52 Media Inc. and the National Film Board of Canada

are proud to present

WIEBO’S WAR

A film by  David York

 Wiebo’s War tells the story of a community at war with the oil and gas industry and asks:  How far would you go to defend what you value the most?

 Starting October 21

at the THE ROYAL

608 College St.
Toronto, Ontario

Filmmaker attendance:

Q&A on October 21

WATCH THE TRAILER!

nfb.ca/wieboswar

Hello members of CBERN,

The Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) aims to foster research, capacity building and public dialogue regarding business ethics in the Canadian context, through face-to-face events and online opportunities.  We're pleased to announce the following initiative held in conjunction with EthicScan as part of our capacity building program.

1.  Invitation: Please join us for a special CBERN education program involving a review of recent research on CSR standards. This online remote education webinar presentation by David Nitkin of EthicScan and a representative from the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC) will consist of a PowerPoint presentation followed by questions and answers. It is scheduled for Wednesday October 26, 2011 at 8:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time*.  This will be a one-hour session.  Feel free to circulate this invitation to colleagues who may be interested in the topic.

2.  Topic:  For almost two decades EthicScan Canada has been engaged with global and national corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting and disclosure standards. This PowerPoint presentation captures in detail several of the strengths and weaknesses of these standards, many of which were designed for industry sectors with problem products or services. There have been many interesting and significant changes in standards over the last decade. You are invited to review the application lessons learned from this comparative research study, and have any of your individual questions answered.  Recent clients of EthicScan's standards research include the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation.

3.  Technology: Through EthicScan's license of GoToMeeting software, you can participate in this online webinar both orally by phone, microphone or skype and visually through a computer at any location.

4.  RSVP: This education program is free but attendance is limited to the first 25 registered participants. Please confirm your intention to participate by contacting Hilary Martin, Research and Outreach Coordinator at CBERN, hmartin@cbern.ca, who will then give you your password. If there is additional interest, a follow-up presentation may be scheduled.

5.  Ordering of Individual Reports:  As part of a project assessing lessons learned from building frameworks for corporate responsibility standards setting, a team from EthicScan has completed a detailed review of the evolution, contents and strengths of over a dozen international standards.  Reports exist for GRI, CDP, Responsible Care, FSI, TSM, EITI, ISO 26000, the Equator Principles, Ceres, and six other standards.

6.  EthicScan:  The EthicScan Research Team includes Jennifer Bartholomew, Gillian Clinton, Shannon Mullins, David Nitkin, Daniel Nurgitz, and Sareh Pouryousefi.  For more about EthicScan, please visit http://www.ethicscan.ca/.

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*For individuals in Western Canada who would like to participate and are unable to due to the early start time, we will explore organizing another webinar with a later start time if there is sufficient demand. Please contact Hilary Martin (hmartin@cbern.ca) to indicate your interest.

Peter Sale will be coming to York to present his seminar, Our Planet Does Not Have to Die: A Discussion of the Environmental Crisis, and to promote his new book Our Dying Planet on November 22nd at 12-1:30pm. Location York Research Tower room 519.

Peter F. Sale
Assistant Director, Institute for Water, Environment and Health

United Nations University
and author of
Our Dying Planet. An ecologist's view of the crisis we face

While we have been causing the extinctions of species since the Pleistocene, humans are now poised to cause the disappearance of an entire ecosystem. Coral reefs as we know them could disappear from the Earth by 2050, all because of things we did to them. As a coral reef ecologist, Peter Sale has a particular perspective on the environmental crisis, and he uses his experience in this seminar to make four important points: We currently face a single, multifaceted, complex environmental problem, not a set of several smaller problems, and climate change is just one part. This problem is much more serious than most people realize, serious for people as well as for ecosystems like coral reefs or the arctic. The decisions we take, and the changes in behavior which we adopt, over the next few years will determine which of several possible futures we will experience. While most of these futures are quite bad, it is still possible to reach a future in which people enjoy prosperous, culturally rich lives in a sustainably managed environment. Will we make the right choices, and will we do so in time to save coral reefs?

"Our Dying Planet is about how and why our planet is dying, but its most important message is that this does not have to happen. We can prevent the catastrophe that is looming, but only if we act, and act soon. A good future is possible for the world and for humanity, but we will have to make the right decisions and take the right actions if we are to get there."

Come out to learn more about how to change our planet and why it matters.

Register to attend: www.schulich.yorku.ca/coerbregistration

Come join us on October 27th from 12-1pm at Glendon's Senate Chamber for the offical launch of the Glendon Campus Project website.

The Glendon Campus Project was designed with two goals. First, to share the knowledge about Glendon campus more widely. Second, to document the history and current state of environmentalism at Glendon. The project is intended to be a contribution to the common culture of those who work and study here.

Professor Stuart Schoenfeld will provide an overview of the website and Helen Psathas from Environmental Design & Sustainability, CSBO ,IRIS exec, will provide us with an update of the forest.

Check out the project's website at http://glendon.irisyorku.ca/ and join us on October 27th from 12-1pm at Glendon's Senate Chamber.

The fgl Open Global Business Society is holding its third National Civic Forum and CEO Summit on CSR on October 12, 2011.

Location:  University of Toronto, East Common Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
Registration:  http://www.fglsociety.com/

Ed Waitzer, Director of the  Hennick Centre for Business and Law
Pierre Gratton, CEO and President of the Mining Association of Canada
Roque E. Benavides, CEO of the mining company Buenaventuras in Peru
Diego de la Torre de la Piedra, Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact in Peru.

fgl has graciously offered to provide the NGO rate ($40 +HST) for CBERN participants who are interested in attending.

For more information, and to register, visit the fgl website:

http://www.fglsociety.com/.

Registration documents are located on the website's sidebar. You are encouraged to register in advance as space is limited.

Best Regards,

Hilary Martin

Research and Outreach Coordinator

Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN)
York Lanes 381
York University
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, ON M3J 1P3

Phone: 416-736-5809
Mobile: 647-771-5731
Connect:  http://ca.linkedin.com/in/hdmartin/
Twitter:  http://twitter.com/cbern_ca
Join:  http://www.cbern.ca/about_us/join/

Centre for Urban Energy Seminar Series
October 13, 2011
7:30am – 9:00am
George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre
ENG102, 245 Church Street
Ryerson University
Toronto, ON

Peter Love: Climate Change, Conservation and What You Can Do

Peter Love will speak about climate change as the most important environmental issue to face mankind. He will highlight the critical role conservation plays, the benefits of conservation and its challenges. He will refer specifically to what you can do at home, at work and in school. There will be lots of time for questions so use this as a chance to ask those questions about energy that have been nagging you for years.

Continental breakfast will be served.

Peter is a Hydro One Distinguished Research Fellow at CUE. A widely respected environmentalist with 25 years in senior management focused in the energy and electricity sector, Mr. Love is also both an Adjunct Professor at York University in the Faculty of Environmental Studies and First President of the Energy Services Association of Canada, a new organization that promotes government policies and regulatory support for more energy efficiency, renewable energy, and infrastructure renewal projects. He is also the President of Love Energy Consultants Inc., dedicated to fostering culture change and advancing sustainability.

In 2005, Mr. Love was recruited as Ontario's first Chief Energy Conservation Officer with the Ontario Power Authority where his leadership contributed to Ontario achieving a five percent peak demand reduction by the end of 2007. Throughout his career, he has made a significant impact on consumer and government acceptance of conservation and sustainability policy. Mr.Love was a co-founder of EnerQuality Corporation, created to deliver the R-2000 and Energy Star New Homes programs, and started his career with the Pollution Probe team that developed the "3 R's": Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Please RSVP to info@cue.ryerson.ca, with “RSVP to CUE October 13 breakfast seminar” in the title by Friday October 7, 2011.

Event is co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Chapter and the Centre for Urban Energy.

Ontario Tire Stewardship is now accepting entries for the 2011 OTS Student Design Challenge – a chance to dream up creative uses for recycled tire products to meet real world design challenges that could earn you a scholarship and chance to implement a winning landscape design at Toronto‘s Evergreen Brick Works.

The competition is open to students of landscape architecture and related disciplines currently attending a post-secondary institution in Ontario. Visit www.otsdesignchallenge.ca for more information

1. First Prize

   $3000 and your site design realized at Evergreen Brick Works!

2. Second Prize

   $2000.

3. Third Prize

   $1000.