Archive for Ecology & sustainability

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

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 cover     Read more »

2011 Nov 18: Occupied Economies: Designing Solutions to Global Problems

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

This free event features:     Read more »

Celebrating Aboriginal people in Canada’s Boreal Forest

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.”     Read more »

Want to plant some trees in South Riverdale?

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).     Read more »

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

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.