Weekly Email
From Common Energy UVic
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[edit] Getting ready for this week's email
Subject line: How can we build the movement we need?
Hi everyone,
First, it's awesome to see all the action going on throughout the campus these days! Second, this email includes a survey and if you're not interested in the survey you might miss all the great events listed below. So! Make sure to scroll through if you're not interested.
[edit] Next Weekly Meeting
The next meeting will be on January 19th at 4:30 in SUB, B028. As always, everyone welcome!
Tentative Agenda:
- GoBeyond 2010 Teach-In - next steps for outreach
- Sustainability 101 - report in and next steps
- Planning our late February events
- Making jobs for ourselves
[edit] Action
The movement we have is not yet the movement that we need. If we are going to transform our communities and economies, if we are going to create green jobs for all and achieve climate justice, then we need a movement that is smarter, faster and more effective than the one that we have today.
To help build that movement Common Energy is going to host a dialogue about how the movement can be organized to include more people more effectively on Thursday, February 25 and an afternoon open space session on Saturday, February 27. The afternoon open space will feature training sessions as well as discussion.
If you would like to help organize these events we would love to work with you. Either way, we'd love your feedback to help us make this event useful and targeted.
Please take a few minutes to answer the following questions:
[edit] Events
[edit] Tuesday Jan 26: How Not Why
Commerce Sustainability Club presents:
- Noted BC environmentalist and futurist Guy Dauncey, author of the "Climate Challenge"
- 6:30PM
- SSM A120
[edit] Thursday Jan 28: "Think Outside The Bottle: Forum on Water Sustainability"
- Event: Think Outside The Bottle: Forum on Water Sustainability
- What: Rally
- Start Time: Thursday, January 28 at 7:30pm
- End Time: Thursday, January 28 at 9:30pm
- Where: UVic, Bob Wright Centre, B150
Water is fast becoming a not-so-renewable resource and will undoubtedly be a focal point for many points of debate and conflict in the 21st century. It is something that affects us all, and in one form or another we all effect.
The true scope that this issue encompasses is of course enormous, but hopefully this forum will provide an engaging introduction!
Keynote speakers include:
- Dr. Tony Clarke- founder of the Polaris Institute and, with Maude Barlow, co-author of Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water (2003) with Maude Barlow; Inside the Bottle: An Exposé of the Bottled Water Industry (2005).
- Ken Wu— acclaimed activist, former director of the Western Canadian Wilderness Committee, and founder of the Ancient Forest Alliance.
- Suzanne Porter Bopp— activist and researcher for both the Polis Project and the Water Sustainability Project.
Issues to be discussed include: sustainable stewardship, the commodification and privitization of water, the effect of industrial logging on the watershed, and the environmental impact of bottled water.
This event is presented by the UVic Sustainability Project
[edit] Saturday Jan 30:Victoria Region Transition Initiatives Open Space for Cultivating Action
On January 30th Victoria Region Transition Initiative (VRTI) will be hosting the “Working Groups – Cultivating Action” Open Space event that will fully launch Transition Working Groups in the Victoria Region. The December 2nd Working Groups 101 event brought a number of committed people willing to help facilitate the formation of many of these W.G.’s.
- Jan. 30, 1-6 pm (registration @ 12:45 pm)
- St. John the Divine Hall,
- 925 Balmoral Road
Biggest Transition event yet! Join us for an afternoon of Open Space to kick off Transition working groups. If you’re interested in community resilience, re- skilling, food, energy, transportation, inner work, or any other aspect of Transition, and would like to get involved in concrete, local action, this event is for you.
Everyone welcome!
[edit] Saturday Jan 30: Requiem For a Green
- Saturday, January 30, Felicitas campus pub.
- Networking with other environmental groups on campus.
[edit] Putting Together the Weekly Email
Anyone can add things to the Weekly Email as it is being drafted on the wiki. Our goal is to have it largely ready by Friday night and then sent out by Sunday although circumstances do not always allow that. Simply go to the Weekly Email page and make your contribution to the template for the next email. All those contributing will then be included in the "cheers," line at the bottom.
Cheers, Jamie
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