Tuesday, 2008 August 19, 7 pm
Ralph Thornton Centre
765 Queen St East (east of Broadview)
Free; refreshments provided

A free public forum on the future of Deep Lake Water Cooling and its potential to further reduce Toronto’s energy use,      Read more »

The Next Generation is launching a movie/speaker series with a screening  of “The Refugees of the Blue Planet” and a speaker  from No One is Illegal.     Read more »

Next Generation, one of the many local groups I belong to (this is one of those I’ve helped to start) will be screening Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” at the Ralph Thornton Centre this Tuesday.  They’ve asked me to present the flick in top-hat and tails.

“An Inconvenient Truth” screening
Tuesday, 2007 March 13, 7 pm
Ralph Thornton Centre
765 Queen St E (2 blocks east of Broadview)
popcorn and drinks for sale; admission free
(but donations to Next Generation
will be requested at the end)

From Mike Nickerson:

Why, when today’s greatest problems result from the scale of human activity, do business and government aim to perpetuate expansion?

The short answer to the opening question is that governments and businesses have always aimed for expansion.

Given that we are disrupting the Earth’s ability to support the next generation, however, custom and tradition are not good enough reasons for continuing in that direction.

Expansion may have been good in the past, but it will end civilization if we do not alter course and aim for sustainability.

You are invited to help deliver the wake up call, and to find out how much we have to gain from looking to living for satisfaction, rather than to accumulation and consumption.

Life, Money & Illusion and the Question of Direction
A Discussion about Reclaiming the Future
Saturday, 2007 February 14,  4 – 6 pm
Transformative Learning Centre
The Peace Lounge at OISE
252 Bloor Street West

If you can’t make this event, it will be repeated the next day.