Spring Bird Festival
Saturday, 2010 May 8, 7 am – 4 pm
Tommy Thompson Park (Leslie Street Spit)
There’s a whole day of activities planned, some of which require registration. From the Spring Bird Festival website:
Celebrate International Migratory Bird Day at the 10th Tommy Thompson Park Spring Bird Festival! Read more »
Climate Progress reports on the recent paper “Sequestering carbon dioxide in a closed underground volume” in the Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. Read more »
“I’ve got an idea — let’s play hide and seek!” Mary Travers spoke, as I recall, on the 33-rpm vinyl record by Peter, Paul and Mary called “Peter, Paul and Mommy”, an anthology of some of my favourite children’s songs. Songs I love.
Well, I have an idea: let’s save humanity so that many more generations of children will sing children’s songs. Not an original idea but let’s stay with it. Read more »
“Send forth your spirit,
And renew the face of the Earth.”
Missa Gaia
Sunday, 2010 May 2, 7:30 pm
Eastminster United Church
310 Danforth (at Jackman)
“Missa Gaia” is a contemporary ecumenical and ecological mass in celebration of Mother Earth. This dynamic choral work sets traditional mass and biblical texts to lyrical melodies with vibrant rhythms from African, Brazilian and American gospel traditions and interweaves the voices of wolf, whale and harp seals. Read more »
I’m being a sore loser today. I helped Andrew James this morning at the Danforth clean-up event. We didn’t win. Read more »
The Danforth Business Improvement Association (BIA) has invited the Toronto mayoral candidates and Toronto-Danforth council candidates to participate in their annual Earth Day Neighbourhood Clean Up Challenge this upcoming Saturday, 2010 April 24 on the Danforth. Read more »
爱德安娜 (Adriana) Mugnatto-Hamu 是我認識最誠實的人。
— 陳子松 三十區市議員候選人 (Ed Chin)
Adriana’s Chinese flyer text: Read more »
Earth Day Event
Thursday, 2010 April 22, 7 pm
Koffler House, Room 108
569 Spadina Ave, U of T
Speakers:
Sponsored by OPIRG and Toronto Climate Campaign. For more information, call 647-230-3257.
I’ve knocked on (nearly) every door in the riding and I’m starting all over again with a new postcard in May.
Here’s the new design for 2010:
Here’s the the text of the 2010 card: Read more »
Two great events the night before Earth Day. Read more »
Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 April 27, 7 pm – 10 pm
Gabby’s in the “Library Room”
729 Danforth Ave, east of Pape
We meet on the last Tuesday of each month. Please join us!
If you start at Chris Tindal’s campaign launch, you can make the night a pub crawl:
Chris Tindal’s Campaign Launch
Tuesday, 2010 April 27, 6 pm
The Pilot Tavern, 22 Cumberland St
(near Yonge and Bloor)
A few days ago, I attended the meeting about the new streetcar yards at Leslie and Lakeshore and the route the new cars are expected to take. As with most public consultations these days, the format was pre-determined to minimize disruption, opposition and effective input. It’s a veneer of public accountability masking a process that’s alienating and distant. Read more »
Emma Richardson
Ann Peel
Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu