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It’s exciting to see various faith groups taking action to protect all creation, like the Green Choices for Faith Communities forum happening in Toronto later this month.

Visit ecosikh.org for more information.

Wednesday, 2011 March 30, 7 pm
Metro Hall, 55 John St, room 308/9
416-273-5312

The Annual General Meeting will include presentations on peak food, peak metals, population, pollution, and peak water. Adriana Mugnatto-Hamu will be giving a short talk about the relationship between peak oil and climate change. For more details visit Post Carbon Toronto MeetUp.

Annual Green Awakening Network
& Greening Sacred Spaces Forum
Saturday, March 26, 9 am – noon
Sunday, March 27, 8:30 am – 3:30 pm
Eglinton St George’s United Church, 35 Lytton Rd

Come and join faith communities from across Toronto and region for a day of inspiration and practical help on March 26. The event is for faith communities wishing to seriously take their commitment to ‘live with integrity’ in creation.     Read more »

Friday, 2011 March 25, 4 to 6 pm
Room 144, University College, University of Toronto
15 King’s College Circle

The General Meeting of Science for Peace will host a talk, Is Parliament Broken?, by Peter Russell, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto. Members of the public are cordially welcome.     Read more »

I’m a worrier. For most of my life, I’ve fretted over my children like many mothers do. Their health, their grades, their social development. The last few years I’ve been worried at a whole new level. When I was a young woman, analysts predicted a clean future powered by the sun and wind. They pointed out the urgency of starting this great transformation because a few decades later it would be too late. For multiple reasons including climate change, the imminent decline of oil and the stress on vulnerable but critical water and other resources, delay would bring on miserable results. That was a now a few decades ago. We are more dependent than ever on oil, our emissions keep rising, water tables are declining all over the world and food stresses are leading to riots in countries all over the world. Governments in North Africa are tumbling to populations that demand to be fed.

I remain hopeful that by investing in a green economy, we may still turn things around in time and deliver a future not too unlike the present for our children. That is what I’m working for, that is what I want to see – a Canada much like the Canada we all know, but moving boldly into a transitional economy from which we will emerge into a more permanent economy that’s more efficient and respectful of our limits.     Read more »