CIAL Group
Events
31 May 2010
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June 2010
Windfall Ecology Festival June 12 & 13 10am-5pm Fairy Lake Park 520
Water Street Newmarket Ontario. The Windfall Centre provides technical
support and services for community based renewable energy projects. This
is the 9th Annual event featuring exhibitions of environmentally friendly
products and organizations promoting environmentally aware lifestyles.
An outdoor event with local and organic foods, buskers, Kids Fun Zone,
and workshops in a park setting. http://www.windfallcentre.ca
For exhibitor registration: http://www.gifttool.com/registrar/ShowEventDetails?ID=223&EID=6185
Event Coordinator Joanne Nesbitt registration[a]windfallcentre.ca tel:
905 727-0491 x 152
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Air & Waste Management Association A&WMA’S 103rd Annual
Conference & Exhibition. June 22-25, 2010. Calgary Telus Convention.
Centre. Calgary, Alberta. A new Mega Poster Session, trade show of environmental
technology and a technical program of 500 presentations. Technical presentations
list available at http://www.awma.org/ACE2010/
Registration at http://www.awma.org/ACE2010/index_small.php?pg=regformpage
Stampede Breakfasts of pancakes and coffee are free all over Calgary (as
always). Registrants can also purchase a white hat on the conference form
to really get into the Western Spirit (GL alert: cowboy hats aren't crushable
and take up a lot of room in your luggage and back at home where occasions
for weaing cowboy hats are mostly few and far between).
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3rd Annual The Ontario Brownfields Regulatory Summit. June 22-23, 2010. Delta Toronto East, Toronto, Ontario Session on the new Ontario Brownfield Regulations which are being phased in and enforces as of July 1, 2011 with representatives from the Ministry of the Environment as well as Chris Thompson Provincial Brownfields Coordinator at the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. . Diane Saxe, environmental lawyer will speak on changes to records on site conditions. David Flynn of Stantec, one of the sponsors will speak about the much larger amount of data which needs to be collected in more detail over a longer time for Phase 1 and Phase 2 environmental site assessments. Other session including transitional provisions, trends in securing financing in relation to liability, impacts on cost of insurance, views of owners and developers, A post-conference workshop is about new site conditions standards and their relation to ground water protection, shallow soil and waterfront properties. There will be a much greater emphasis on protecting water resources, for example,l if the site is withing 20 m of a surface water body, more stringent requirements for compliance apply. http://www.brownfieldscanada.com or registration@strategyinstitute.com
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Global Ecological Integrity Group GEIG International Conference. Ecological Integrity and Globalization: Science, Human Behaviour, Public Policy and the Law. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. June 27-July 3, 2010. Registration Fee.CDN$175 Campus and other accommodation available.
Among the topics are:
IUCN Projects in Ethics, Ecological Integrity and International Law
Plenary 1 Return to Integrity: Chair, Laura Westra
Plenary 2 International Law and Global Governance: Chair, Bill Rees
Plenary 3 Environmental Justice and International Law: Chair, Laura Westra:
includes David Boyd on “The Environmental Rights Revolution: Constitutions,
Human Rights, and the Environment”
Plenary 4 Environmental Justice and Sustainability: Chair, Owen McIntyre
Plenary 5 Ecological Integrity and Public Health: Chair, Klaus Bosselmann:
includes Colin Soskolne (CA) on “Canada's Sydney Tar Ponds: A Case
of Suppression Bias?”
Plenary 6 Environmental Justice and Governance: Chair, Colin Soskolne:
includes Peter Brown (CA) “Can We Find a Moral Foundation for an
Ecological Political Economy?”
Plenary 7 Ethical Implications in Ecological Concerns
Plenary 8 Environmental Justice, Health and Food Issues: Chair, Don Spady
Plenary 9 Ecological Integrity and Indigenous Peoples: Chair, Joe Dellapenna
Plenary 10 Ecology and Economics: Chair, Robert Goodland (US)
Plenary 11 Human Rights in International Law: Water and Ecosystem Aspects
Chair, Peter Brown
Plenary 12 Human Rights and Public Health - Session 2: Chair, Robert Rattle
including
Jane Kwasi (Kenya) “A Right to Public Health”
Plenary 13 Civil Society, Governance and Sustainability: Chair, Ron Engel
includes William Rees (CA) “Global Change and the Vulnerability of
Cities” 10:00 Vanessa Timmer, Meidad Kissinger &
Plenary 14 Ethics, The Environment and Civil Society: Chair, Philippe
Crabbe
Plenary 15 Environment and Economics: Governance and Civil Society Chair,
Ben Richardson
Organizers are: Laura Westra lwestra<>interlog.com and Bill Rees Wrees<>interchange.ubc.ca [Replace <> with you know what.]
GEIG started in the early 1990 with just 20 people and now includes more than 250 scholars and independent researchers worldwide, from diverse disciplines, including ecology, biology, philosophy, epidemiology, public health, ecological economics and international law. Check out the books and the proceedings from past conferences for perspectives on beyond business as usual. The new book, Democracy,Ecological Integrity and International Law, a collection of the papers from the GEIG conference in Firenze will launch in Vancouver. http://www.globalecointegrity.net
October 2010
- 20th Annual Conference. Wild Rockies and the Changing West. Society of Environmental Journalists. October 13-17, 2010. Hosted by University of Montana - Missoula. Register for tours in advance . There is a choice of nine tours including visits to Glacier National Park whose two glaciers may melt due to climate change. fishing and hiking in small groups the wild areas with discussions with experts on how climate change is already affecting Big Sky wilderness and the Clark Fork River, the largest superfund site in the US polluted by copper mining and smelter works. A day-long session led by Denise Dowling, a broadcast journalism instructor at the university will provide hands-on video training. Other sessions are on:
- Western environmental law,
- a summary from US-European Journalists Conference on differences in transatlantic journalism
- the future of America's National Parks
- the IPCC and the politics of climate change
- co-existence of humans and large predators (wolves. mountain lions and grizzlies).
- The opening reception and dinner will feature Montana's Governor Brian Schweitzer, CNN founder Ted Turner and food from Montana via the UM's Farm to College Program.
- Western Energy (solar, wind, geothermal and wave) and development effects on natural landscapes, wilderness and open spaces.
- A 20th anniversary celebration for SEJ at the Last Run Inn, a rustic ski lodge.
- a panel of western authors chaired by Bill Kittredge* will discuss what happens next. The conversation has been going on for 20 years "cow vs. condos, mink vs manure and trees vs board feet.... What are theWest's most pressing and salient issues?"
- sessions on the craft of environmental journalism: new media and venture capitalists, non-profit environmental journalism, designing web sites, a humour workshop, and teachning environmental journalism.
* William Kittredge in his book Hole in the Sky is quoted as saying "We ... must understand that the living world cannot be replicated. There will neer be another setup like the one in which we have thrived. Ruin it and we will have lost ourselves, and that is craziness."
Register online http://www.sej.org or call 517 485-2309 and ask for SEJ conference registration.
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Centralia 2010: a Global Business to Business Forum October 20-22. Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
Energy and environmental industries as well as other sectors worldwide
are invited to network with local small and medium businesses in Manitoba
through face-to-face meetings as well as at workshops. And for an experience
of a lifetime, there are among a number of excursions, a trip to see the
Polar Bears at Churchill on Hudson's Bay which also features the inland
post which provides shipping access to Manitoba. Programme is still under
development but a brochure is available http://www.centrallia.com/pdf/Centrallia-2010-Brochure.pdf.
[31 May 2010]. http://www.centrallia.com/event.html
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