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Student Rate for GHG Inventory Workshop – ISO 14064 Standard

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A block of seats is being held aside for students at $ 100/ seat for this "Measuring and Reporting your Carbon Footprint Workshop" at Pinchin Environmental in Mississauga. Sorry about the expense, but it does include a "binder" with all reference materials, lunch, breaks and parking.

We will follow the ISO 14064 GHG standard and GHG Protocol Intiative. It is interesting that a "Growing numbers of businesses are expected to adopt a "shadow price" for carbon when making infrastructure decisions. The budgets will include a "shadow spot price" for carbon, which will be used to determine emissions costs for future design, construction and maintenance of its electricity and gas networks, management of its fleet and facilities, and any potential new investments."

All you need to do is go to: http://ghgmeasurement.eventbrite.com and click on Discount under the box that shows the pricing. You can then type in the discount code: Student

Measuring & Reporting your Carbon (GHG) Footprint Workshop

Date: May 12, 2010
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Student Rate: $ 100
Regular Registration Rate: $ 650

In a carbon constrained world, is your organization ready for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) measurement and reporting?

GHG reporting is already a requirement for large emitters (power plants) in Canada and in the U.S.  Increasingly Canadian companies are conducting internal GHG inventories to understand their "carbon risk" and to report to shareholders or customers like Wal-Mart.

Do you know how many tonnes of Greenhouse Gases your company generates through direct and indirect emissions? Are your customers or shareholders among the increasing majority requiring the reporting of  your GHG emissions?  Are they asking to see the  reduction plan?  

In this "hands-on" workshop you will work on the development of your GHG inventory and management plan.  You will learn about greenhouse gases and their effect on the environment and international and national efforts to reduce GHG emissions.  By the end of this workshop you will be able to develop your company's GHG management plan and understand how to quantify, report and verify your total GHG emissions.

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"Kick Start" your GHG Inventory in this Workshop

Using current case studies, best practice examples and hands-on activities you will:

· Understand the effects of GHG's on the planet and international efforts to reduce GHG's.
· Make the business case for GHG measurement, management and reporting.
· Appraise the principles of ISO 14064 and this standard's use in GHG measurement, management, reporting and verification.
· Apply direct GHG emission accounting to your operations and do GHG calculations for your direct (scope 1) and indirect (scope 2) emissions.
· Comprehend indirect GHG emission accounting and identify the other indirect (scope 3) GHG emissions in your operation.
· Discuss GHG quantification methodologies and their implications to your reporting and verification system.
· List options for GHG reduction including mitigation and offset strategies. Identify steps to ISO 14064 GHG verification processes.
· Create a plan of action for GHG Management for your enterprise.

Internationally Recognized GHG Workshop Leader

Hicham Elhalaby, M.Eng., P. Eng., Manager, Climate Change GHG,
Pinchin Environmental Ltd.

Hicham is the Manager of the Climate Change Group at Pinchin Environmental. He is currently instructing the ISO 14064 part 1 course and is leading the development of GHG inventories for national and multinational companies, including Canada's largest wireless voice and data communications services provider.  He is currently a Member of the Canadian Advisory Committee to ISO TC 207 Sub-committee 7 responsible for the development of ISO 14064 Greenhouse Gas standards. He is also advising a group of international investors on a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project to generate 450,000 tons of Certified Emission Reduction (CER) units annually.

At Pinchin, Hicham has led the analysis of the inventory design, data handling and monitoring systems in accordance with the GHG Protocol and ISO Standards. Hicham also has extensive international project management experience related to development, environmental and GHG reduction projects. Prior to joining Pinchin, he was the manager of the CIDA-funded Climate Change Initiative fund and the Environmental Initiatives Fund. He is also an associate environmental auditor with the British Environmental Auditing Association.

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About Sustainability Learning Centre

The Sustainability Learning Centre is a social enterprise dedicated to helping companies achieve competitive advantage through sustainable business practices.

Check out our website at : www.sustainabilitylearningcentre.com

Call us at : 519-855-9491


CLPE Lecture, Dr. Usha Ramanathan, New Delhi, India (May 11)

COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN LAW
AND POLITICAL ECONOMY NETWORK and the NATHANSON CENTRE
are proud to invite Students and Faculty to attend a CLPE Lecture by:

Dr. Usha Ramanathan
“Legality and Legitimacy: The Development Project and Mass Displacement”

Time: Tuesday, May 11, 2010, 12:30-2:00
Location: Ross S839

Lunch will be served

Dr. Usha Ramanathan is an independent law researcher based in New Delhi, India, who writes and speaks on the jurisprudence of law, poverty and rights. Her work moves around and between constitutionalism, human rights, marginalisation, the law's continuums, and the judicial process. Specific areas of her work include displacement projects, corporate accountability, questions of liberty, power, control and authority of the state and judicial power. Her work draws heavily upon non-governmental experience in its encounters with the state, a 6 year stint with a law journal as reporter from the Supreme Court, engagement as a contributing expert with institutions including the WHO (2003-07), the International Commission of Jurists (2006-08), Amnesty International (2004-07) and Rights and Democracy, Canada (2004-06). Some of her writings can be found at http://www.ielrc.org/.

Abstract: Dams, industry, roads, mining: these are among the constituents of the development project. Since the mid-1980s, displacement has become a central theme in development discourses. Resistance and protest from amongst project affected populations, and challenges to the model of development have escalated. Resettlement policies, and coming down on protesters, have been among the responses to movements and civil society action against projects that displace, or corporatise resources. Environmental concerns, and politics, are part of the amalgam. Institutions, including the judiciary, and international financial institutions, have had significant spaces that they have occupied.

An idea of legality, and legitimacy, emerges from this cauldron of activity, concerns and resistance.

RSVP please to Joanne Rappaport (jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca)


Plunder, Pollution and New Enclosures *location change* (April 20)

Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto invites you to
this special event:

Time:Tuesday, April 20th, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Location: Victoria College, Room 206
91 Charles St. West (Museum Subway Station)

Professor Andrés Dimitriu
Departamento de Comunicación Social, Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias
Sociales, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina.

Plunder, Pollution and New Enclosures
NO MORE "DOWN THERE" APPROACHES: CONSEQUENCES OF THE EXTRACTIVE MODEL IN ARGENTINA, ECOLOGICAL HISTORY AND WHY "LOCAL" CONDITIONS ARE OF GLOBAL CONCERN.

"The physiognomy of a government can best be judged in its colonies,
for there its characteristic traits usually appear larger and more
distinct.When I wish to judge the spirit and vices of the government of
Louis XIV,I must go to Canada. Its deformities are seen there as through a microscope"
--Alexis de Tocqueville

Andrés Dimitriu is full professor in the Department of Communication at the Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina.
Also he taught graduate seminars in Brazil, Canada, and Germany. He published numerous articles and books on political economy of communication, political ecology and critical views on development. Moreover, Andrés Dimitriu worked at the National Institute of Rural Technology in Argentina (INTA), and as an independent journalist, editor of several publications and filmmaker. He was Secretary of Communication of the Province of Rio Negro, Argentina (1983-1987), and headed a regional research centre in Bariloche, Patagonia. He is
a founding member of the Canada-Comahue Center. Currently he is co-director of the indexed THEOMAI journal>
(http://revista-theomai.unq.edu.ar/), a member of the Rural
Reflection Group Argentina (http://www.grr.org.ar/), and of the People*s
Assemblies Against Plunder and Contamination of the Patagonia Region,
Argentina.
He is a board member of the Latin Union of Political Economy of
Information, Communication and Culture (ULEPICC)
http://www.ulepicc.org/quienes_somos.html


Morris Katz Memorial Lecture in Environmental Research (May 10)

2010 Morris Katz Memorial Lecture in Environmental Research

Dr. Ronald Keith O’Dor
Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Washington, DC., USA
and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

Changing Life in a Changing Ocean

Abstract: New technologies demonstrated by Census of Marine Life projects have transformed the ocean from dark and mysterious to transparent and understandable. The Canadian led Ocean Tracking Network is one example that allows us to know when commercial fish and conservation icons go where and records the conditions they experience. Changes in atmospheric chemistry are warming and acidifying the ocean. Where life have to go to survive is still open to debate. Corals can’t move and perhaps even coral sands will dissolve! Traditional knowledge about fish distributions will change dramatically with warming. Why subsidize fuel burning vessels to search the ocean for fish when we could subsidize the tagging of fish so that they tell us where they can be caught cheaply with minimum impact on the environment?

Time: Monday, May 10, 2010
2:30 p.m.
Location: Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Bldg., York University
4700 Keele Street, Toronto

For more information please refer to the attached poster.


Eco Fest Niagara (April 18)

3RD ANNUAL ECO FEST NIAGARA
Niagara’s Greenest Trade Show!

Location: Niagara College, Glendale Campus (NOTL)
Time: Sunday April 18, 2010
10am - 4pm

Hosted by CLIMATE ACTION NIAGARA
Phone: 289-820-6440 Email: Can.info@cogeco.net

For more information please refer to the attached poster and Press Release.


Book Launch- A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance (April 7)

Book Launch

A Perilous Imbalance:
The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance

Political economist Stephen Clarkson and legal scholar
Stepan Wood introduce their urgent new analysis of Canada’s experience of globalization.

Time: Wednesday, April 7, 2010 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Location: Private Dining Room, Executive Learning Centre,
Schulich School of Business, York University

Welcoming remarks: Interim Dean Jinyan Li, Osgoode Hall Law School; Dr. Stan Shapson, Vice-President Research & Innovation; Dr. Dawn Bazely, Director, Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability Commentary: Professor Craig Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School

Advance paperback copies of the book (UBC Press, 2010) available for purchase at a special price

Stephen Clarkson is a professor of political economy at the University of Toronto and a senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation. Stepan Wood is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School and a Core Faculty member of IRIS.

About the Book:

As citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces. But they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human security, and the environment, often for the worse. This timely book argues that these imbalances need to be recognized and corrected.

A Perilous Imbalance situates Canada’s experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends: the emergence of a global supraconsitution, the transformation of the nation-state, and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state. It shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance, and advocates a revitalization of the Canadian state as a vehicle to pursue human security, ecological integrity, and social emancipation, and create spaces for alternative forms of law and governance.

Lunch will be served, Please R.S.V.P by March 31, 2010 to Joanne Rappaport, jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca


EcoDriver workshop (March 30)

You're invited to an EcoDriver workshop where you will learn to drive more efficiently, save money and the environment by adjusting driving habits and style.

Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Time: 12 - 1 p.m.
Location: 280 York Lanes

Cost: Free

Did You Know?

•On the highway, every 10 kilometres over the speed limit uses 10 per cent more fuel.
•Just one tire underinflated by eight pounds per square inch increases fuel consumption by four per cent.
•You could save up to $1,500 a year by choosing a car that burns eight litres per 100 kilometres instead of one that burns 14 litres. Bring a waste-free lunch; the cookies are free.

There is a chance to win a $25 Canadian Tire gift certificate from EcoDriver.
To sign up, e-mail Adam Arnold, Smart Commute NTV program manager, at aarnold@SmartCommuteNTV.ca. Space is limited.

The EcoDriver event is sponsored by Transportation Sevices, York University and Smart Commute – North Toronto, Vaughan and is presented by the Windfall Ecology Centre. EcoDriver is a project of Green Communities Canada and is delivered with generous support from Natural Resources Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment’s Community Go Green Fund.

For more information, please see the links below or see the attached posterhttp://www.ecodriver.org/
http://www.yorku.ca/yfile/archive/index.asp?Article=14570


Panel Discussion: on Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (April 8)

Corporate profits or human rights- Which should Canada champion in Colombia?
PANEL DISCUSSION: CANADA-COLOMBIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT

Time: Thursday, April 8, 2010 , 2010
7–9 P.M. (doors7 -7 - 9 pm (doors open at 6.30)
Location: New Horizons Auditorium, 1140 Bloor St. West (at Dufferin)

MODERATOR: Andrew Cash, NOW columnist, Davenport NDP candidate

SPEAKERS:
Peter Julian, federal NDP Trade Critic
Jasmin Hristov, author, Blood & Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia
Carleen Pickard, Council of Canadians
Sid Ryan, President, Ontario Federation of Labour
Yhony Muñoz, OPSEU International Solidarity activist
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Canada is set to sign a sweeping trade deal with Colombia—our hemisphere’s most egregious human rights violators where violence against indigenous peoples, Afro-Colombians, workers, farmers and journalists is a regular occurrence. More labour leaders and human rights activists are killed in Colombia than in any other country in the world. Yet, shockingly, this free trade deal does not contain substantive conditions to protect human rights. Instead, there is one obscene clause that would have Colombia pay fines when a labour leader or human rights activist is killed by the state military or by paramilitaries tied to the government. Why is Stephen Harper’s Conservative government, with the support of some Liberal members in Parliament, pushing such a bad deal?

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS:
CAW
OPSEU
Ontario Federation of Labour
Latin American Solidarity Network
CUPE Ontario International Solidarity Committee
Council of Canadians


CLPE Lecture by Dr. Virginia Mantouvalou (March 26)

COMPARATIVE RESEARCH IN LAW
AND POLITICAL ECONOMY NETWORK and the NATHANSON CENTRE
are proud to invite Students and Faculty to attend a CLPE Lecture by:

Dr. Virginia Mantouvalou,
School of Law, University of Leicester, United Kingdom

“Social and Economic Rights in Europe”

Time:Friday, March 26, 2010, 12:40-2:00
Location:Osgoode 104

Sandwiches and Refreshments will be served.

RSVP please to Joanne Rappaport (jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca)

Dr Virginia Mantouvalou is Deputy Director of the Centre for European Law and Integration at the University of Leicester, UK, and currently a Visiting Scholar at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington DC. She holds a PhD and an LLM in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and an LLB from the University of Athens. Her areas of research are human rights and labour law, two areas that she examines separately, as well as looking at the interaction between the two. Her book, entitled Debating Social Rights, where she argues for social rights in a debate with Professor Conor Gearty (LSE), is due to be out in August 2010 (Hart Publishing). In 2009, Dr Mantouvalou received an award from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council to work on a project on the socio-economic implications of civil and political rights documents.

Abstract: The constitutional protection of civil and political rights is widely accepted in Europe. This paper argues that social rights, defined as rights to the satisfaction of basic needs, are constitutional essentials, as much as civil and political rights are. Drawing on examples from the Council of Europe and the European Union and focusing on courts, the paper argues that the judicial enforcement of social rights can lead social change, and advance, rather than undermine, democracy. The challenge is how best to give effect to social rights that are haunted by Cold War ideologies. The key question involves the complex balancing that courts have to employ in resource-demanding claims, an issue that is well-illustrated in labour-related disputes.


City Seminar: The Vast Suburbs of Cairo (April 9)

The City Institute at York University (CITY) presents:
The City Seminar

An interdisciplinary series of presentations and discussions on urban landscapes, past and present.

Karl Schmid

Anthropology, York University

"The Vast Suburbs of Cairo:
Slums, Desert Studios and Tarnished Dreamlands"

Karl Schmid is a contract faculty member in the Department of Anthropology at York University. He has conducted research in Egypt on inequality and spatial control, included ethnographic, corporate, and archival analyses of tourism development, as well as the respatializations of the city of Luxor by the Egyptian government, World Bank, UNESCO, and the UNDP. He has published on methodologies of enclave-based ethnography and tourist imaginaries involved in the control of public space.
His new research projects include grasping the diversity of suburban Cairo and the relationships between its highly segregated areas, and the potential social and cultural implications of peak oil and an energy transition within the Greater Toronto Area.

Time: Friday April 9, 2010
12:30-2:00 pm
Location: 142
HNES Building
York University

For more information see the attached poster.
Everyone is welcome.


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