Where: HNES Zig Zag Gallery, York University

When: Thursday, December 2, 2010 from 5:00pm-10:00pm

The Las Nubes Student Association will be hosting its 5th Annual Silent Auction. Photos taken in Costa Rica by students that participated in the summer field course will be auctioned off. Proceeds will go towards sustainable and environmentally conscious community initiatives in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor in Costa Rica. John Black, the President of the Ontario Field Ornithologists, will be speaking at the event.

There will be food served at the Silent Auction... and of course there will be Las Nubes Coffee too!

Where: Bear Pit near Scott Library, at York University

When: November 24th, 2010

This started as a class project for a psychology of Creativity class, and some collective complaining about the less than stellar food choices we have at York... And with the help of Regenesis @ York we were able to organize a unique, informative and verrry delicious Farmer's Market exposing students to local, vegan, and organic food choices.

The vendors at the Market will include 22 varieties of veggies, delicious baked goods, vegan alternatives, honey products, crafts, handcrafted soaps and other delicious/creative goodness!

Free samples and guides on how to prepare your produce!

For more information visit here.

The Way We Talk About Endocrine Disruption

Dayna Nadine Scott, co-director of the National Network on Environments and Women's Health, will discuss the environmental health effects of long-term, low-dose exposure to pollutants, with a focus on the Aamjiwnaang First Nation reserve near Sarnia, ON. This community, in the midst of Canada's largest petro-chemical complex, has seen a drastic decline in male newborns in recent years.

Monday, Nov. 22, 2010
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
The Four Seasons Hotel Toronto
21 Avenue Road (Tudor Stuart Room).
Please RSVP to admin@cwhn.ca

Directors of the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health from across Canada will share their work, and CWHN's new Executive Director will host.

Scott is cross-appointed between York University’s law school and the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Her current research examines the way we talk about “endocrine disruption” from critical perspective. She completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at McGill’s Faculty of Law, and a Fulbright Fellowship at NYU Law School.

Production of this event has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.

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Dayna Nadine Scott
Associate Professor,
Osgoode Hall Law School and
the Faculty of Environmental Studies,
York University
4700 Keele Street,
Toronto, ON
M3J 1P3
Tel. (416) 736-5721
Fax. (416) 736-5736
dscott@osgoode.yorku.ca

[photopress:SturgeonPR.png,thumb,pp_image][photopress:SturgeonPR.png,thumb,pp_image]November 24, 2010, 12:30pm-2pm, HNES 142

Film director James Cameron intended his 3D blockbuster, Avatar, to raise consciousness about environmental issues. Yet the plot of the movie has been criticized for relying on stereotypes of indigenous people, women and disabled people. How do we assess popular culture created for activist purposes?

Noel Sturgeon who joined FES this fall as a Fulbright Scholar will examine this question using a global, feminist, environmental justice and cultural studies approach.

Everyone welcome!! Light lunch will be served. Please bring your mug for coffee and tea. Many thanks!! RO>

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Noël Sturgeon is professor of women's studies and graduate faculty in American Studies at Washington State University. She is the author of Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action (Routledge 1997), Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural (University of Arizona 2009) and numerous articles on environmentalist, antimilitarist, and feminist movements and theories. She has been a Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers; a Visiting Scholar at Murdoch University, Australia, at the JFK Institute at the Frei Universitat in Berlin, and at the Center for Cultural Studies, UCSC; and a Distinguished Fulbright Lecturer at York University, Toronto.

What: People’s Assembly on Climate Justice

When: Saturday December 4th, 2010, 9:30am-5pm

Where: Sidney Smith Hall, 100 St. George St, SS2118

Cost: PWYC (breakfast and lunch included)

On June 23rd 2010, in advance of the G20, Toronto held its first People’s Assembly in community response to the climate crisis. Now on December 4th, 2010, activists, groups, community organizers and neighbourhood participants will gather for the second Toronto People’s Assembly on Climate Justice.

Faced with the illegitimate and false solutions promoted through the UN climate talks, La Via Campesina has called for the creation of a thousand Cancuns to counter the next round of negotiations in Mexico from Nov. 29th to Dec. 11th. For Dec. 4th, the Global Climate Campaign has initiated an international day of action, and the national call-out by the Council of Canadians to hold countrywide assemblies on the same day has been answered by communities across Canada. The second Assembly, as a manifestation of these calls to resistance, will serve as the launching point for a series of regular Assemblies in an effort to build a united movement for Climate Justice inToronto.

The challenge of the climate crisis can only be met with a coordinated response that will bring forth our power in numbers. It also requires that we confront the root causes of the crisis and not just the symptoms. Through a horizontal people’s process, the Assembly will seek to create a space where we can work together to share experience, knowledge, and resources in order to build a local response to a global crisis. The Assembly hopes to work towards this objective through channels of collective dialogue and community empowerment.

Our goal is to generate new possibilities and new hopes in order to bridge the gap from separately operating groups, communities, and individuals, to converge into one diverse, united movement. We must equip ourselves with the tools we need to fulfill our potential as an effective Social and Climate Justice community.

The Toronto People’s Assembly on Climate Justice

http://www.torontopeoplesassembly.wordpress.com

peoplesassembly.toronto@gmail.com

647-869-6496

Sponsors: Council of Canadians, Greenpeace, OPIRG-Toronto, Ryserson Student’s Union, Toronto Climate Campaign, Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

Endorsers: Canadian Youth Climate Coalition, Canadian Animal Liberation Movement, Canadians for Action on Climate Change, Community Solidarity Response Toronto, Earth Rangers, ecoSanity, Environmental Justice Toronto, Greenspiration, Indigenous Environment Network, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, Polaris Institute, Science For Peace, Toronto Vegetarian Association, Zoocheck Canada

The aims of the “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” are:
to disseminate information on the concept, aims and purposes of sustainable development so that it can be understood by a broad public, and will include elements relating to its environmental, social, economic and policy aspects;
to raise awareness among university students on the complexity of matters related to sustainable development and the need for personal engagement and action;
to provide an opportunity to introduce projects and other initiatives on sustainable development that are being undertaken at international, regional and local level by schools, universities, government bodies, NGOs and other stakeholders;
to discuss the problems, barriers, challenges, opportunities and the potential achievements with regard to implementing sustainable development, globally, regionally and locally
 
Target Groups

 
The "World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day" will reach a broad audience, comprising:
University students of all subjects;
University lecturers and professors;
NGO members, industrialists;
Interested individuals.

Format   
 
The “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day” consists of:
A set of 50 lectures in English prepared by some of the leading experts on sustainable development,
A set of videos on the scientific, economic and social aspects of sustainable development, which can be downloaded and
A discussion forum which will be on-line for 24 hours during the initiative.
The lectures are divided into four categories:
o        Category A: lectures on the theory and practice of sustainable development;
o        Category B: lectures on environmental, social, political and economic aspects of sustainable development;
o        Category C: lectures dealing with education, communication and training on sustainable development;
o        Category D: lectures describing local (i.e. at campus level) and regional initiatives, practical projects and other efforts involving different groups and stakeholders whose approach/methods may be replicable, transferable or likely to be of interest to a wide audience.
 

The following institutions are Partners of the “World Sustainable Development Teach-In Day”:
AASHE - Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
Disciplinary Associations Network for SustainabilityProf. María Novo, UNESCO Chair in Environmental Education and Sustainable Development, National University on Distance Education, Spain
Partnership for Education for Sustainable DevelopmentUNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
UNESCO