AGM
Pre-Register for the AGM 2012
CUSJ Annual General Meeting (AGM)
For 2012 more information will be posted as soon as possible.
Below the program as it was in 2011
Friday May 20, 2011 Toronto
Church of the Holy Trinity – 10 Trinity Square,
Toronto, ON
Across Bay St. from Nathan Phillips Square
AGM 2011 Directions to Holy Trinity
Making the Desired Future Real
8:30 to 9:00 — Registration and Coffee
9:00 to noon – Clarifying Our Mission and Honing Our Voice
Toronto Chapter (Toronto First, Don Heights & Mississauga) welcomes you
CUSJ members and friends will engage in an interactive process to develop and strengthen who we are and what we are doing.
12:00 – 1:00 — Networking lunch — on your own with friends.
1:00 – 1:45 — AGM
Mike Nickerson, author of "Life, Money, and Illusion"
2:00 -4:00 — Speakers Mike Nickerson, Mairy Beam, and Judy Velland will stimulate a discussion and sharing on all the ways forward and how people are working towards the New Economy.
5:00 CUSJ Dinner at Spring Rolls, 40 Dundas St. West
Mike’s Website
Living On Earth as If We Want To Stay
Mike Nickerson will present the challenge that we face as a species, now that we understand that the old goals and structures of our society are at the root of many social, ecological and environmental problems.
As a species we have been living through a period of childhood and adolescence. We need to grow up. Having never been mature as a species before, we have little precedence for a mature cultural form.
That said there are a large number of organizations that have seen the problems unfolding in the various areas and have done extensive work at pioneering how they can be resolved. As M. K. Hubbert, the father of the Hubbert Curve upon which the concept of Peak Oil is based, said, “Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.”
Mike calls us to gather our common concern into a wake up call to the human family, to make it clear that we now have to use what we know and design our society and its structures with the health of the planet in mind.
Judy Velland, Green Neighbours, Toronto
Judy Velland
Judy worked for the Recycling Council of Ontario in the 1970’s-80’s doing education on the 3 Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Compost. She then went on to do very different work for one of the Out of the Cold programs in Toronto.
But in her retirement, she felt compelled to respond in some way to the pressing environmental and energy challenges that we face. In February of 2007, she helped launch a group in her neighbourhood called Green Neighbours 21. It holds regular meetings with speakers and films, and hosts larger events such as conservation fairs and all-candidates’ meetings. It also undertook a major 18-month project called Green Together that helped homeowners through the process of getting an energy audit and making energy-saving changes in their homes.
Mairy Beam, Whole Village
Mairy Beam
I have long been concerned with lessening my environmental footprint. Currently I live in an eco-village, Whole Village.
Whole Village is an intentional community where we attempt to live in harmony with each other and with nature. We grow a significant amount of our own food and buy the rest in bulk from an organic food coop.
We share resources and perhaps, more importantly, information amongst ourselves, with our neighbours, visitors, and with school groups to increase the level of our awareness and encourage one another to a more sustainable life.
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