1-9pm at Hart House. This is a free event and open to all U of T student leaders involved with campus groups.- Over 40 student groups to meet
- Free Conference (refundable registration-deposit required)
- Workshops include: Social Media, Funding & Sponsorship, Leadership & Management, and more
- Free Dinner
- Receive a Ulead Conference Certificate
- Earn 2 Ulead Points used towards office space eligibility
The event has limited capacity.
Register today at: http://uoft.me/ulc
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The UTGSU Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee (www.utgsu.ca/sustainability) will meet for the second time TOMORROW on Friday, September 27th from 4-6pm at the UTGSU building at 16 Bancroft Avenue (in the downstairs lounge). Chaired by your Civics and Environment Commissioner, Susanne Waldorf, we will identify the interests of the group and continue building a joint vision for our work in the coming year. The purpose of the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee is to make UofT a more sustainable community by advocating on issues of environmental justice and promoting sustainable policies and practices both on and off campus. Some of the topics to be discussed include: a food and water justice educational campaign, advocating for better public transit, and implementing an e-waste recycling program, as well as anything else you want to bring to the table. If you are unable to attend, but would like to be involved in the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee, please email Susanne at civ...@utgsu.ca.
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Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, Professor Emerita of Political Science at University of Western Ontario
on
Neither
Conflict nor “Use it or Lose it”: Canada’s Arctic
Extended Continental Shelf
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/358599977606747/
Bio
Dr. Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto, and Professor Emerita of International relations and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at Western University.
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LOCATION: Room ES 142(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
CHRIS KENNEDY, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Past Performance and Future Needs for Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Infrastructure”
(abstract below)
Please
note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around
3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
Seminars are FREE. No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation. Please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx
for schedule updates, abstracts and
speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or environment.seminars@utoronto.ca).
For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK for info and rates.
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ABSTRACT: This paper explores the investment implications of moving to low-carbon,
climate-resilient infrastructure (Kennedy and Corfee-Morlot, 2013). It begins with
analysis of gross fixed capital formation and decarbonisation trends to examine past
performance of OECD countries in reducing GHG emissions from 1997 to 2007. Many OECD
countries made progress in decoupling GHG emissions from infrastructure investment in
residential buildings, and to a lesser extent from power and industry, but increased
efforts are required, especially in the transportation sector. The analysis highlights
the need to accelerate the pace and scale of change to reverse GHG emission trends to bring
into reach ambitious climate policy goals. It then assesses future global infrastructure
needs under low-carbon and business-as-usual (BAU) global warming scenarios, and
the incremental costs of going “low-carbon” are estimated to be small relative to
the magnitude of the BAU infrastructure investment needs. Global infrastructure needs for
2015–2020, including buildings and transportation vehicles, are approximately 6.7 trillion
USD/year under BAU. Incremental costs of low-carbon infrastructure are of the order −70
to +450 billion USD/year. Achieving climate resilient infrastructure may +add costs, but
there is potentially synergistic overlap with low-carbon attributes. Although estimates
are incomplete, the technical and financial inter-dependency between infrastructure systems
suggests the potential to generate infrastructure investment to support a “virtuous cycle”
of low-carbon growth.
BRIEF BIO: Christopher Kennedy is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering
at the University of Toronto, where he teaches courses in Infrastructure Economics,
Engineering Ecology, and the Design of Infrastructure for Sustainable Cities. His work
involves applying principles of Industrial Ecology to the design of urban infrastructure,
including buildings, water systems, and urban transportation. Amongst his publications are
studies of urban metabolism, greenhouse gas emissions from global cities and processes
for developing sustainable urban transportation systems. His wider work includes contributions
to probability theory, regional economics and engineering education. His book The Evolution
of Great World Cities: Urban Wealth and Economic Growth was published by University of
Toronto Press in 2011. Chris has worked and studied in Europe and North America. He holds
qualifications in Civil Engineering (Imperial & Waterloo), Economics (Warwick) and
Business (Toronto). In 2004/05, Chris was a visiting professor at Oxford University and
ETH Zürich. In 2011/12, he was seconded to the OECD in Paris, to work on Cities, Green
Growth and Policies for Encouraging Investment in Low Carbon Infrastructure. He has
conducted professional work for the Ontario Ministry of Finance, Infrastructure Canada,
Clinton Climate Initiative, California Energy Commission, US National Science Foundation,
UN-HABITAT and the World Bank. Chris is Director of the Cities and Engineering Management
Program at University of Toronto and is President–elect of the International Society
for Industrial Ecology.
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Join Science for Peace members and friends for a drink after work — and stay for dinner if you like! This is not a "meeting” — just a chance to unwind and share ideas with like-minded activist/intellectuals for an hour or two.
Wednesday October 23, at 5:30pm, at the University of Toronto Faculty Club (41 Willcocks Ave). It's nice to RSVP to s...@physics.utoronto.ca, but if you don't, that's okay; just come anyway, and bring a friend!!!
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"I am organizing and hosting an event in Toronto in mid-November in connection with http://www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting.html that might be of interest to anyone local. I have enclosed a description of the event. The Psychonomics meetings are conventionally free of charge to anyone so if you reside in Toronto and are interested, all you need to do is to show up (you can pre-register at the link above, I believe)."
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• Barbara Heidenreich from Ontario Heritage Trust will speak about trees as natural heritage resources.
• Franz Hartman from Toronto Environmental Alliance will address the big picture of what has changed in environmental conservation in the 25 years TEA has been operating. He will speak to what average citizens can do to conserve natural heritage in the context of our natural ecosystems.
• Jane Weninger from City of Toronto will address the City of Toronto's Natural Heritage Study, which is a big picture view of what the city is doing to conserve and enhance our natural heritage.
• Carolyn Woodland from the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority will discuss management of natural heritage resources related to water including river valleys, marshes, the waterfront, and more.
• Geoff Cape, Evergreen's Executive Director, will moderate the panel.
Attendees will also get the chance to ask their questions about our city's natural heritage. It's also an opportunity for students to network with the panel after the event.
Heritage Toronto's Natural Heritage Symposium will be held on November 12 at St. Lawrence Hall from 7:00 – 9:00pm. The event is complimentary but those wishing to attend must pre-register at http://naturalheritage.eventbrite.ca or call Rachel Ostep at (416) 338-0682.
Heritage Toronto is a charitable arms-length agency of the City of Toronto established in 1949 to promote a greater appreciation for the city’s rich architectural, cultural, archaeological and natural heritage. Through partnerships with local community groups and volunteers, Heritage Toronto provides city-wide programs and services.
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LOCATION: Room ES 142(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
BETH SAVAN, Senior Lecturer Emerita, School of the Environment, University of Toronto
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Accelerating the Adoption of Cycling for Transportation in Toronto: Tools to Get More People onto Bikes”
(abstract below)
At this seminar, Beth Savan will be presented with the Delta Management Group 2014 Clean16 and Clean50 awards in
recognition for her contribution to sustainable development in the education category.
For more information please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/News/SavanClean50.aspx
Please
note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around
3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
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GLOBALIZATION, LAW & JUSTICE WORKSHOP
presents
Daniel Cole
Indiana University
The Problem of Shared Irresponsibility in International Climate Law
Thursday, November 14, 2013
4:10 - 6:00
Solarium (Room FA2) - Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
States have treaty-based and customary international law-based responsibilities to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions emanating from their territory do not cause transboundary harm. However, those international legal responsibilities conflict with the observed behavior of states, which suggests a general rule of irresponsible treatment of the global commons. This paper, written for a conference (and eventual book) on shared responsibility in international law, examines that conflict and two potential mechanisms for resolving it: (1) international litigation and (2) various types of polycentric approaches to climate governance. Several international legal scholars have been advocating litigation as a means of compensating victims and creating incentives to mitigate emissions and negotiate more forceful international agreements. But they are like lawyers in search of clients. To date, no climate cases have been brought before the International Court of Justice (or any other international tribunal). The reason is that obstacles to successful international litigation are even more formidable than those that have caused all domestic (US) climate-related tort claims to fail. Even if international climate litigation could be successful, it could well have perverse impacts on international climate (and other) negotiations. Instead of inculcating shared responsibility, states might become more reluctant to enter into international agreements in the first place. Contrary to the facile notion that "global problems require global solutions," this paper suggests that shared responsibility for greenhouse gas mitigation is likely to be spurred by linkable actions taken at national and sub-national levels. This argument is supported by an emerging literature on polycentric climate governance using various (compatible, rather than mutually-exclusive) approaches, including "regime complexes," "building blocks," and "tipping sets."
Daniel H. Cole, an internationally recognized environmental law and economics scholar, joined the Indiana Law faculty in 2011. Most of his writings are at the intersection of the law, economics, and politics of property, natural resources law, land use, and environmental protection. He has also written extensively about Poland and Polish law. Cole is the author of seven books and more than forty articles. His works have published in England, France, Italy, and China, as well as the United States. An award-winning teacher, Cole has taught courses including climate law and policy, environmental law, international environmental law, land use, law and economics, natural resources law, property, and property theory. Cole sits on the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, and is a founding member of both the Midwest Law and Economics Association and the Society for Environmental Law and Economics. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall (College for Advanced Study), Cambridge, and has served as a Visiting Scholar in the Faculties of Law and Land Economy at the University of Cambridge. In the fall of 2001, Cole was the John S. Lehmann Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Before moving to Bloomington, he was the R. Bruce Townsend Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.
Refreshments will be provided.
Nadia Gulezko
Events Coordinator
Faculty of Law
University of Toronto
78 Queen’s Park
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M5S 2C5
Tel 416-978-6767
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About the session, he says: "I am organizing and hosting an event in Toronto in mid-November in connection with http://www.psychonomic.org/annual-meeting.html that might be of interest to anyone local. I have enclosed a description of the event. The Psychonomics meetings are conventionally free of charge to anyone so if you reside in Toronto and are interested, all you need to do is to show up (you can pre-register at the link above, I believe)."
Steve
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If you haven’t had the opportunity to join the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee (EJSC) meetings yet this year, this is a good time to start! We will meet on Wed. Dec. 11th from 4-5:30pm in the UTGSU Building (16 Bancroft Avenue). For more information about the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Committee, please check out our web page at:www.utgsu.ca/sustainability.
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Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Friday, January 17th 2014
Keynote Address: "Brothers and Soldiers: Arab Revolts Three Years Later" (Prof. Hazem Kandil, Cambridge Professor of Political Sociology)
The full conference schedule, panels, and a list of paper presentations can be found on the conference website here: http://mgordner.wix.com/contentiouspolitics
To register, click on the following link: http://www.eventbrite.ca/e/contentious-politics-in-egypt-and-tunisia-tickets-9817447249
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2014 WINTER/SPRING ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH SEMINAR SERIES:
THURSDAYS at 4:10 p.m.
Room 257, University College, 15 King’s College Circle
THUR JAN 23 SARAH WAKEFIELD, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Program in Planning, University of Toronto
Healthy Public Policy through an Environmental Justice Lens: Stories from the Trenches
THUR JAN 30 KAREN MORRISON, Assistant Professor, Population Health University of Guelph
Watersheds as Settings for Health and Well-being: Ecohealth in Practice
THUR FEB 6 LOUISE AUBIN, Manager, Health Hazards & Environmental Health, Peel Public Health
Reducing Systemic Vulnerability to Climate Change in Peel
THUR FEB 13 MICHELLE MURPHY, Professor, Department of History & Women and Gender Studies Institute, University of Toronto
How not to have a Sex Panic: Reframing the Politics of Reproductive Toxins
THUR FEB 27 STEPHANIE GOWER, Healthy Public Policy, Toronto Public Health
Health Evidence in Municipal Decision-Making: Health Impact Assessment of a Proposed Expansion to Billy Bishop Toronto City Centre Airport
THUR MAR 6 STEPHEN SCHARPER, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UofT Mississauga and School of the Environment
A Tree on Trial: Health and the Urban Canopy, or Saving the Urban Forest One Tree—and Lawsuit—at a Time
THUR MAR 13 JEFF BROOK, Senior Research Scientist, Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada
Black Carbon Personal Exposures and Cardiovascular Effects in Beijing, China
THUR MAR 20 DERRICK MACFABE, Assistant Professor, Departments of Psychology (Neuroscience) & Psychiatry (Division of Developmental Disabilities), Director, Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research group, University of Western Ontario
Bugs, Bowels, Brains and Behaviour: The role of the Gut Microbiome in Neurodevelopmental/ Neuropsychiatric Disorders
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Date & Time: Sat. Feb. 1st, 9:30AM-6PM
Location: Bahen Centre for Information Technology, University of Toronto
An outstanding keynote speech, two discussion panels with distinguished professionals, four speeches by industry leaders, and more - this year's event will be the most engaging SEA Conference yet. Join us for a day full of networking opportunities and illuminating discussion, followed by a social at O’Grady’s.
Topics include:
- Power generation
- Urban Infrastructure
- Transportation
- Energy storage technologies
- Behavioural change toward sustainability
- And more!
Also, make sure to attend SEA Case Competition finals as the finalists present their solutions to a committee of panel of company executives and professors, and watch them compete for top spot!
A mix of sustainability companies and student clubs will be attending the showcase, which will be held at lunchtime.
Food and drinks will be served at lunch and during the networking session.
Visit http://www.sustainable-engineers.org/seac/ to learn more and register. To book your spot, please submit a $10 deposit, which will be refunded to you in full upon checking-in at the conference.
More questions? Contact sulma...@sea.skule.ca.
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My name is Robert Onley and I am the Co-Founder of the Young Diplomats of Canada (YDC), a Canadian non-profit organization that provides international leadership opportunities for exceptional Canadian students and young professionals. I am also a U of T political science grad (2009).
YDC is currently recruiting students to attend the 2014 Nuclear Knowledge Summit (NKS) in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from March 21-23, 2014. I am writing to request your assistance in promoting this exciting opportunity to your undergraduate and graduate student body by sending an email and/or posting the notice below on your intranet and social media platforms:
Calling all students interested in nuclear energy and nuclear weapons security:
The Young Diplomats of Canada is now recruiting students to attend the 2014 Nuclear Knowledge Summit in Amsterdam, Netherlands from March 21-23, 2014.
If you're interested in representing Canada abroad at a premier international gathering, please apply online by February 7, 2014 at midnight EST. Successful applicants will have a demonstrated interest in nuclear affairs, a proven record of success and a clear interest in global public advocacy.
**For the full info package and to APPLY ONLINE NOW visit www.youngdiplomats.ca**
*****Application deadline is February 7th, 2014 at MIDNIGHT EST.*****
I have also attached the event Info Package to this email. Thank you kindly for assisting our recruitment efforts. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at any time.
Sincerely,
Robert D. Onley, J.D.
Legal Counsel
Director of Policy & Development
Young Diplomats of Canada - Les jeunes diplomates du Canada
Canadian Organizing Committee, 2014 Y8 & Y20 Summits
e: le...@youngdiplomats.ca c: +1-416-627-6557
w: www.YoungDiplomats.ca
"Building Canada's next generation of global leaders."
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LOCATION: Room ES 149(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
MATTHEW HOFFMANN, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto
Scarborough and Co-Director of the Environmental Governance Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “The Emerging Revolution in the Global Response to Climate Change?”
(abstract below)
Please note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around 3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
Seminars are FREE. No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation. Please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx
for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
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DAY and TIME: WEDNESDAY, FEB 12, 4:10 pm - 6 pm
LOCATION: Room ES 149(basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
GORD PERKS, City Councillor, Ward 14, Parkdale High Park
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Environmental Activism and Policy: From the Front Line”
(abstract below)
Please
note that refreshments will be served prior to each seminar at around
3:45pm in Rm. ES 1042, 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building.
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
Seminars are FREE. No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation. Please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx
for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or environment.seminars@utoronto.ca).
For parking information, please call 416-978-PARK for info and rates.
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ABSTRACT: To be presented at the lecture
BRIEF BIO: Gord Perks was elected to represent Parkdale-High Park in 2006. Gord has an impressive record on environmental initiatives beginning in 1987. With such environmental organizations as Pollution Probe, Greenpeace Canada, the Better Transportation Coalition, and the Toronto Environmental Alliance, Gord’s emphasis has been on waste reduction and public transit. He is the principal author of the Canadian Green Consumer Guide, one of Canada’s best selling non-fiction books. Gord Perks has been the Environment columnist for Eye Weekly and also an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto’s Environmental Studies Department. In addition to his work as a City Councillor, Gord’s vision for the city extends beyond ward boundaries. Gord led the fight to get the TTC to adopt the Ridership Growth Strategy, making Dufferin, King and Queen priority streets for improved transit servicing. Similarly, he was fundamental to the expansion of the City of Toronto’s blue and grey box program. He was successful in his fight to introduce a pesticide by-law that banned the use of cosmetic use of dangerous chemicals on all outdoor properties.
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I am writing because we have an exciting event coming up that I think School of Environment students would be interested in. On March 5, ILead is hosting Mr. David Miller, former Toronto mayor and current CEO of WWF-Canada. Mr.Miller will share his leadership journey and to discuss how students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs can bring effective leadership skills to the non-profit world and to the political process. Read more about the event here: uoft.me/davidmiller
If you could share this opportunity with students, that would be great.
I am fairly new to the role and the University so forgive me if this is not the correct process (or if you aren't the correct person) to send event opportunities to. If you would like any further information or have any questions, please do not hesitate to let me know.
All the best,
Amy
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Amy Huynh | Teaching & Learning Program Assistant
Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | University of Toronto
200 College Street, Room 240 | Toronto, ON | M5S 3E5 Canada
amyp....@utoronto.ca | ilead.engineering.utoronto.ca
T: 416.978.3018
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(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Mainstreaming Environmental Activism: The Next Step for the Environmental Movement?”
(abstract below)
To help the environment, please bring your own mug.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation. Please visit http://www.environment.utoronto.ca/SeminarSeries.aspx
for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
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ABSTRACT:
That we are standing on a threshold in the evolution
of our species, is virtually unquestionable. Our sciences, peering
carefully at the relationship between humans and the planet, are telling
us, we have some very, very big problems bearing down on us. Each of
our disciplines are being challenged to overcome
the problem of Change – how to change humans and our systems, in order
to salvage a livable world. This question of change is approached from
many different perspectives, which is in fact, a key strength of
environmental approaches – their diversity is their
strength. But it is difficult to change larger institutional structures
without a more unified voice, putting the environmental community into a
moment of uncertainty and reorganization, as it struggles with how to
navigate the trade-off between integration
and diversity. Dr. Dolderman will examine the Psychology underlying this
challenge, and propose some ways forward, in the hopes of stimulating
further conversation on the issue.
BRIEF
BIO: Dr. Dan Dolderman is an Environmental
Psychologist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Toronto. His work
focuses on environmental activism and personal fulfillment, stemming
from a lifelong passion for helping people reach their full potential
and cultivate a deeper awareness of the living
world, two life paths that are intimately intertwined. Dan’s past work
has involved helping to create environmental programs at the University
of Toronto, and working with organizations such as Free The Children to
help inspire people to become active advocates
for an ethical society. Currently, his work is focused on helping to
catalyze a grassroots social movement, the Unstoppable Snowball, in the
hopes of revitalizing democratic participation across Canada concerning
climate change. |
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MEMORIAL LECTURES SERIES
Wednesdays and Tuesday 4:10 p.m.
LOCATION: shown below for each lecture*
TUE MAR 18 Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture:
ERICH VOGT, Sessional Lecturer, School of the EnvironmentIs the Climate Changing for Climate Change?
*LOCATION: Rm. BA 1180, Bahen Centre, 40 St. George Street
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Water, Indigenous rights, justice for mercury survivors
Tuesday July 29, 6:30 p.m. Ryerson University
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FEATURING
•Grassy Narrows Chief Roger Fobister
•Judy Da Silva - Grassy Narrows Clan Mother
•Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Writer, educator and activist
•Stephen Lewis
RIVER RUN 2014: RALLY AND MARCH
Thursday July 31, 12pm.
Walk starts at Grange Park, Toronto
Donate to River Run 2014
Join the facebook group
Take Action for Grassy Narrows
#RiverRun #FreeGrassy
In 1970 Grassy Narrows people learned that their daily meal of fish was contaminated with mercury poison. Ontario had allowed a paper mill upstream to dump 9,000 kg of mercury into Grassy Narrows' River. Three generations of Grassy Narrows families are still dealing with the impacts of mercury on their health, culture, and livelihood.
Now, Ontario has finalized plans for another decade of clearcut logging on Grassy Narrows Territory - a practice that is known to release dangerous amounts of mercury into lakes and rivers. This callous plan will deepen the tragedy of mercury poisoning in Grassy Narrows. Grassy Narrows has said 'no' to clearcut logging and has called for our help to make sure that this dangerous logging plan is never carried out.
Please join the Grassy Narrows Women's Drum group as they demand clean water and respect for their Indigenous rights. Read more information.
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LOCATION: Room ES 149 (basement), 5 Bancroft Avenue, Earth Sciences Building
JOHN ROBINSON, Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability; Associate Provost,
Sustainability; Professor, Geography, University of British Columbia
(brief bio below)
TOPIC: “Emergent Dialogue, Municipal Climate Response, and Imaginary Worlds: Exploring Climate
Change Innovation and Engagement Processes at the Community Scale”
(abstract below)
ABSTRACT: The locus of innovation and much activity on climate change and sustainability has strongly shifted to the municipal or community level around the world. Yet we still have much to learn about how best to engage communities and citizens in exploring sustainable futures. This paper reports on two streams of work. The first is recent and ongoing work on community scale climate innovation in British Columbia, Canada and elsewhere. A recently completed study has developed 11 case studies of community climate leadership in British Columbia (BC), Canada and implemented a number of processes of peer-to-peer learning and information exchange. Lessons from the case studies and our attempts to involve local governments in such exchanges will be discussed. More recently, three related projects have been funded: the development of additional BC case studies and more processes of community engagement; a study of the emerging eco-districts movement around the world; and a study of climate change governance with particular reference to small and medium sized businesses. Each will be described. The second stream of work focusses on various processes of engaging citizens on climate change and sustainability issues. In particular, the paper will summarize the results of several decades of work in BC on using landscape visualization and participatory backcasting techniques for such engagement, focusing on recent work on multi-channel (landscape visualization workshops, scenario tools, social media, tabletop games, art, mobile apps, computer games) engagement processes. The "Sustainability in an Imaginary World" project, which will combine art and scenario analysis in an attempt to destabilize conventional views of sustainability and human-nature relations, will also be described. A theme running throughout the paper is the desirability of moving away from engagement tools and processes focused on what might be called 'persuasive communication' approaches intended to create pre-determined understandings or behaviour changes, and towards tools and processes based on 'emergent dialogue' approaches where the understandings and desirable behaviours must be co-produced by the participants and researchers. It is argued that this approach is particularly important when considering larger questions (e.g. the desired future for a community), the answers to which are still very much up in the air.
BREIF BIO: Dr. John Robinson is responsible for leading the integration of academic and operational sustainability on UBC’s Vancouver campus. In that capacity, he directs the UBC Sustainability Initiative (USI) and provides leadership for UBC’s academic, research and operational activities and programs in sustainability. He also represents UBC’s sustainability activities to the broader local and international community. Dr. Robinson’s research focuses on the intersection of climate change mitigation, adaptation and sustainability; sustainable buildings and urban design; the use of visualization, modeling, and citizen engagement to explore sustainable futures; creating partnerships for sustainability with the private, public, non-governmental and research sectors; and, generally, the intersection of sustainability, social and technological change, behaviour change, and community engagement processes. Previously a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, he has been a Lead Author in the last three reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which won the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007. In 2012, Canadian Geographic magazine named Professor Robinson Canada’s Environmental Scientist of the Year, and he received the Metro Vancouver Architecture Canada Architecture Advocacy Award for 2012.
Co-sponsored with the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto.
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You might be interested in this free upcoming event at the ROM:
Canada’s Carbon Bubble and the risks it poses: James Leaton talk
On Thursday November 27th at 6:00 pm, James Leaton, Research Director of Carbon Tracker, will speak about the risks of the carbon bubble.
In order to limit climate change to 2 degrees, the vast majority of the oil reserves we know about need to stay in the ground. In a low carbon world, the high cost and high carbon tar sands will be among the first and worst hit.
Admission: Free
SPACE IS LIMITED. To register, please visit Canada’s Carbon Bubble and sign up.
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Friday, November 21, 2014 Dr. Jerome Whitington (National University of Singapore) Carbon as a metric of the human: an anthropology of climate change by the numbers Anthropology Colloquium Series, University of Toronto 2:00-4:00pm, AP 246, 19 Russell St. This talk describes research on climate change, carbon accounting and carbon markets through an anthropology of what Jane Guyer et al have called the inventive frontier of numberwork. By understanding how human-atmosphere exchanges are translated into information, and thereby become subject to creative manipulations, it tracks an emerging ontology of atmosphere that is linked up with changing status of the human and its capacities for planetary transformation. This approach implies breaking with the literature's view of numbers as rationalization or as governmentality, to foreground the hopeful, transformative and often speculative investment of people who use numbers to diagnose, intervene in and profit from a complex historical moment. The ethnography was carried out with carbon accounting practitioners in Thailand, Beijing and North America. The results highlight the potential for an anthropology concerned with the planetary stakes of anthropogenic climate change. To register for this event, please go to http://anthropology.utoronto.ca/events/colloquium-jerome-whitington/Milan
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THUR FEBRUARY 12, 4:10 p.m.
Room 179, University College, 15 King’s College Circle
Please open the link at the bottom of the page for location map.
TARA ZUPANCIC, MPH, Director, Habitus Research
(brief bio below)
“Can Green Space Support Cooler Cleaner, More Equitable Urban Communities?
A Report of the David Suzuki Foundation "
(abstract below)
No registration or fee required; all are welcome.
Seminars are subject to change or cancellation.
Please visit
www.environment.utoronto.ca for schedule updates, abstracts and speakers' bios.
To receive regular email messages with the same information, please contact
Pavel Pripa at 416-978-3475 or at
environment.seminars@utoronto.ca
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ABSTRACT: Unprecedented urban growth has intensified health risks associated with extreme heat exposure and air pollution. Green spaces have a natural capacity to provide fresh air, reduce surface temperatures, cool urban air and provide relief from heat stress. Insufficient or poor quality green space in disadvantaged neighbourhoods can increase health burdens related to heat and air pollution. This session will examine the findings of a systematic review of the David Suzuki Foundation on how specific forms of green space can provide cooler, cleaner neighbourhoods for over 80% of Canadians who live in urban communities. The concept of environmental equity and why it is essential to urban green space planning will also be explored.
BRIEF BIO: Tara is the Director of Habitus Research. For almost 15 years, she has focused on environmental health research and policy that emphasizes equity and the priorities of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups She promotes policy approaches that combine scientific evidence with the knowledge and lived experiences of communities facing serious environmental health challenges. Tara has led both national and international forums to set research and policy agendas, including the Bonding Through Bars International Roundtable at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (UBC) and Knowledge Leaders in Children's Environmental Health, a two-year national program, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Tara is the co-founder of the Centre for Environmental Health Equity where she served as Associate Director until 2013. She is the co-author of one of the largest systematic reviews on Canadian environmental health research, which formed the basis of a pan-Canadian strategy on health equity and the environment. tara.zupancic@habitusreasearch.ca |
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REMAINING SEMINARS IN THIS SERIES THIS TERM:
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THUR FEB 26 PETER BERRY, PhD, Senior Policy Analyst, Climate Change and Health Office, Health Canada
THUR MAR 5
HOWARD HU, MD, ScD, Dean of Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto
THUR MAR 12 DAYNA NADINE SCOTT, LLB, PhD, Associate Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Osgood Hall Law School and GUS VAN HARTEN, LLB, PhD, Associate Professor, Osgood Hall Law School
THUR MAR 19
FRANZ HARTMANN, PhD, Executive Director, Toronto Environmental Alliance |
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DIRECTIONS: Please click on the link for location map:https://www.google.ca/#q=15+king's+college+circle+toronto