Our event starts at 11 am on the 2nd floor of the Koffler House (569 Spadina Avenue). Come early for coffee and conversation at 10:30 am.
This science-based project changes the existential despair that many of us feel about climate change and global warming, to one of possibility. The project has enlisted 62 researchers and 140 advisers from 22 countries to model the possible solutions to global warming, restricted to the peer reviewed literature, for the amount of carbon reduced, the cost of implementation and the money saved. They have clearly shown that global warming can be reversed in 30 years and that the actions required to do so are socially desirable in their own right, such as reducing food waste, empowering girls and women and moving to a plant rich diet. The top 80 solutions were ranked and categorized by sectors. In this presentation our featured speaker, David Burman, will introduce the concept and provide some examples from the book by the same name.
David Burman is a graduate of the Faculty of Dentistry and PhD in community health from U of T. He has spent several years working in Cree communities along the coast of James Bay. His interests include indigenous environmental issues, spirituality, and the social determinants of health. David has been active in the peace and environmental movements for over 40 years. He was a candidate for the Green Party in 4 elections, and helped start Toronto’s first local currency system (LETS). He is an active member of Ecologos and Transition Toronto and has served on the boards of directors of ICA Canada, a community development organization, the Ontario Healthy Communities Coalition and Science for Peace.
Since 2009 David has been a trained facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream symposium and Generation Waking Up though the Pachamama Alliance, and a founding member of Unify Toronto, the aims of which are to bring Indigenous, holistic world views to the industrial world. This program is a complement to his teaching at U of T — Indigenous Issues in Health and Healing. In the past year he has been deeply involved with Project Drawdown with the objective of making Toronto a drawdown city.
Links: www.davidburman.net www.pachamama.org www.ecologos.ca www.ohcc-ccso.ca www.icacan.ca www.drawdown.org www.unifytoronto.ca
For our musical performance, we will have The Spanish Waiter, a guitar/violin duo featuring Mike Hopkins and his musical partner. Mike Hopkins, B.F.A., has studied Classical guitar for twenty years. In that time, he has performed a repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary pieces.
Mike’s musical journey has been influenced by Classical as well as jazz and other popular genres in the creation of his own original compositions. This culminated in his mini-masterpiece, The Spanish Waiter in 2008. His newest release, Hold Me Up – The Formula, came out on June 24th, 2017. http://mikehopkins.ca
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