Date: August 21, 2010
Time: TBD
Venue: Kempenfelt Bay
City: Barrie, Ontario
Country: Canada
Website: http://my-ripple-of-hope.blogspot.com/
Contact: Michelle DeJardine
Email: runforpolepole@gmail.com
Cost: Min. $100 donation
Join the Barrie Run for Pole Pole! Support the Pole Pole Foundation, a Democratic Republic of Congo based not-for-profit with a focus on ape conservation. Join the 10k run/walk organized by Canadian volunteer Michelle DeJardine on the scenic waterfront in Barrie, Ontario.
Michelle was inspired after hearing Lisa Shannon speak about the Zerofootprint Foundation’s projects supporting Pole Pole at our event in May. Through the Barrie Run for Pole Pole, she is collecting donations to build schools and hire teachers for the children of Kahuzi Biega park rangers who protect their natural habitat.
Join the run and support this very worthy cause! Visit Michelle’s blog at: http://my-ripple-of-hope.blogspot.com/ and donate securely via PayPal.
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2010
Time: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Venue: The Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel
Location: 123 Queen St W
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/conf/10-0114/default.aspx
Contact: Joel Elliott
Email: elliott@conferenceboard.ca
This event will provide the information you need to optimize social media tools and enhance the value of your CSR initiatives. Find out how you can respond to increase the effectiveness of your CSR efforts, benefit from emerging best practices, and capitalize on new opportunities.
Friends of Zerofootprint save on Regsitration for this event! simply register online and quote rebate code
Date: Monday, May 10th, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Venue: Indigo at the Manulife Centre
Location: 55 Bloor Street West
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.zerofootprint.net/communities/congo-initiative/a-thousand-sisters-congo-event
Contact: Janet McCausland
Email: janet.mccausland@zerofootprint.net
Zerofootprint is bringing Lisa Shannon, author of A Thousand Sisters to Toronto as part of her larger US book tour this spring. Lisa chronicled her inspirational story of helping women in the Congo, widely called the worst place on earth to be a woman.
Date: Monday, May 3rd and Friday, May 7th, 2010
Time: May 3rd at 9:30 pm, May 7th at 4:30pm
Venue: May 3rd at The ROM Theatre, May 7th at Innis Town Hall
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/congo_in_four_acts
Part of the hot docs film festival, Congo in 4 Acts is a quartet of powerful short films that examines social issues in an impoverished African nation. Congo in Four Acts is an eye-opening expose that lays bare the reality of everyday life in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Date: March 24-26 2010
Venue: Vancouver Convention Centre - East
City: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.globe2010.com/
Email: info@globe2010.com
GLOBE 2010 is one of the world’s largest and longest-running events dedicated to the business of the environment. Every two years, over 10,000 professionals from 70+ countries come together at GLOBE for three days of thought-leading sessions presented by world-renowned sustainability experts; to survey leading-edge environmental innovations; and to participate in unparalleled global networking opportunities.
Join environmental business leaders, corporate executives, NGOs, and government policymakers from around the world in Vancouver this March 24-26, 2010 to explore the mutually inclusive goals of: corporate sustainability, climate change, carbon management, clean energy, sustainable finance, and greener cities. Special subthemes for GLOBE 2010 include: clean technology, water, a spolight on retail, and Auto FutureTech.
Date: 24 -25 Feb, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM-16:30 PM
Venue: Hotel Borobudur
Location: Jalan Lapangan Banteng Selatan, Gambir, DKI Jakarta, DKI Jakarta 10110,
City: Jakarta
Country: Indonesia
Website: http://www.emissionmarketsindonesia.com
Contact: Amit Nigam
Indonesia presents many opportunities for the preparation, presentation and implementation of CDM projects.
With strong forestry and agriculture sectors, two of the most important areas are reforestation and the conversion of biomass to energy.
The CDM approval process in Indonesia is well documented and a number of consultants are available to assist with preparation of the Project Idea Note and subsequent documentation.
Date: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12
Time: 3 PM
Venue: EARTH SCIENCES AUDITORIUM, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
Location: 33 WILLCOCKS STREET
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.torontoclimatecampaign.org/planetpeoplefirst
Contact: Toronto Climate Campaign
Email: info@torontoclimatecampaign.org
Indoor Rally - The Copenhagen Climate Talks are the world’s last chance to secure an emissions reductions agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol before it expires. There is a growing consensus among scientists that we have as little as ten years to stop and reverse the global growth in greenhouse gas emissions before ‘runaway’ climate change becomes uncontrollable. That means the
Date: November 15-16
Time: All day
Venue: Metro Toronto Convention Centre - South Building
Location: 255 Front Street West, Toronto, ON M5V 2W6
City: Toronto, Ontario
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.cpconference.ca/Page.asp?PageID=1115&BL_WebsiteID=5
Contact: Valerie Kitchell, Anastasia
Email: valerie@ontario-sea.org, anastasia@ontario-sea.org
Cost: $995 for OSEA members; $1195 for non-OSEA members.
The Ontario Sustainable Energy Association (OSEA) will host its first annual Community Power Conference this November 15-16. With David Suzuki as the Honourary Chair, the conference will celebrate the Micro FIT and Feed-in Tariff programs that will be instrumental to the success of Community Power projects in Ontario.
Sponsors for the first annual Community Power Conference include: the
Event Name: 7th Annual CBSR Summit on Corporate Social Responsibility
Starts: November 5, 2009, 8am to 5pm
Schedule: Event Agenda
Organizer: Canadian Business for Social Responsibility
Venue: Fairmont Royal York Hotel
Location: 100 Front Street West, Toronto, Canada
Cost: Costs Of Event
Event website: Event Website
More Info: Meirav Even-Har, Summit Co-ordinator at
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Time: 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Venue: TMX Broadcast Centre Gallery, The Exchange Tower
Location: 130 King Street West
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents/carbon_disclosure_toronto.pdf?zbrandid=400&zidType=CH
Contact: The Conference Board of Canada
Email: lapointe@conferenceboard.ca
Cost: Free
The events will highlight the 2009 Canada 200 CDP report and the CDP Global 500 report, and will recognize the companies ranked as the 2009 Climate Disclosure Leaders.
