In light of EARTH hour celebrations at York, Aramark will be featuring Lasagna with cheeses from Ontario tomorrow.
Options include: Hearty Beef Lasagna with a side of fresh garden salad and garlic bread, OR Veggie Lasagna with a side of fresh garden salad and garlic bread!
The locations offering the specials will be available at Stong Cafeteria, Winters, cafeteria, Tel, Café, Osgoode Bistro, and Central Square Cafeteria.
Thursday, 28 March 2013 | 12 to 2pm | 626 York Research Tower | Keele Campus | York University
With Kenneth Cardenas, Department of Geography, York University
In his talk, Kenneth Cardenas traces the role played by the idea of ‘irrationality’ in how Manila’s past and future is being imagined. It begins by reconstructing the experience of Manila with developmentalism, structural adjustment, and globalization to argue that the features of its urbanization which are often understood as consequences of irrationality were in fact produced by rational modern schemes for conquering and managing risks. It will then examine how the definition of disasters and climate change risk in terms of irrationality was used by experts, state agencies, and the Philippine media to articulate a vision for an exclusionary disaster-proofing of Manila by attributing the floods wrought by Tropical Storm Ketsana in 2009 to inadequacies in urban planning and an ‘irrational’ slum-dwelling poor.
Kenneth Cardenas is presently a PhD student in Geography at York University. He completed his MA in Sociology with Distinction at the University of Manchester, where he worked on examining how the definition and management of risks from disasters and climate change are being used to justify an exclusionary reconfiguration of Manila.
This talk is the final event in a series of talks on Urban Asia, organized by the City Institute and the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) at York University.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For more information: ycar@yorku.ca | www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/urban_asia.html.
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Save the Date: Keynote by Hevina Dashwood
Friday, March 22, 2013 - York University, Toronto
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Earth Hour Concert will be held from 7:30 to 10:30pm in Vari Hall. There will be bands and other musical performances. During Earth Hour, between 8:30 and 9:30pm, the lights will be turned off and everyone can listen to the acoustic talents of some of the performers. Because it’s such a big space, feel free to bring your own chair, blankets, pillows, towels and friends. The event is organized by Sustainability@YorkU.
The York Earth Hour Show will be held from noon to 2pm in the Accolade East Fine Arts Lobby (across from the Starbucks). There will be businesses on hand to showcase the strides they are making towards sustainability. This event is organized by Professor Jose Etcheverry’s Business and Sustainability: Issues and Strategies course (ENVS 3505).
RSVP on Facebook.
Urgent Action Alert from the National Farmers Union-Ontario: Stop the release of GM Alfalfa!
Tuesday April 9, 2013, 12 noon to 1 pm, Outside MP offices
Send out the email call to action: Click here to copy and paste the email.
Contact us to organize an event in your community or find out how you can support the day of action.
Organize an event:
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Why is GM Alfalfa Such a Huge Threat? GM contamination is inevitable because alfalfa is a perennial crop pollinated by insects. In Ontario, weeds are becoming resistant to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup): another glyphosate tolerant crop like Roundup Ready alfalfa would increase these weeds. Alfalfa is almost always grown in a mix with grasses and establishes readily without the use of herbicides. Farmers don’t want or need Roundup Ready alfalfa. If genetically modified (GM, also called genetically engineered or GE) alfalfa is released in Eastern Canada, it will have negative impacts on a wide range of farmers and farming systems, both conventional and organic. Click here for more information on GM alfalfa.
Why is Alfalfa Important? Alfalfa (commonly harvested as hay) is a high-protein forage fed to animals like dairy cows, beef cattle, lambs, poultry and pigs. It‘s also used to build nutrients and organic matter in the soil, making it particularly important for organic farming. If it’s introduced, GM alfalfa will ruin export markets for alfalfa products, contaminate family farms, make it more difficult for farmers to control weeds, and threaten the future of organic food and farming in Canada.
How Can I Organize an Action in My Community? The National Farmers Union and the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network have produced an action kit with details on how to make your action successful. We have posters, flyers, information on GM alfalfa and other materials to help you. Please also feel free to contact CBAN for direct support or to discuss ideas – call Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network at 613 241 2267 ext 25 or email Lucy at coordinator@cban.ca
What Else Can I Do to Help?
The following resolution was passed on March 2, 2013 at the NFU Region 3 Convention/NFU-Ontario AGM: "Be it resolved that the National Farmers Union – Ontario call on farm organizations in Ontario and across Canada, other civil society organizations and concerned consumers to join NFU-O members in a day of action against the release of GM alfalfa to be held at MP's constituency offices on April 9, 2013."
This call to action was issued by the National Farmers Union-Ontario, March 9 2013.
| DATE: Wednesday March 20th TIME: 2:30 pm -9:00 pm LOCATION: Michelangelo's, Lower Level, Atkinson College Program2:30-3:00 pm Opening Ceremony
Poetic Energy: Writing in a Warming WorldPoetic Energy: Writing in a Warming World is a poetry writing workshop in which participants will be asked to reflect on the role of reading and writing poetry in environmental activism, particularly dealing with issues of climate change, social justice, and sustainability. All levels of interest and experience are welcome! There will be an opportunity to share writing at the Earth Hour dinner celebration after the workshop. The Poetry Workshop is brought to you by grad students under the direction of Prof. Cate Sandilands, FES. Questions email Elana
Earth Hour Acoustic Night4:30-4:35 pm Saima Habib
Earth Hour Fair - throughout the whole day!
Sponsors
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An interview with the producer
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CERLAC, Casa Canadiense, LACS and IDS present A documentary film screen and discussion
My Village, My Lobster
Commercial diving and the Miskito Indians of Nicaragua
With commentary by
Miguel Gonzalez, York University
Maria Wong, Casa Canadiense
February 28, 2013
2:30 – 4:30 pm
519 YRT (York Research Tower)
York University
Along Nicaragua’s Miskito Coast, commercial lobster diving is the largest industry, employing over 5,000 Nicaraguans, mostly indigenous Miskito Indians who have few educational opportunities and almost no alternative sources of employment.
Filmed over four years, the film connects the lives of individuals and communities involved in the complex and incredibly perilous lobster fishing industry. It’s the powerful and harrowing story of the indigenous divers who risk their lives for the most lucrative resource of Nicaragua’s Miskito coast, the Caribbean spiny lobster.
This action-driven feature documentary is set against the backdrop of the visually stunning Caribbean in one of the most remote places in the Americas: La Mosquitia, the largest tract of rainforest north of the Amazon. Included is footage aboard a commercial lobster diving vessel and from the remote Miskito Keys – the fabled turtle hunting grounds of the Miskito Indians.
More info: cerlac@yorku.ca
http://www.yorku.ca/cerlac/events12-13.htm#lobster
Human Habitats and Ideologies of Sustainability
An Urban ASIA lecture on Kathmandu, Nepal
Thursday, 28 February 2013 | Noon to 2pm | 626 York Research Tower
With Anne Rademacher, New York University
When is housing an environmental problem? In this talk, I draw from long-term ethnographic engagement with the biophysical, cultural, and political dynamics of urban river degradation in Nepal’s capital city to describe the ways that conflicting concepts of urban ecology were used to categorize urban space as either “land” or “river.” As a consequence, thousands of informal settlements in the river’s riparian zone were either considered agents of degradation or icons of sustainability. When embedded in Nepal’s revolutionary political context, I further demonstrate the malleability of ecology in urban social life. I then turn briefly to more recent fieldwork among green design practitioners in Mumbai. Here, I consider how an emergent form of urban sustainability expertise, in this case environmental architecture, served as a critical arena within which ecologically appropriate housing was defined. In both cases, the social and political dynamics of sustainability in practice transform scientific concepts of ecosystem ecology into multiple and contested social practices of urban ecology.
This Urban Asia Speaker Series event is organized by the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) and the City Institute at York University. This event is co-sponsored by the South Asian Studies Programme and the Department of Anthropology, York University
ALL ARE WELCOME!
For more information: ycar@yorku.ca | www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/urban_asia.html
EVENT POSTPONED: TO BE RESCHEDULED LATER IN THE ACADEMIC TERM
The New Burma? Religion, Democracy and the Rohingya
Wednesday, 27 February 2013 | 4 to 6pm | 280A York Lanes| York University
The world has watched for decades, hoping for political reform that would bring freedoms to Burma. While the past two years have brought remarkable political and cultural changes, the hope of freedoms quickly gave way to communal violence targeting Muslims and ethnic conflict. This panel will explore the changes and challenges facing the new Burma, focusing particularly on the plight of the Rohingya.
With:
Anwar S. Arkani (Founder and President, Rohingya Association of Canada)
Kabita Chakroborty (human rights activist and scholar, Children’s Studies programme, York University)
Antoine Nouvet (regional analyst, SecDev Foundation)
This event is a part of the Diversity, Rights and Religion series organized by the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR).
For more information, visit: www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/diversity_rights_religion.html or email ycar@yorku.ca
