[ensu] 3 announcements
- From: matt.niedzielski@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: ensu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2004 21:25:32 -0500
1) Environmental week schedule
2) Gardeners' collective presentation
3) IES seminars
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1)
Tuesday March 9 ? Natural Environment Day
1PM: Being a Greener Citizen Series: Everything About Recycling(UC 244)
4PM: You Are What You Eat: Eating Organic In and Around CampusFind out where in
the area students can buy organic food, how to cook with it, and taste some
free samples!
(Sidney Smith Lobby)
5-7PM: Hart House Community Kitchen.
Local, organic, and eco-friendly foods. Cook with a conscience $5 fee, sign up
at the Hall Porters Desk.
(Kitchen, Lower level, Hart House)
Wednesday March 10 ? Built Environment Day
2PM:Bag Bowl and Spoon: Free Soup and Seeds! Also sign an anti chlorine
petition (in front of SAC). Sponsored by the Equity Gardeners (Front
ofSACBuilding)
2-4PM: Chill Out at Buzzwords: Free Coffee and Tea (Hart House Map Room)
8PM: ENSU Movie Night: Free Screening of the critically acclaimed documentary
The Corporation (InnisTown Hall)
Thursday March 11 ? Eco-Political Day
12-2PM: Free Lunch at ISC Sponsored by Radical Roots. First 50 People get free
organic vegetarian lunches.
11AM-2PM: Creative Sustainability ? Environment Fair on Organic Foods
(Hart House Great Hall)
5PM: Keynote Address: The Politics of the Environment Keynote speaker: Federal
Environment Minister David Anderson (OISE Auditorium) Free tickets at SAC or at
the Door
Friday March 12 ? Activism Day
12-2PMFree Lunch at ISC Sponsored by Radical Roots. First 50 People get free
organic vegetarian lunches.
11AM-4PMEnvironmental Activism Fair:Featuring UTERN Inkjet Recycling Program
Launch,and wind energy demonstration (Bahen Center Lobby)
1PM: You Are What You Eat: Eating Organic In and Around Campus
Find out where in the area students can buy organic food, how to cook with it,
and taste some free samples! (BahenCenter)
2PM: Water Conservation Workshop (Bahen Center B024)
4-6PM: Being a Greener Citizen Series: How to Fix Your Bike. (BahenCenter2165)
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2)
The University of Toronto's Gardeners' Collective invites you to a
presentation
on Native Plant Habitat Gardening in the City.
The presentation will be put on by Sarah Brierley, a Community Garden
Coordinator for Toronto's Evergreen. Evergreen is a Canadian urban
environmental educational non-profit organization, and has been involved in
a number of gardens in Toronto. Sarah has been highly involved in the Miziwe
Biik
Aboriginal Community Garden located at the Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment
and Training Centre.
The presentation is Wednesday March 10th, from 6-8pm. UofT Club House,
located at 21 Sussex avenue - 5th floor meeting room.
Stick around after the meeting to find out how you can become involved in
community gardening on campus!
For more information, visit http://sgc.sa.utoronto.ca or email
gardeners.collective@xxxxxxxxxxx
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3)
Institute for Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies Seminar
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WED MARCH 10, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
Room 2093, Earth Sciences Centre
(Huron & Bancroft; Geology section of building)
(north of College St., east of Spadina Ave.)
DAVID ETKIN, Natural Hazards and Risk Analyst, Adaptation and Impacts
Research Group, Environment Canada
"NATURAL DISASTERS: ROOT CAUSES OF VULNERABILITY"
(abstract below)
No registration required; all are welcome.
For more information, please contact
Mona El-Haddad, Series Coordinator (416-978-6526;
m.elhaddad@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Please check www.utoronto.ca/env/seminars.htm for abstracts and updates.
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ABSTRACT:
Natural disasters are complex phenomena, the causes of which lie to a
large extent in human behaviour that creates vulnerable communities. In
order to reduce vulnerability and thereby mitigate the risk of
disasters, it is important to consider underlying values, particularly
with respect to how people perceive risk, and view and interact with the
natural world. Advancing an interdisciplinary, ecological paradigm, it
is argued that disaster mitigation needs to be addressed through a
process that
results in a greater emphasis on our interactions with and reliance upon
the natural world, and the development of community resilience.
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Remaining seminars in this series for Spring 2004:
WED MARCH 24, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
PHIL BYER, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Institute for
Environmental Studies, University of Toronto
"WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SE ASIA: LESSONS FROM WASTE-ECON PROJECTS"
(joint IES and WASTE-ECON Program seminar)
WED MARCH 31, 2004, 4:00 p.m.
CHRIS KENNEDY, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Toronto
"THE URBAN METABOLISM OF THE GREATER TORONTO AREA"
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