Title: PGSS Green Drinks event “Seeding Sustainable Food Systems”
Location: Thomson House Restaurant
Description: The PGSS environment committee is proud to present another Green Drinks Montreal event on Tuesday, March 29 in the Thomson House restaurant (3650 McTavish). There will be a mix starting at 5 PM, followed at 6 PM by a presentation by Laura Rhodes who is Food Systems Administrator in the McGill Food and Dining Services unit. She will talk on “Seeding Sustainable Food Systems.” Her presentation will be followed by a World Cafe Style Discussion.

Start Time: 17:00
Date: 2011-03-29

Title: Natural Builder’s Speaker Series with Kevin Rowell
Location: Mac Campus, Raymond Building: R2-045
Description: Kevin Rowell, Program Director of Kleiwerks International. Discusses how
high-quality and sustainable housing, using local and natural materials, can drive community-led development in poor countries. He has been working and living in Haiti for the past year, working on the country’s ongoing rebuilding process.

Tradition at Innovations Edge – Architecture in the developing world
Wednesday, March 23
5:30 pm in ARTS W-215

Earthen Architecture – Beyond the mud huts
Thursday, March 24 @ Mac Campus
4pm in Raymond Building: R2-045

Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2011-03-24

Title: Natural Builder’s Speaker Series with Kevin Rowell
Location: ARTS W-215
Description: Kevin Rowell, Program Director of Kleiwerks International. Discusses how
high-quality and sustainable housing, using local and natural materials, can drive community-led development in poor countries. He has been working and living in Haiti for the past year, working on the country’s ongoing rebuilding process.

Tradition at Innovations Edge – Architecture in the developing world
Wednesday, March 23
5:30 pm in ARTS W-215

Earthen Architecture – Beyond the mud huts
Thursday, March 24 @ Mac Campus
4pm in Raymond Building: R2-045

Start Time: 17:30
Date: 2011-03-23

Title: PGSS Presentation for World Water Day
Location: Thomson House Restaurant
Link out: Click here
Description: The PGSS environment committee is proud to present Joanna Eyquem of Action H2O on World Water Day (March 22). This presentation will focus on a key national campaign of the Sierra Club of Canada – Action H2O – which concerns water conservation across the country and management practices on the Island of Montreal. The presentation will start at 6 PM in the Thomson House restaurant (3650 McTavish). All are welcome!

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-03-22

Title: Gerald Butts
Location: Thomson House
Description: The PGSS Environment Committee is promoting a talk by Gerald Butts, president of the World Wildlife Federation of Canada. His talk will be in the Thomson House Ballroom. It will start with greetings at 11:30 AM, the presentation by Mr. Butts from 12-1Pm, and then an open discussion from 1-2 PM
Start Time: 11:30
Date: 2011-03-15

Title: Dr. Joe Schwarcz
Location: Thomson House
Description: The PGSS environment committee is proud to present radio and television personality Dr. Joe Schwarcz from McGill’s Office of Chemistry and Society next Monday at 6 PM in the Thomson House restaurant (3650 McTavish). He will talk about some of the ideas and myths behind the chemicals in the cosmetics industry, which has some $250 billion a year in global retail sales. His talk will be followed by a workshop on how to make some personal care products from commonly available substances.

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2011-03-14

Three McGill students, Audrey Yank, Amara Possian, and Maggie Knight, are in Cancun, Mexico for the next two weeks as part of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations (or, in UN-speak, the 16th Conference of Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)). From November 26th-December 10th, they’ll be working with 26 other youth from across Canada to make the voice of Canadian youth heard at the negotiations and to connect Canadians directly to what’s going on! Thanks to the McGill School of Environment, the SSMU Green Fund, the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Science, and the Department of Bioresrouce Engineering for helping us get here!

If you’d like to stay up to date on what is going on in Cancun and what the Canadian Youth Delegation is up to, here are a few ways:

1) Sign up for our newsletter, the CYDaily (a compilation of blogs, videos, podcasts, and photos from youth delegates we’ll send out each day of the negotiations) at http://eepurl.com/bAfB5!

2) Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Canadian-Youth-Delegation-to-Cancun-COP16/111589002241165

3) Follow us on Twitter: @CYDcancunCOP16

4) Check out our website: http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/

You can also keep in touch in French, si vous voulez:
1) Sign up for our newsletter en français, le CO2tidien at http://eepurl.com/bAfC1!

2) On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/La-Delegation-de-la-jeunesse-canadienne-a-Cancun-CdP16/161788517191378

3) On Twitter: @DJCcancunCdP16

4) Le site est le même: http://canadianyouthdelegation.wordpress.com/

If you’re especially excited about the negotiations, you can also:

1) Join the Home Team! The Canadian Youth Delegation will be working with a team of youth “back home”, who will be taking action to connect Canadians with the negotiations. If you’re interested, email Sarah at cycc.greenjobs@gmail.com! You can read more about the home team here.

2) Watch the negotiations live! Some sessions and analysis will be streamed at http://www.oneclimate.net/cancun.

Please pass this message on to anyone you know who might be interested in a direct link to the negotiations! If you have any particular questions you would like answered about the negotiations, shoot me an email and I will try to get you an answer through Facebook, twitter, email, video, podcast, or a blog!

Title: Indigenous Food Sovereignty
Location: University of Montreal, Montreal
Description: A Workshop at Food Secure Canada’s Assembly
Sunday November 28th 2:15 pm to 3:45 pm
University of Montreal, Montreal

Facilitated by Elisa Levi (One X One)
Resource People: Larry McDermott (Plenty Canada), Dawn Morrison (Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty) and David Welch (University of Ottawa)

Please join us to talk about Indigenous Food Sovereignty and the policies needed to support this vision. What are the barriers to Indigenous Peoples having control of their food systems? What policies need to be changed / created to achieve this vision? The Indigenous Circle of the People’s Food Policy Project has produced a policy discussion paper that will act as a starting point for this conversation (you can read it or download it at: http://peoplesfoodpolicy.ca/policy/indigenous-food-sovereignty). Please note that this paper is a draft, and our hopes are to improve this draft based on this workshop and on Kitchen Table Talks that have taken place across the country over the last 2 months.

There is currently a promotion for people to attend Food Secure Canada’s assembly from Montreal (please visit: www.foodsecurecanada.org). If you are registered to attend the assembly, please simply come. If you are not registered for the assembly and wish to attend this workshop, please email Amanda at info@peoplesfoodpolicy.ca

Suggested resources:

* http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/

* Food Sovereignty Assessment Tool by Alicia Bell-Sheeter – a publication by the Native Agriculture and Food System Initiative of the First Nations Development Institute. This is a fantastic resource that is applicable to First Nations and non-First Nations communities. Available at: http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/sites/default/files/tools/FNDIFSATFinal.pdf

Start Time: 14:15
Date: 2010-11-28
End Time: 15:45

Title: Buy Nothing Day
Description: (Compliments of S.T.O.P.): Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. Typically celebrated the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the following day internationally, in 2010 the dates are November 26 and 27 respectively. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by Adbusters magazine, based in Canada.
The first Buy Nothing Day was organized in Vancouver in September 1992 “as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption.” In 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving, also called “Black Friday”, which is one of the 10 busiest shopping days in the United States. Outside North America and Israel, Buy Nothing Day is the following Saturday.

Date: 2010-11-27