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Please help release President Nasheed of the Maldives

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:18:54 +0000

President Mohammed Nasheed has been ousted by a military coup and is under house arrest. I’m taking a bit of time out of my campaign to urge everyone to help him. Please sign this petition and then write to Prime Minister Harper, urging him to use his influence to secure the release of Mr Nasheed.

President Nasheed was the first democratically elected leader of the Maldives. Hear why we need his voice to be free:

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Our children deserve better

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:36:08 +0000

I am so honoured to be the Green Party candidate in Toronto-Danforth again. My very great thanks to all those who participated in the nomination. I look forward to working with you to paint this riding a rainbow of green! Here is a part of my nomination speech:

Our children deserve better.

In my lifetime, we will burn through 80% of the available oil. Our generation has enjoyed unprecedented luxury. It’s our solemn duty to leave something for our kids
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Earth Hour 2012

Michela Pasquali — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:28:03 +0000

Saturday, 2012 March 31, 8:30pm

Support the world’s largest environmental event in 2012! Join the more than 52,00 cities and towns in 135 countries around the world that turn off their lights for one night. To find out more, visit earthhour.org.

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Durban climate negotiations update

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:42:14 +0000

I’ve been following the COP17 climate change conference in Durban, South Africa from right here in Riverdale. This will be a long, rambling omnibus post on my thoughts and concerns

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Elizabeth May at climate change talks

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:09:30 +0000

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Global Day of Action on Climate Change

Michela Pasquali — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:42:03 +0000

Saturday, 2011 December 3, 10am
Oakham Lounge, 2nd Floor, Oakham House
Ryerson University, 63 Gould St.

This event takes place half way through COP17, the 17th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, currently taking place in Durban, South Africa, until December 9.

Speakers in Toronto include

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Post Carbon Toronto: Transit City is Dead — Now What?

Michela Pasquali — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:16:08 +0000

Wednesday, 2011 December 7, 7pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St.

This Meetup will focus on the future of transit in Toronto with featured speaker, Steve Munro.

Steve will cove

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Occupied Economies: Designing Solutions to Global Problems

Michela Pasquali — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 19:41:33 +0000

Friday, 2011 November 18, 4:45 pm
Design Exchange, 2nd Floor, 234 Bay St

This free event features

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Celebrating Aboriginal people in Canada’s Boreal Forest

Michela Pasquali — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 18:56:49 +0000

Thursday, 2011 November 17, 7 pm
Room 1016, Wilson Hall, New College
University of Toronto

The Canadian Boreal Initiative and the University of Toronto Forestry Faculty invite you to attend this free event and “be inspired by Aboriginal leaders sharing their personal stories of their relationship with their land and their vision for their people.”

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Want to plant some trees in South Riverdale?

Michela Pasquali — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:09:13 +0000

Friday, 2011 October 28
South Riverdale Community Health Centre
955 Queen St East (near Carlaw)

Make a growing difference in our community! Come out and join the South Riverdale Community Health Centre to help plant about 60 Serviceberry, Elderberry, and Hazelnut trees in various assisted living and lower income housing locations around the Health Centre.

People (preferably with shovels and or wagons) interested in volunteering can come to the centre in the morning to help pick-up and then plant the trees (they will be in eight inch containers and will be about 12 inches tall)

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Post Carbon Toronto Meetup: Kyoto is dead — now what?

Michela Pasquali — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:37:33 +0000

Wednesday, 2011 October 19, 7 pm to 9:30 pm
City Hall, Committee Room #2

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu will be speaking at Post Carbon Toronto’s 83rd monthly meetup, which will focus on the current state of climate change. Adriana will present the political and science sides of the equation as they currently stand and the possible solutions she sees for the future. The second featured presenter, Dr. Danny Harvey, will be speaking about the latest discoveries in climate science and about Canada’s tar sands.

For more information, visit the Post Carbon Toronto Meetup site.

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Yes In My Back Yard Festival

Michela Pasquali — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 19:11:24 +0000

Saturday, 2011 Oct 22, 11 am – 4 pm
401 Richmond Street West

The Centre for City Ecology presents the 5^th annual YIMBY (Yes in My Back Yard) Festival — YIMBY AT FIVE.

From the website:

This festival provides a social space for people and groups involved in grassroots, locally-driven community development to gather, exchange ideas and strategies to effect change, and imagine their future city. It’s a chance to celebrate achievements and identify new challenges and opportunities, in an atmosphere focused on listening, learning and engaging.

To find out more or to participate in this year’s YIMBY event, visit yimbytoronto.org.

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Planet in Focus — Toronto Environmental Film Festival

Michela Pasquali — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:56:47 +0000

Wednesday, 2011 October 12 to October 16

The 12th annual Toronto Environmental Film Festival comes to the city this October. Featured films include Revenge of the Electric Car, narrated by Tim Robbins, The Whale, narrated by Ryan Reynolds, and Werner Herzog’s Happy People: A Year In The Taiga.

For the festival schedule or to buy tickets, visit planetinfocus.org.

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Why is that little girl in a pantsuit?

Charlie Halpern-Hamu — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 15:19:43 +0000

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From the grandparents

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:54:38 +0000

The Toronto-based group For Our Grandchildren has produced this wonderful video:

For Our Grandchildren – Something Must Be Done from Stephen Best on Vimeo.

If the video stutters, click on the HD in the lower-right-hand corner. Even in “low-def”, it’s quite high-definition.

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Moving Planet: Green Energy Field Day

Michela Pasquali — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 01:33:40 +0000

Saturday, 2011 September 24, noon-6pm
Queen’s Park, Toronto

Part of 350.org’s global day of action, Toronto hosts this event to celebrate the progress that Ontario has made on clean energy and to urge the government to go even further. The event will feature engaging speakers, including Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu at 3pm.

There will also be solar-powered live music, information booths and a Kid’s Zone with lots of fun activities. For more information visit the Moving Planet: Green Energy Field Day web site.

Update: Pictures and video from the event:

Adriana and Tim Whalley…

Also Penelope for Ontario, former Mayor David Miller, Sean-Patrick Stensil, Jose Etcheverry…

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More action against Keystone XL pipeline

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:25:17 +0000

I previously wrote about Patricia Warwick, one of the “Fabulous 45″ – so named because although they came to Washington expecting to face a $100 “post and forfeit” for defying the rules of the park in front of the White House, they discovered that those arrested the previous day were to be held for 3 days. The 45 risked arrest anyway.

The actions against the Keystone XL pipeline (which would enable a vast expansion in the capacity for oil production from the tar sands) at the White House continued for another 12 days after Patricia’s arrest, with over 1200 arrests in total, including east Toronto residents Sharon Howarth, the Green Party of Canada candidate in Toronto-Danforth in the 2008 federal election and David Wilson, an oil industry retiree. Tar Sands Action, which organized this demonstration, vows to continue working to oppose the pipeline

The action against the Keystone XL Pipeline is now moving to Canada, where activists are planning a sit-in on September 26. You can find out more and join here.

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Support climate activists opposing Keystone XL pipeline for tarsands oil

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:55:11 +0000

Update: Read Patricia’s first-hand report.

Toronto-Danforth resident and climate activist Patricia Warwick was just arrested in Washington D.C. while opposing the Keystone XL pipeline, which is to allow for the expansion of tar sands operations in Canada. President Obama is to reject or approve the plan later this year.

The “mug shot” photo was taken by the group Tar Sands Action. And here she is at the protest, in the red behind the sign, in a big sun hat:

Patricia’s arrest was covered in the Globe and Mail and Ottawa Citizen, where she was quoted as saying

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Food from Small Spaces Fair: Urban Backyard, Balcony, and Rooftop Food-Growing

Michela Pasquali — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:14:19 +0000

Saturday, 2011 August 13
2:00 to 5:00 pm
Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth Ave., Lower Level

From the announcement:

This is an eco fair on everything related to growing food in small, difficult, vertical, or rooftop spaces.

Displays & info on growing foods in containers, raised beds, and on rooftops

Vendor tables with supplies & resources for containers and food growing advice

Guided tours of the new Carrot Green Roof garden at 3pm and 4pm

FREE admission. Light refreshments, live music, and raffle prizes. Give-aways while supplies last!

Organised by: Community Animators – South (contact: martina@ecospark.ca or 647-208-1810)

In Partnership with: Carrot Green Roof

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Glen Murray: How much time? JustEarth townhall

Patricia Warwick — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:59:42 +0000

Glen Murray, Minister of Research and Innovation for Toronto Centre was on the panel with Adriana at the recent townhall.

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Adriana’s talk at recent townhall on “How Much Time?”

Patricia Warwick — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:30:39 +0000

Adriana was a panelist at a recent townhall hosted by JustEarth.

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Elizabeth on Bonn climate negotiations

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 14:41:04 +0000

Elizabeth May confronts the government on its twisting of reality in her first press conference as an MP, pointing out that the world demands a continuation of Kyoto.

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Wide agreement that energy must be expensive

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:47:23 +0000

Today, Ontario’s Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller slammed the Liberals for cutting hydro bills by ten percent, identifying the measure as a perverse subsidy. He stated:

The problem with the 10 per cent (cut) is it means the people who use the most energy get the most money back and that is a disincentive, a perverse incentive. It rewards and encourages increased consumption.

He then went on to criticize both the NDP and Conservatives for pledging to remove the HST from hydro bills

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Bill McKibben’s alarming new video

Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:43:54 +0000

If you watch through to the end of this short video, it covers why I entered politics. What is now at stake is food security, water security, and the ability to deliver the fundamentals of decent civil society. All of these are already stressed and becoming more so. Concerns about things like gas prices, while important in our current state of addiction, nonetheless need to be contextualized in a world of threats that are far, far greater.

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