Post Carbon London - Coffee Meeting

Submitted Fri, 2008-01-25 14:01 — lamantia

Post Carbon London is holding another informal coffee meeting on Monday January 28th, 2008 at 7:30 pm.

This meeting is simply a chance to come and meet other people in London & area who are concerned about peak oil and other energy related issues. Please come, so that together we can learn more, share ideas and think about how our community can deal with tighter and tighter energy constraints. Energy issues will become increasingly important as we enter an era of declining fossil fuel availability.

This is an informal meeting open for anyone to attend. Your attendance is important. It is by working together that we will be able to find effective individual and community responses.

Elephant & Castle - Galleria Mall 355 Wellington St.
London, ON,Canada

Event title:
Post Carbon London - Coffee Meeting

Start:
2008-01-28 19:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-28 21:30

Location:

Location(s)

Elephant & Castle - Galleria Mall 355 Wellington St.

London, ON
Canada

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Event Website:
http://www.postcarbonlondon.ca

Contact Email:
mail@postcarbonlondon.ca

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WCC Focus the Nation on Sustainability Week

Submitted Sat, 2008-01-19 16:55 — DavidM

Whatcom Community College Joins Over 1000 Other Colleges and Universities to Celebrate "Focus the Nation (on Sustainability) Week"

Some event highlights:

The Elephants in Our Living Room: Why Energy Decline and Climate Change Force Us to Plan for Sustainability by John Rawlins
1/28 11:30-1:30 PM Heiner Center, Room 209

FILM FESTIVAL 1/29 10:00-4:30 PM Heiner Center Theater
Broken Limbs: Apples, Agriculture, and the 1/29 10:00-11:00 AM Heiner Center Theater
The Ecological Footprint: Accounting for a Small Planet 1/29 11:30-12:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
The End of Suburbia 1/29 12:30-2:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
Global Warming: The Signs and Science 1/29 2:00-3:00 PM Heiner Center Theater
Seattle: The Future is Now 1/29 3:30-4:30 PM Heiner Center Theater

Webcast: The 2% Solution - Join Stanford University climate scientist, Stephen Schneider, sustainability expert Hunter Lovins and green jobs pioneer Van Jones and youth climate leaders, for a discussion of global warming solutions. Audiences can weigh in with cell phone voting. Our goal is 10,000 screenings—and a change in the course of history. 1/30 4:45-6:30 PM Heiner Center, Rooms 208 & 209

Sustainable Living in Bellingham By Mayor Dan Pike
1/30 7:00 PM Heiner Center Theater

An Inconvenient Truth, Slide Presentation by Scott Slaba
1/31 1:00-2:00 PM Syre Student Center Auditorium

An Inconvenient Truth, Film and Post-film Discussion
1/31 7:00-10:00 PM Syre Student Center Auditorium

More info: Whatcom Community College will participate in the nationwide celebration Focus the Nation Week, an unprecedented teach-in on global warming solutions and sustainability. Numerous events have been scheduled for the week of January 28th through February 1st, including educational and awareness raising presentations, a film festival, an interactive webcast, and a speech and Q&A session by newly elected Mayor, Dan Pike. All events are open and free to the public.

Focus the Nation is a national teach-in engaging millions of students and citizens with political leaders and decision makers about Global Warming Solutions. More than just that one day, Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions for America is an extraordinary educational initiative, involving over a thousand colleges, universities, high schools, middle schools, faith groups, civic organizations and businesses. Focus the Nation is a catalyzing force helping shift the national conversation about global warming towards a determination to face this challenge.

For additional information about Focus the Nation, please visit http://www.focusthenation.org. Download the attachment for a full schedule of events at WCC. Details regarding these local events and activities can be referred to Courtenay Chadwell-Gatz, co-chair of Whatcom Community College’s Sustainability Committee, at (360) 676-2170, ext. 3426. See email link below

Driving directions:
http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/AboutItem.phtml?art=43

Campus Map:
http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/AboutItem.phtml?art=39

Event title:
WCC Focus the Nation on Sustainability Week

Start:
2008-01-28 11:30 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-31 22:00

Event Website:
http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/content/BulletinItem.phtml?art=216

Contact Email:
cchadwel@whatcom.ctc.edu

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• climate change
• energy depletion
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• peak oil
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WWU “Focus the Nation” Panel Discussion Series

Submitted Fri, 2008-01-25 23:15 — DavidM

WWU “Focus the Nation” Panel Discussion Series: Panel Discussions

Monday, January 28th
12:00 – Tipping Points: Climate, Politics, Economics, Viking Union 464

• Can We Predict Global Climate Change?: Andy Bunn Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences, Huxley College, WWU.
• The Social Impacts of Global Climate Change: Rabel Burdge Visiting Professor in the Department of Sociology and Huxley College of the Environment, WWU.
• Historical and Modern Views of Large Scale Movements and Their Ramifications: Hart Hodges Assistant Professor in the Center for Economic and Business Research, Department of Economics.

6:00pm – The Addiction to Fossil : Alternative Fuels, Peak Oil, Public Transportation, Science Lecture 110

• Civic engagement in a post-carbon age: Woodring Professor, Victor Nolet
• Technology and practicality of electric and bio fuel vehicles: VRI Director and engineering professor Eric C. Leonhardt
• Alternative transportation and the challenges of moving away from one person per car: Smart Trips Program Coordinator Susan Horst

Tuesday, January 29th
12:00 – Food and the Future, Viking Union 464

• Fred Berman from the USDA Small Farms Program
• Sustainable Business/Restaurant Ethics: Leah Peterson Director of Sustainability Programs for the Colophon
• AgroEcology, Sustainable agriculture, and food security : Gigi Berardi-Allaway Chair of the Environmental Studies Department and the Interim Director, Institute for Global and Community Resilience
• A Local and Commercial Perspective on Food: Chris Kenny Sodexho Director of Operations

6:00pm – Developing Nations and Climate Change: What About China, Science Lecture 110

• Kristen Paris – Associate Professor in Political Science WWU
• Ken Cousins – Visiting Professor in Political Science WWU

Wednesday, January 30th
-Prospect, Response, and initiatives.

12:00 – Climate Change and Local hazards, Viking Union 464

• Rebekah Green – Research Associate for the Institute for Global and Community Resilience
• Tiffany Isaacs – Field Organizer for Washington State Public Interest Research Group

6:00pm – Faith and Climate, Science Lecture 110

• Staff member of Restoring Eden, Western graduate: Ali Illyn
• A Jewish Perspective: Rabbi Levi Backman with the Bellingham Chabad Center
• Campus Christian Fellowship: Jonathan Lytle Our Moral Future: Prof. Religious Studies

Event title:
WWU “Focus the Nation” Panel Discussion Series

Start:
2008-01-28 00:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-30 19:00

Location:

Location(s)

High St. Western Washington University

Bellingham, WA, 98225
United States

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Contact Email:
as.earth@wwu.edu

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Circles for Women

Submitted Sun, 2007-12-30 22:05 — bgilday

Circles of Women
New evening group begins Jan. 16, 6:15 -9:00 PM
Facilitator, Barbara Gilday, 676-0765, www.BarbaraGilday.com

Purpose:
 To connect with others at a deep level, share our stories, learn and practice tools for positive transitions and more fulfilling futures.

Principles:
 We all have the wisdom within to deal with whatever we are experiencing.
 Being listened to deeply, allows our higher self and wisdom to surface.
 A small group of caring souls, provides a container for healthy, holistic process

Process:
 Using the process called, Appreciative Inquiry, we will focus on the values and strengths we have brought to the best times of our
lives. From that awareness, we will turn & look at our futures & begin to look at our possibilities in new ways.

Event title:
Circles for Women

Start:
2008-01-16 18:15 (Calendar)

End:
2008-03-05 21:00

Location:

Location(s)

Bellingham, WA, 98225
United States

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Event Website:
http://www.bellinghambizeview.com/page/show/203

Contact Email:
journeys@nas.com

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• Appreciative Inquiry
• communication
• positive outlook
• relationships
• transformation
• transition

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Running On Empty film series

Submitted Tue, 2008-01-08 17:53 — MaureenL

FYI - The Canadian Centre for Architecture, 1920, rue Baile, is presenting a series of free documentary films in association with its exhibition "Sorry, Out of Gas". The three remaining films are listed below.

Running On Empty
A series of documentary films considering society’s addiction to oil and possible cures.

Thursdays at 7 pm
Paul Desmarais Theatre
Free admission

10 January
Escape from Suburbia
2007, 95 min.

17 January
The Power of Community: How Cuba survived Peak Oil
2006, 53 min.

31 January
Design E2
2006, 90 min.

Event title:
Running On Empty film series

Start:
2008-01-10 19:00 (Calendar)

End:
2008-01-31 19:00

Event Website:
http://www.cca.qc.ca

Contact Email:
communication@cca.qc.ca

• Film screening
• environmental design
• local agriculture
• peak oil

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