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15 November, 2012
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Green at a Glance
22 November
23 November
21 November
Sustainability: A Challenge
with Mike Nickerson
Buy Nothing, Eat Nothing
Hope in a Carbon Crisis
World with Grant Linney
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Hello everybody! We hope you’ve been having a great week! Thank you to everybody who came out to Alanna Mitchell’s talk last week!
P.S…………….
- Don’t forget to pledge yourself to Buy Nothing, Eat Nothing!
- Don’t forget to buy your Boardwalk Board!
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MACgreen’s own Scott MacDonald poses with inspirational speaker Alanna Mitchell
What: Buy Nothing, Eat Nothing
When: 23 November (festivities start at 7pm)
Where: McMaster Student Centre (CIBC Banquet Hall)
Live on Earth as if you want to stay! On 23 November join your colleagues and pledge to fast for 24 hours and abstain from buying anything in order to support climate justice!
*Make sure to pledge before 23 November!
Click Here for more info
Here is where you can get the lowdown on all of our cool campus events, including events from MOC, MAC Farm Stand, the Office of Sustainability,
and many more!
What: Sustainability: A Challenge Talk with Mike Nickerson
When: 21 November (2:30-3:30pm)
Where: MUSC 318
"Living on Earth as if we want to stay" is a presentation, with discussion where time allows, that introduces the challenges arising from the human family having grown to touch planetary limits.”
What: “Buy a Board, Buy a Boardwalk!”
When: Building day is 1 December
Buy a personalized boardwalk board for only $10! The new boardwalk will be an extension of the original, in order to preserve the foliage and provide a safer, more enjoyable hike along the Caleb’s Walk Trail. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: building day on December 1st, 2012. Email [email protected].
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More Events for You!
This is the place to find out about Hamilton-wide events. Updates and events from Environment Hamilton,
Hamilton Conservation Authority, Bay Area Restoration
Council, and many more!
What: Cooking from Scratch (with Good Food Box Contents)
When: 21 November
Where: Friends Meeting House, 7 Butty Place, Hamilton.
The Good Food Box is a non-profit fresh fruit and vegetable distribution program. It makes healthy fresh food affordable and accessible to everyone. GFB buys food at wholesale prices, with a preference for Ontario farmers.
Start time 5:30 pm, cooking together until 6:30 and end with a communal meal.
*A free GFB is NOT included, but you can obtain information about joining a Good Food Box program in your community!!
Contact Beatrice: [email protected]
What: “Finding Hope in a Carbon Crisis World”
When: 22 November (7-8:30pm)
Where: RBG Centre , 680 Plains Road West, Burlington
“What is the nature of hope in a world faced with daunting common challenges? Grant Linney, a career outdoor and environmental educator, has delivered over forty presentations on the behalf of the Climate Reality Project of Canada. He provides practical strategies and solutions that everybody can apply to their lives.”
What: RBG Get Back to Nature Walk
When: 18 November (2-3pm)
Where: Cootes North Shore, Dundas, Meet at the Nature Centre, Arboretum location, Old Guelph Road.
Midterms stressing you out? Want to get out and smell the fresh fall air?
Take a hike with the RBG and get back to Nature! Meet the group at Cootes North Shore.
The event will be cancelled in the event of inclement weather.
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Sustainability
Tips Read on for tips on how to do your part in mitigating waste!
Party Smart!
One way to party smart is to cut down consumption of plastic red cups! Try washing your cups after a party, or perhaps finding some reusable cups. Or you can just make sure to recycle them!
Happy partying!
Party smart!
Reusable Bottles
One very important and very easy way to help the planet is to simply buy a reusable water bottle! You (yes you) can save a lot of money,
and a lot of plastic from entering
landfills and waterways.
Did You Know?
Bottled water can be 800-5,000 times more expensive than tap water, and creates 400 times more carbon dioxide – Jones 2010
Featured Doc Garbage Island
Vice sails to the North Pacific Gyre, collecting point for all of the ocean’s flotsam and home of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch: a mythical, Texas-sized island made entirely of our trash.
Green Business
The Global Village Market
Located in Westdale Village, the Global Village Market is a great local market for organic and fair trade items. “Global Village Market is your destination for Organic Fair Trade Certified coffee and other alternative products from around the world. We shop for you to find the finest selection of quality foods which are both locally and globally produced.”
Volunteer Opportunities:
MACgreen
Hello all! We’re looking for some volunteers to put together some Used But Not Bruised Notebooks! You will help our team put together notebooks one night a week. Snacks provided!
Email us at: [email protected]
Questions? Visit:
http://www.globalvillagemarket.ca
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Union Market is now selling MACgreen's Used But Not Bruised notebooks!
Pick yours up today for only $1!
The Used But Not Bruised notebook campaign is a
project coordinated by MACgreen volunteers.
Interested in volunteering for the program? Shoot us an email: [email protected].
Dish It Out!
A program designed to help make events waste free. The program can benefit YOU in two ways: 1. Environmental 2. Economic
This program only accrues a small fee for dishwashing costs.
We have a large selection of dishes and cutlery that can be rented out for anything from large events to small meetings.
“Enbridge rebuffs B.C. demand for Gateway
compensation” “Enbridge Inc. is rejecting two key tenets of the B.C. government’s position on the Northern Gateway pipeline – that compensation should be tied to environmental risk and the project is effectively dead if the New Democratic Party wins next spring’s election. ‘It’s not a question of trading off risk and profit or risk and reward,” Enbridge chief executive officer Al Monaco told The Globe and Mail. “Safety is the first thing. Once you have that, our job is to mitigate the risks as much as possible. So we’re not looking at this as boy, if there are more benefits, there are more risks that can be taken.’”
Read the full article HERE
“Celebrating Fifty Years of Conservation Success”
2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC)!
Click HERE for a rundown on the history of the NCC in Canada.
NCC at a glance The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is the nation’s leading not-for-profit, private land conservation organization, working to protect our most important natural areas and the species they sustain. Since 1962, NCC and its partners have helped to protect more than 2.6 million acres (one million hectares), coast to coast. For more information, visit natureconservancy.ca.
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