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Archived Events 2009
2009 Nov 16
Monday, 7:00 pm
Westdale Secondary School
700 Main St W, Hamilton, ON
"The Age of Stupid"
followed by open mic with Dr. David Suzuki
doors open at 6:00pm
Tickets $10 can be purchased directly from
Westdale S.S., by contacting the box office at sbb@hwdsb.on.ca
or online at www.ticketweb.ca
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CANCELLED
2009 Nov 20
Friday, 7pm - 9pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main St W, Dundas ON
Celebrate a Simpler Holiday Season
presented by Westfield Heritage Village
Free Admission
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2009 Nov 11
Wednesday, 7:30 pm
First Unitarian Church
170 Dundurn St S
Pat Murphy
Community Solutions
Author of "Plan C"
Co-writer and co-producer of the film
"The Power of Community
How Cuba Survived Peak Oil"
"Community Survival Strategies
for climate change and peak oil"
5th Annual Spirit of Red Hill Valley lecture
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2009 Nov 10
Tuesday, 7:00 pm
Health Sciences Centre, HSC-1A06
McMaster University
Gwynne Dyer
"Climate Change and the Threat of War"
20th Annual Bertrand Russell Peace Lectures
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2009 Nov 1
Sunday, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
St. Paul's United Church
29 Park St, Dundas, ON
"The Power of Community -
How Cuba survived Peak Oil"
Here is another chance to see this award-winning documentary
Discussion led by Richard Reble
Free Admission, light refreshments
presented by
Eco Churches of West Hamilton
Environment Hamilton
DO-iT
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DO-iT Public Meeting
Hamilton 350 Challenge
2009 Oct 23, Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main St, Dundas, ON
"Can free markets mitigate Climate
Change"
Panelists:
Don McLean - Environment Hamilton
Ashish Pujari - Assoc. Prof., DeGroote School of Business,
McMaster University
Mike Nickerson - author of "Life, Money & Illusion
- Living on Earth as if we want to stay"
Doors open at 7:00 pm
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2009 October 18
Sunday, 2:30 pm
Eco Walk
starting at
Christian Life Assembly
165 King St W, Dundas
walking to
St. James Anglican Church
St. Augustines's RC Church
Knox Presbyterian Church
In preparation of the International Day Of Climate Action
on October 24th Churches in the Dundas and West Hamilton
area invite you to an
Eco Walk, on Sunday, October 18th starting at 2:30 pm.
The Eco Walk will be hosted first by the Christian Life
Assembly, 165 King Street West, then proceed to other Churches
and finish at the location of the final host, Knox Presbyterian
Church, 23 Melville Street, and time for light refreshments.
At each stop there will be brief moments of reflection,
and prayers led by clergy or laypersons for the leaders
who will meet in December in Copenhagen.
They will make momentous decisions that will impact on you,
your children, grandchildren, and our descendents forever.
Please car-pool when possible on October 18th and drop your
refreshments off at Knox in advance. This event is organized
by the
Eco Churches of West Hamilton
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2009 October 6
Tuesday, 7-9 pm
50 Main St East, Hamilton
"Speed-Greening" Event
Are you passionate to do something about climate
change?
Then Join us for Hamilton’s first Climate Change “Speed-Greening”Event!
You've heard of 'Speed-Dating', but how about 'Speed-Greening'?
Speed-Meet 10 amazing people who are making
a difference including
CarSharers, a Raw Food Chef & an off-grid homeowner!
Tuesday October 6th 7pm-9pm
McMaster’s Downtown Campus
50 Main St East, Hamilton (between John & Hughson)
Admission is free - space is limited!
Email champions@environmenthamilton.org to reserve your
seat.
SEE
PDF FLYER FOR MORE DETAILS
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2009 Sep 21, Monday
12:18 pm
King & James, Hamilton
Be prepared for this - a
flashmob event
Individuals will make their own way to the
King and James
entrance to Jackson Square, mingling with the shoppers and
workers, trying to disappear into the crowd. They will set
their cell phone alarms(or any alarm or noisemaker) for
12:18. When all the alarms go off, everyone involved will
move towards each other on the stairs making sounds like
a ticking clock "tck, tck, tck". Drummers will
start drumming to set the rhythm for the clocks, and to
wake up our politicians to the dangers of climate change.
When we're all together on the stairs or upper level, we
will each move one arm in a circle like the hand of a clock.
Those who can, will do this while balancing on one foot
in a yoga pose.
We'll take a group photo in easy or hard yoga poses (finding
balance in the midst of change). In the middle of all the
noise of wake up calls, drumming and ticking, we'll each
phone politicians on our cell phone, demanding that they
craft a strong climate change strategy. Individuals will
bring the telephone number of a politician to phone, or
use one that will be available on site.
www.Avaaz.org
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DO-iT
Heart & Soul
2009 Sept 20, Sunday, 3:30 - 5:30 pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main St, Dundas, ON
To commune with heart and soul
for healing, empowerment & transformation
of ourselves and others
to promote Earth Wise Living
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Doc Night
"Toxic Trespass"
2009 Sept 18, Friday, 8:00 pm
Meadowlands Fellowship Church
216 Stonehenge Dr, Ancaster, ON
Meadowlands Fellowship Church welcomes you to the 2009-2010
season of Doc Night, hosted by Denise Neutel.
The new season of Doc Night begins September 18 at 8 pm,
when we will be showing the documentary Toxic Trespass.
All films are free, but donations are welcome to help cover
costs.
In Toxic Trespass, intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches
an investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around
us. She starts with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood
carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT.
Then, Cohen heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic
hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases.
Here, everyone seems to know children who have suffered
respiratory illnesses, leukemia, brain tumours and other
illnesses. And on the Native reserve of Aamjiwnaang, ringed
by Sarnia's "chemical valley," the film reveals
a startling birth rate problem that officials just can't
ignore.
This moving documentary is empowering and leavened with
wry humour. Carried by Cohen's passion for truth and her
disarming openness, it is essential viewing for anyone concerned
about the effects of pollutants on our, and our children's,
very DNA.
Films to be shown in 2009-2010 at 8pm are:
| Sep 18 |
Toxic Trespass |
| Oct 16 |
Club Native |
| Nov 13 |
Up the Yangtze |
| Dec 11 |
Everyone's Children |
| Jan 8 |
Triage |
| Feb 5 |
Dead in the Water |
| Mar 5 |
Invisible Nation |
| Apr 9 |
Weight of the World |
| May 14 |
The Strangest Dream |
| June 11 |
The World According to Monsanto |
www.meadowlandsfellowship.ca
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Canning Workshop
2009 Sept 14, Monday, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
St Augustine's Parish Centre
58 Sydenham & Melville St, Dundas, ON
Greening Sacred Spaces and The Hamilton Fruit Tree Project
(projects of Environment Hamilton), along with DO-iT are
teaming up to offer a canning workshop. We will be canning
pears.
All ingredients and equipment will be supplied by the Hamilton
Fruit Tree Project.
Bring yourself and your eager hands (and tummies)!
Contact Beatrice or Juby at 905 549 0900 to reserve your
place.
Space is limited!
Contact beatrice.ekoko [at] gmail [dot] com or contact
DO-iT
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NOTE DATE CHANGE for both events
Sunday, July 12, 2009
(was scheduled Saturday, July 18, 2009)
9am to 4:30pm at Old 99 Farm, 1580 Old Hwy 99.
Urban Permaculture II: Designing your living space
One day workshop with Peter Bane, publisher of PermacultureActivist.net,
well-known teacher, practitioner. Design your living space
for food plants, water uses, energy sources/use, ecological
fertility, all approaches to creating a more self-reliant
household. Follows on from our 2008 course.
Fee $75 waged, work in lieu, for unwaged.
Bring lunch/beverage for potluck meal.
Email Ian Graham ian@sustainablelifestyles.ca or call 905
537 0163 to register.
Limited to 15 people.
Organized by Dundas Sustainable Lifestyles Project
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
(was scheduled for Sunday, July 19, 2009)
9am to 4:30pm at Old 99 Farm 1580 Old Hwy 99.
Tree Crops in your yard: Woody plants for Food and Ecosystem
Health
One day workshop with Keith Johnson, internationally known
permaculture designer/teacher, horticulturalist, orchardist.
www.kjpermaculture.blogspot.com
Learn how to prune, shape existing and older fruit trees
and bushes, propagate new plants, locate and combine plants
in an urban setting. Learn animal, insect and disease protection
strategies. Hands-on fieldwork included. Handouts.
Cost $75 per person, work in lieu for unwaged.
Bring lunch/beverage for potluck.
Email ian@sustainablelifestyles.ca or phone 905 537 0163
to register.
Limited to 15 people.
Organized by Dundas Sustainable Lifestyles Project
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DO-iT Public Meeting on Food Security
2009 Sep 11, Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main St, Dundas, ON
Harvest Food Swap/Donation at 6:30 pm
Food Security
Buy Local
Backyard Farming
Garden Sharing
Doors open at 6:30 pm
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DO-iT Public Meeting
2009 July 24, Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main St, Dundas, ON
"The Power of Community -
How Cuba survived Peak Oil"
Doors open at 7:00 pm
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2009 October 24
International Day of Climate Action
350 Around the World
www.350.org
100,000
on the Hill
Environment Hamilton is planning activities at Gore Park
and other locations around Hamilton.
OK Dundas. Let's get 350 persons out to
a local rally to build community awareness in support of
bringing CO2 levels down below
350 ppm.
Start thinking of how we can make this an
exciting and fun event.
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DO-iT Public Meeting
2009 June 19, Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Dundas Municipal Service Centre
(formerly Dundas Town Hall)
60 Main St, Dundas, ON
Continuation of group discussions on the
seven Transition Initiative Groups.
Doors open at 7:00 pm
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Radiant City
A NFB documentary film (2006) about suburban
sprawl
2009 June 12, Friday, 8:00 pm
Meadowlands Fellowship
Church
211 Stonehenge Drive,
Ancaster, ON
Something's happening on the edge of town.
There's a desperate housewife in the parking
lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded
gun in the upstairs closet.
Welcome to Radiant City, an entertaining
and startling new film on 21st century suburbanites.
Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy,
joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the burbs.
Venturing into territory both familiar and foreign, they
turn the documentary genre inside out, crafting a vivid
account of life in The Late Suburban Age.
Sprawl is eating the planet. Across the
continent the landscape is being levelled - blasted clean
of distinctive features and overlaid with zombie monoculture.
Politicians call it growth. Developers call it business.
The Moss family call it home.
While Evan Moss zones out in commuter traffic,
Ann boils over in her dream kitchen and the kids play
sinister games amidst the fresh foundations of monster
houses.
A chorus of cultural prophets provide insight
on the spectacle. James Howard Kunstler, author of The
Geography of Nowhere, rails against the brutalizing aesthetic
of strip malls. Philosopher Joseph Heath fears the soul-eating
burbs but admits they offer good value for money. And
urban planner Beverly Sandalack dares to ask, Why can't
we walk anywhere anymore?
The dark era of resource scarcity is looming
fast, threatening to strike suburbia "off the menu
of history." But like a juggernaut, it sails intractably
forward, flattening all in its path.
Burns and Brown rummage through a toybox
of cultural references, from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos,
to create a provocative reflection on why we live the
way we do. Riffing off sitcoms and reality TV, they play
fast and loose with a range of cinematic devices to consider
what happens when cities get sick and mutate.
Cinematographer Patrick McLaughlin transforms
drab suburbia into great painterly cloudscapes, mesmerizing
rivers of traffic and eerie tableaux of dystopia while
the soundtrack features songs from Joey Santiago of The
Pixies.
Something's happening on the edge of town.
They call it Radiant City. Welcome to the neighbourhood.
www.RadiantCityMovie.com
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2008 Hamilton Environmentalist of the year
2009 June 3, Wednesday, 5:30 pm
Michelangelo's Banquet
Centre
1555 Upper Ottawa Street,
Hamilton, ON.
The Environmentalists of the Year awards
program is co-sponsored by the Conserver Society of Hamilton
and District, the United Nations Association in Canada-Hamilton
Branch, the Hamilton Naturalists’ Club, Environment
Hamilton, Royal Botanical Gardens, Friends of Red Hill
Valley, and the Iroquoia Bruce Trail Club with support
from the Hamilton Conservation Authority, the Bay Area
Restoration Council, EcoNet and Green Venture.
Tickets for the awards night are available
for $30 per person and must be purchased in advance by
June 1. Tables of eight or ten can be reserved. Tickets
can be purchased at Royal Botanical Gardens' shop, by
calling Environment Hamilton at 905-549-0900 or by e-mailing
contactus@environmenthamilton.org and in the west end
by calling 905-648-3391 .
Hamilton
Mountain News
The
Hamilton Spectator
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Dundas Driving Park Public Art
Ideas Charrette
2009 May 28, Thursday, 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main Street,
Dundas, ON
Residents, business owners and artists
in the community of Dundas and the surrounding area are
invited to participate in the Dundas Driving Park Public
Art Ideas Charrette.
Organized by the City of Hamilton Culture
Division as part of the planning for a new public art
installation in Dundas Driving Park.
A charrette is a type of consultation
in which participants are asked to work collaboratively
in small groups to develop a shared and holistic response
to a question of common interest.
For more information, visit
www.hamilton.ca/arts/dundasdrivingpark
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DO-iT Public Meeting
2009 May 15, Friday, 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Dundas Town Hall
60 Main St, Dundas, ON
Denise Neutel will share her experiences
with the ecoEnergy retrofit of her 1950s bungalow in Ancaster,
describing the process to achieve super, high energy-efficient
standards, while benefiting from government incentives
and rebates.
Doors open at 7:00 pm
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