CERLAC & the EIRG present

October 28, 2009

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Conference Centre

5th Floor, York Research Tower

York University

Please see the attached poster

SCHULICH TORONTO ALUMNI CHAPTER PRESENTS

Sustainability - Beyond the Hype Opportunities for your Business and your Career

Join us for a panel discussion to learn how you can benefit from the Sustainability movement. Find out:

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  • What are the opportunities
  • Where to find them
  • How to take advantage of them
  • What it takes to be successful

Our distinguished panel includes:

Garrick Ng - Vice President Sustainability, Innovolve Group
Innovolve has a passion for merging social, environmental and business imperatives. It is on the front lines of green innovation from green building, packaging, and behavior modification to transportation and green meetings. As societies around the world recalibrate we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to get it right.

James Downham - President & CEO, Packaging Association of Canada
PAC promotes responsible environmental practices across all aspects of the packaging industry. In 2009 PAC and Wal-Mart formed a strategic partnership to train Wal-Mart executives and buyers as well as manage the Wal-Mart Sustainable Packaging Exposition. PAC is also in negotiations to launch S-PAC; a sustainability rating tool for the packaging industry.

Michael Crawley - President & CEO, Aim PowerGen
AIM has quickly grown to become one of Canada's largest wind power developers. Its Erie Shores Wind Farm won the Ontario government's first ever renewable power tender. AIM is currently developing dozens of other projects throughout Canada.

David Bacon - CFO & Michelle Chislett - VP Solar Project Development, SkyPower Corp
SkyPower is on a mission to become the leading independent renewable energy utility in Canada. SkyPower has interests in a substantial number of renewable energy projects at various stages of development, representing thousands of MW of potential capacity. It drives all phases of project development including exploration, construction and operation.

Wednesday November 4th
Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Toronto
475 Yonge Street
Toronto, Ontario M4Y 1X7
(1 block north of Carlton Street, closest TTC station is College)

6 pm - Light Refreshments & Networking
7 pm - Panel Discussion
8 pm - Q & A
8:30 pm - Networking

TO REGISTER: www.schulich.yorku.ca/alumninov2009

Now is the time to

Make history by coming together on

Parlimant Hill this Octobrt 24

Canadian residents from all walks of life will speak in a collective voice

For more information click on this link .

Presented By :

BOLLYWOOD STAR, Rahul Bose

 and

SOLOMON ISLAND TEENAGER, Christina Ora

7-9 PM , TUE OCT 20

University Of Toronto

East Common Room

HART HOUSE

For more information please go to flyer:

Queen's Park , Toronto

Saturday, Oct 24 , 2 PM

For More Information Please Refer To This Flyer :

Presented by:

David D. Parrish

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Boulder, Colorado

Air Quality Across Large Temporal and

Spatial Scales

Friday, December 4^th, 2009

2:30 p.m.

Senate Chamber, N940, Ross Building

York University

When considering air quality we often limit our thoughts to a particular place at a particular time, usually the present.  The goal of this talk is to provide a wider temporal and spatial context for our considerations.  Temporally, photochemical smog (i.e. ozone pollution) in Los Angeles has been the subject of research and control efforts for five decades.  The progress that Los Angeles has made will be reviewed, and the temporal trends of ozone and other pollutant concentrations there will be compared with those from other metropolitan areas of the world.  This review may usefully inform air quality policy decisions in developing cities throughout the globe.  On the broadest spatial scale, the limited available data sets indicate that “background” ozone at northern mid-latitudes increased substantially over the past century, and this increase continues today.  Current global chemical transport models cannot accurately reproduce the observed trend, indicating that our understanding of the tropospheric ozone budget is incomplete.  A significant component of particulate matter observed locally also has been transported on intercontinental scales.  On regional spatial scales, transport between adjacent urban areas or air basins can be quite important.  Consequently, as local air quality standards are tightened, long-range and regional transport of “background” concentrations contribute an increasing fraction of allowable pollutant concentrations for both ozone and particulate matter, and the “background” concentration may be increasing, particularly for ozone.   In summary, effective control strategies for local air quality must encompass local, regional and hemisphere-wide scales and consider changing “background” concentrations as well as changing local emissions.

Organized by the York University Centre for Atmospheric Chemistry.  Email:  cac@yorku.ca

Harvey Molotch is a Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, as well as a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. His research covers urban studies, including sidewalk interaction, urban growth and development, and urban environmental issues. With John Logan, he is author of Urban Fortunes, recently released in a 20^th Anniversary edition.  His most recent book, Where Stuff Comes From, is on industrial design. He has also made contributions to the analysis of news media, the sociology of art, and race studies.

The following appeared in the Thursday, October 15, 2009 edition of Y-File:

U50 conference to look at mothering and the environment

Ecologist, author and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber will deliver the keynote address at the Association for Research on Mothering's (ARM) 13th annual conference, Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, The Built, which runs from Oct. 22 to 25 in celebration of York’s 50th anniversary.

The conference will include over 150 papers and 45 panels, performances and workshops by about 250 international scholars, students, activists, environmental agencies and workers, environmental educators, artists and mothers.

Steingraber, an internationally recognized expert on the environmental links to cancer and human health, will present “The Environmental Life of Children: Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on Child Health and Mothering Practices”. Her new book, Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to Motherhood, explores the intimate ecology of motherhood and the alarming extent to which environmental hazards now threaten each crucial stage of infant development. This is particularly important as, in the eyes of an ecologist, the mother’s body is the first environment for human life.

Right: Sandra Steingraber

Having Faith is a continuation of Steingraber's first book, Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, which presented cancer as a human rights issue. Living Downstream was the first book to bring together data on toxic releases with newly released data from US cancer registries.

Steingraber will speak on Thursday, Oct. 22, from 7:30 to 9:30pm in Lecture Hall A, Vari Hall, Keele campus. Tickets are limited. They can be purchased by visiting the ARM Web site or at the door for $20 plus GST & PST.

Professor Heidi Hunter of the State University of New York's Stony Brook University, will also speak on Oct. 22, presenting “Contexts of Ecofeminism, Mothering and Pollution in Contemporary Film and Literature”, while Sherilyn MacGregor (PhD '02) of Keele University in the United Kingdom will present “Care, Citizenship and Climate Change: New/Old Challenges for Ecofeminist Politics” on Friday, Oct. 23.

Mothering and the Environment: The Natural, The Social, The Built will cover a diverse array of crucial mothering issues as they relate to the environment, including maternal health issues, maternal environmental activism and global citizenship, sustainability and technology, mothering and environmental education, reproductive issues, breastfeeding and environmental toxins, mothers and social justice, mothering and HIV/AIDS, as well as environmental activism through the arts.

In addition to the main conference, there will also be an international embedded conference ? A Motherworld is Possible: Two Feminist Visions: Matriarchal Studies & The Gift Economy ? presented by the International Academy for Modern Matriarchal Studies & Matriarchal Spirituality (HAGIA) and the International Feminists for a Gift Economy network. The embedded conference will run from Oct. 23 to 25.

The embedded conference will feature panels and sessions with invited keynote speakers from all over the world, including: Professor Barbara Mann of the University of Toledo; Professor Pilwha Chang of Ewha Womans University in South Korea; Genevieve Vaughan of International Feminists for a Gift Economy; Heide Göttner-Abendroth of the HAGIA in Germany; Professor Valentina Pakyntein of North-Eastern Hill University in Shillong, India; and Agnes Fay Williams, a founding mother and advisory board president of the Indigenous Women's Network.

Marina Meneses Velazquez, a municipal councillor for ecology for Ecológico Juchiteco in Juchitàn, Mexico, known as the city of women, will talk about her work, as well as the relationship between protecting the cultural archeological heritage on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, while still protecting the biodiversity. She was featured in the film Blossoms of Fire, which celebrated the lives of the Isthmus Zapotecs of southern Oaxaca, Mexico.

Sobonfu Somé, a lecturer, activist and author, and a voice of African spirituality in the West, will also speak at the embedded conference. She is the founder of Wisdom Spring, which fundraises for wells and schools in West Africa and is the author of several books, including The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient Teachings in the Ways of Relationships and Welcoming Spirit Home: Ancient Teachings to Celebrate Children, and Community.

Professor Wahu Kaara will talk about her work. She is a former ecumenical coordinator for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, a Kenyan social activist and founding coordinator of the Kenya Debt Relief Network. She is also one of the 1,000 women nominated for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize and was the Dame Nita Barrow Fellow at the University of Toronto in 2008.

Topics in the Gift Paradigm section of the embedded conference include:

• Mothering and Gift Economy
• Gift or Exchange?
• Indigenous Peoples and the Gift Economy
• Generalizing Gift Giving
• Gift Economy and the Environment
• The Gift in Africa, Asia and the Arctic
• Gift Economy, Feminism, Anarchy
• Political Significance of the Gift

Topics in the Matriarchal Studies section of the embedded conference include:

• Matriarchies as Mother-Centred Societies
• Mothers in Indigenous Matriarchal Societies: Iroquois in the USA, Berber-Kabyle in North Africa, Palau in Micronesia, Khasi in India, Juchitecas in Mexico
• Aspects of Matriarchal Spirituality: Andean Spirituality, Holy Birth in Ancient Greece, Mother and Daughter Star Constellations, World Icons of Mothers and Grandmothers
• What Can we Learn from Matriarchal Societies?
• Matriarchal Visions of a Future of Peace

Both the Mothering and the Environment conference and the embedded conference will take place at McLaughlin College, Keele campus. For more information or to register, contact Renée Knapp, director of marketing, at arm@yorku.ca. For the full programs of both conferences, online registration or information, visit the ARM Web site.

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Creative Places + Spaces offers a range of options for students with admission ranging from Free to heavily discounted rates.

Creative Places + Spaces is one of the world’s leading forums on creativity produced by Artscape in partnership with MaRS, Martin Prosperity Institute and City of Toronto. Under the theme of ‘The Collaborative City’, this year’s event will engage global perspectives on collaboration and connect them with local change makers. Come meet some of the most creative thinkers in Toronto’s exploration of the art and science of collaboration.

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