Earth Day 2014: What Gives Me Hope

 Video: What Gives Me Hope? ...

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Julia Butterfly Hill : Roots and Vision -Seeds of Change

MAKE EARTH WEEK COME ALIVE!   

 

JULIA BUTTERFLY HILL – EARTH DAY SUPPER AND WORKSHOP – APRIL 23RD

 

ROOTS AND VISION: SEEDS FOR CHANGE

 

Wednesday April 23rd, Friends House, 6 – 9:30 pm

 60 Lowther Ave. Toronto (St. George and Bloor)

 

Scrumptious vegetarian dinner and interactive workshop with Julia Butterfly Hill.  Julia is a gifted storyteller and courageous activist who gave 2 years of her life to save a giant redwood she...

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Gambling on Extinction

On February 11th, 2014, Green 13 screened Revolution, by Rob Stewart. Traveling through 15 countries over four years, he discovered it is not only other species that are in grave danger - - it’s humanity itself. The film covers from the evolution of our species, to the revolution to save us. The current reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change support the thesis of Stewart’s film.



That same evening, Bill Spahic of Real to Reel Productions Inc....

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Alternative Investments - Clean, Green Renewable Energy

 


by Natasa Zupancic



The Event


Our Alternative Investments - Clean, Green, Renewable Energy event at the freshly renovated Annette Street Branch of Toronto Public Library was a great success – informative, inspiring, hopeful and promising. It was a rare (and thus precious) occasion of having in the same room representatives of four renewable energy cooperatives, each one at a different stage in their journey of not only changing the...

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A MOOC on Climate Change


Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided


It is now clear that without action on climate change, the world may become 4°C warmer by the end of this century. Such an increase would threaten to roll back decades of development progress; thus, we are at a ‘make it or break it’ point in time. This course presents the most recent scientific evidence, as well as some of the opportunities for urgent...

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