Coming up in June, July and August: two intros to drawdown, a drawdown course and two summits
1. Introductions to Drawdown June 11 & 19
Please join Unify Toronto in collaboration with Pachamama Alliance for "An Introduction to Drawdown," led by Jon Love and Satya Robinson of JLS-Global.ca. By donation. Students attend free.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant stream of stories about Climate Change (aka Global Warming) that imply there's little we can do about it, or that it’s not really happening? Are you feeling despair that the proposed solutions are too little and too late? Having pangs of guilt that you aren’t doing more?
Well there is a research-based project underway to actually reverse global warming - to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, as opposed to merely slowing down the rate of emissions. It is not only possible, but feasible and eminently practical. The graphic record above, from the first introduction session on January 31st, gives you an idea of the energy and enthusiasm of the 140 participants, and offers a sense of the possibilities for effective action.
Come and find out what you can do to help reverse global warming!
This very interactive evening program will present an inspiring, uplifting and empowering approach to the issue, based on the latest research from a team of over 200 scientists and researchers from around the world.
Are you feeling overwhelmed by the constant stream of stories about Climate Change (aka Global Warming) that imply there's little we can do about it, or that it’s not really happening? Are you feeling despair that the proposed solutions are too little and too late? Having pangs of guilt that you aren’t doing more?
Well there is a research-based project underway to actually reverse global warming - to pull carbon out of the atmosphere, as opposed to merely slowing down the rate of emissions. It is not only possible, but feasible and eminently practical. The graphic record above, from the first introduction session on January 31st, gives you an idea of the energy and enthusiasm of the 140 participants, and offers a sense of the possibilities for effective action.
Come and find out what you can do to help reverse global warming!
This very interactive evening program will present an inspiring, uplifting and empowering approach to the issue, based on the latest research from a team of over 200 scientists and researchers from around the world.
| Monday June 11, 6:30-9:00 p.m. OCAD University, rm. 230 100 McCaul Street | Tuesday, June 19, 6:30-9:00 p.m. OCAD University, main auditorium 100 McCaul Street |
2. Drawdown course starts June 13
This four-session course is designed to take participants deep inside the work of Drawdown.org, including a much greater familiarity with many of the solutions presented in the book, Drawdown, edited by Paul Hawken. You will have a chance to actually get into action on one or more of your chosen solutions as well as learn how to communicate Drawdown to people in your life.
The course is full of useful tools and tips to empower you to have a real impact, as well as how work more effectively with others.
The course is 4 sessions of 3 hours each, with research assignments between sessions, and an "Action Break” between sessions 3 and 4 to allow you complete a learning project, either on your own or with a team from the course.
Dates and times:
Wednesdays: June 13, 20, 27 & August 1, 6:30-9:30
Promise of the Course
You will:
The course is full of useful tools and tips to empower you to have a real impact, as well as how work more effectively with others.
The course is 4 sessions of 3 hours each, with research assignments between sessions, and an "Action Break” between sessions 3 and 4 to allow you complete a learning project, either on your own or with a team from the course.
Dates and times:
Wednesdays: June 13, 20, 27 & August 1, 6:30-9:30
Promise of the Course
You will:
- Gain a basic understanding of how it is possible to reverse global warming, accelerate and expand the work being done
- Know yourself as someone truly making a difference in reversing global warming with a new attitude of hopefulness,
- Be engaged in one or more solution(s) and/or become an “ambassador” for Drawdown
3. Two sector summits
Join Unify Toronto for the third and fourth of seven Drawdown sector summits. On July 25, learn about Electricity Generation sector solutions, and on August 29, about Buildings and Cities-related solutions to global warming that are already in place and in action in Toronto.
Discover how you can help empower humanity's response to global warming by accelerating what is already working. By donation.
Project Drawdown has identified, researched and modeled the 100 most substantive, existing solutions to address climate change, grouped into seven sectors. Put together, they reveal a path forward that can roll back global warming by 2050.
In each informative and collaborative evening:
Discover how you can help empower humanity's response to global warming by accelerating what is already working. By donation.
Project Drawdown has identified, researched and modeled the 100 most substantive, existing solutions to address climate change, grouped into seven sectors. Put together, they reveal a path forward that can roll back global warming by 2050.
In each informative and collaborative evening:
- Learn more about the solutions in those sector identified and modelled by Project Drawdown
- Hear from experts who are making change with related solutions at the individual, corporate and government level:
- Build a long and local vision for accelerating solutions in those sectors in Toronto to their fullest potential
- Offer what you can give and/or request what you need, to help move forward those solutions in Toronto and reverse our greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
| Energy Sector Summit July 25, 6:30-9:30 Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. St. George N of Bloor, Toronto | Buildings and Cities Sector Summit August 29, 6:30-9:30 Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. St. George N of Bloor, Toronto |
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