Date: Monday, October 15th, 2012

Location: Driftwood Community Centre, Room 2

Time: 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

A Seat for Change is a grassroots community-university project to design sustainable furniture for the future Centre for Green Change in the Jane-Finch neighbourhood of Toronto. This new community hub will house the growing environmental education and green employment programs of the Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre’s Green Change Project.

We have been working to design furniture for the Centre for Green Change for a few months now. On July 26th, we hosted a “Design Jam” to start generating ideas with residents about what the space could look like.

We heard a whole slew of ideas and key questions about how we could breathe life into the Centre for Green Change’s programming and space, both inside and out. What could the furniture look like? How could it be flexible and adapt to a wide variety of programming and participant needs? How could we ensure that it reflects our values for a just and sustainable community?

We hope that you will join us on October 15^th as we continue the conversation about the Centre’s furniture. We will be working together to develop designs for potential furniture pieces, in anticipation of a two-day build workshop in York University’s woodworking studio on November 2^nd and 3^rd.

This event will be interactive and engaging. Please come prepared to fully participate and take a hand in our green change!

Please RSVP to Clara at clarasr@janefinchcentre.org or 416-663-2733, ext. 235

*We are also looking for designers, builders, ideas people, photographers, and other creative folk to help facilitate the design process and build furniture. Please contact us, if you are interested in getting involved.

Want to help us spread the word about the upcoming design workshop?

On Facebook you can post: A Seat for Change on October 15^th is proudly hosted by the Green Change Project and York University's Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS). The Centre for Green Change is coming soon and you should be a part of designing and building furniture for it! Visit http://www.irisyorku.ca/2012/09/furniture-workshop-design/ for more details.

On Twitter you can tweet: #Seat4Change October 15th @DriftwoodCC, The Centre for Green Change is coming and you can help us design it! #OurGreenChange #irisyorku

Check out our Facebook page and don't forget to tweet to @OurGreenChange about #Seat4Change!

Supported by: The Fulbright Canada-RBC Eco-Leadership Program

Come visit us at our 3rd Floor Open House to find out more about IRIS on Tuesday, September, 25, 2012. We are located at 305 York Lanes. The event will take place between 3pm and 5pm. Feel feel to drop in anytime, the IRIS team look forward seeing you there!

IRIS will be tabling at the largest event ever held on a University campus, YORKFEST.

Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2012, 9am - 5pm

Location: Campus Walk

Come visit us and find out about the sustainability programs and activities we have going on this year.

York will be hosting the Toronto premiere of the Treasures from the Far Fur Country this Friday!

Treasures from the Far Fur Country is an archival film event presenting excerpts from the newly transferred nitrate film footage of the silent film, The Romance of the Far Fur Country, which premiered in 1920.

This special screening includes rarely seen footage documenting the Hudson Bay Company’s activities and First Nations communities in the Canadian north in the early 20th century. The original film, The Romance of the Far Fur Country, was commissioned by the Hudson’s Bay Company for their 250th anniversary to present a history of the Hudson’s Bay Company and a portrayal of its contemporary workings as of 1920.

The epic journey took the filmmakers six months to complete, reaching remote Hudson Bay Company outposts from coast to coast to coast. The film was released across Western Canada, and was eventually re-cut for a British version and screened in London. Less than a decade later, the film disappeared from public view; the canisters of nitrate film stock were packed away by the HBC in an archive in London for safe keeping — but lost to the world... until now. No complete print of The Romance of the Far Fur Country exists, only the fragments that make up the whole, which were kept in the British Film Institute.

The screening will be followed by presentations that will discuss the circumstances of the making of the film, the recent efforts to return the films to Canada, as well as the projects that are underway to promote them to wider audiences and to the communities represented in the films. The viewing at York will also feature a panel that will discuss the implications and impacts of resource extraction and climate change in the Canadian Arctic.

Sponsor: Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies and the Arctic Research Cluster at York University

Cost: Tickets are $5 at the door and seating is limited (100).

Location: Nat Taylor Cinema (Ross North 126)

Date: Friday, September 14, 2012

Time: 7pm-9pm

For more informatio, please visit: http://www.robarts.info.yorku.ca/

TreasuresFFC_York-2 Film Screening

We look forward to seeing you there!

Environmental Capacity Building Opportunities

For more information on these events and to register, please visit our website:http://sustainabilitynetwork.ca

Paul Rowland

Paul Rowland became the Executive Director of AASHE on August 1, 2009. Paul was one of the founders of the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University where he served in a variety of capacities including Director of the Center for Environmental Sciences and Education, Coordinator of Environmental Education, and Director of Academic Assessment. More recently he has served as Dean of the School of Education at The University of Montana and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Idaho. He holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from New Mexico State University and an M.S. in Ecology and a B.A. in Biology from Rutgers University.

Links:

• Campus Services and Business Operations
• UNESCO Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability: 7th Biennial Meeting of the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions

Public Transit: take the 116 eastbound bus from Kennedy station to Guildwood Park entrance

Cost: FREE

Join us on a trip back through time, to a day and age when boulevard trees were nothing but an idea. Explore the deep rooted reasons why we need trees in our cities and what we need to be able to plant them properly. Learn where, who and why trees were first planted in cities and the challenges of planting them today.

Accessible entrance, reserved accessible parking, Green P Public Parking, TTC accessible.

Council Chambers, North York Civic Center, 5100 Yonge St.

Public transit: subway to North York Centre Station.

Registration at www.yourleaf.org recommended.

Thursday, May 17, 2012 - 7:00p.m. - 8:30p.m.

Cost: FREE