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This morning, a group of 30 Greens from all over the world gathered for breakfast in Cancun.  Most were officeholders in Europe, either in the EU Parliament or in country governments.  But municipal councillor Cathy Oke arrived from Melbourne, Australia, former Santa Monica mayor Mike Feinstein came from the United States, and four Canadian Greens joined in with three Brazilians, including the leader of the Brazilian Greens, Senator Marina Silva, who gathered 20 million votes in the last presidential election, earning 20% of the popular vote, 30% of the urban vote and winning the popular vote outright in Brazil’s capital city of Brasilia.

I had wanted to meet Marina ever since she left Lula’s government over disagreements about dam-building and other environmentally damaging policies and began to consider running for the Greens.     Read more »

Monthly Danforth Greens Pub Night
Tuesday, 2010 November 30, 7 pm – 10 pm
Gabby’s in the “Library Room”
729 Danforth Ave, east of Pape

Please join us on the last Tuesday of each month.  It’ll be fun. No, really.

I invite everyone to enjoy a solar-heated potluck Thanksgiving dinner with my family at our home.  My friend Rita is lending us her solar oven, which we’ll set up in the yard.  Bring something to share.  Make it local if you can to cut down on emissions because this event is one of the Global Work Day events to fight climate change.  We’ll share whatever is left over with a soup kitchen to honour the first annual World Homeless Day.

Thanksgiving solar potluck dinner
Sunday, 2010 October 10, 5pm – 9pm
18 Victor Ave (2 blocks north of Gerrard; just east of Broadview)
all welcome

I’ll be at the Ride for Renewables on October 3.  We meet at the Exhibition Place wind turbine with our bikes.  You can come early if you need a tune-up.  We’ll be visiting six green energy projects as inspiration for the 10/10/10 events the following week.

Ride for Renewables
Sunday, 2010 October 3, 11am – 3pm
Exhibition Place wind turbine (with bicycle)
All cyclists welcome – free