GET CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN NOW!

RALLY FRIDAY at 5 pm.


Be part of the co-ordinated actions taking place across Canada, the United States and other countries this weekend to declare with one voice, NOT ONE MORE DEATH! STOP THE WARS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN! INVEST IN OUR COMMUNITIES, NOT IN WAR!

WINDSOR Anti-War Rally and Demonstration
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26
5 to 6 pm.
Corner of Goyeau and Wyandotte

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
CANADA OUT OF AFGHANISTAN!
U.S. OUT OF IRAQ!
NO TO AN ATTACK ON IRAN!


Windsor Peace Coalition www.windsorpeace.org

Rally Across the World for December 8, the International Day of Climate Action!

Join millions of people in 70 countries (and counting) who will be on the streets to demand that world leaders take the urgent and resolute action that is needed to prevent the catastrophic destabilization of global climate, so that the entire world can move as rapidly as possible to a stronger emissions reductions treaty which is both equitable and effective in preventing dangerous climate change.

As heads of state meet in Bali, Indonesia for the UN Climate Negotiations to negotiate the our future, on December 8 the youth of Canada can stand in solidarity with millions world wide to demand our leaders take real action.

We also demand that the long-industrialized countries that have emitted most greenhouse gases up to now take most of the responsibility for the adaptive measures that have to be taken, especially by low-emitting countries with limited economic resources.

In Canada, the case is particularly severe: Canada declared our Kyoto targets unachievable and joined Bush's club of polluting nations who think "voluntary targets" will reach our commitments. December 8 is our day to tell our government that the only path to a stable climate runs through Kyoto!

The CYCC is joining ACT for the Earth in organizing actions nationwide, through local, city and rural based coalitions.

Rallies are currently planned for Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Edmonton and Lethbridge, details, including contact information, are here: http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/index.php?cmd=Main.ShowCountry&id=11〈=en&PHPSESSID=af91db948f12ce81b964e22976a0ea84#country11

No rally planned for your location? Plan one! Contact actions@ourclimate.ca, director@ourclimate.ca, or campaigns@actfortheearth.org to get involved!

CHECK BACK OFTEN FOR NEW RALLIES:
www.ourclimate.ca
www.actfortheearth.org/stopclimatechaos

Follow what's going on at the UN: www.cydbali.org
www.globalclimatecampaign.org

--
Barbara Hayes
National Director
Canadian Youth Climate Coalition

Directrice nationale
Coalition canadienne des jeunes pour le climat

office: 613-241-1615
cell: 613-255-5724
skype: barbarajeansophia

A Short History of Economics

Marilyn Waring
Marilyn Waring is a lecturer, writer and development consultant. She is also a farmer and she says herself that it is this calling that has had the most profound influence on the way she understands the economy. Unfortunately, Waring's ideas have never seriously influenced the way our Canadian economic system works. However, Marilyn Waring has been a great inspiration to many people, especially women, who feel that the current economic system excludes much of life.

Waring says that when economy includes only activities which involve monetary transactions, much of women's productive and reproductive work is excluded. Bearing children, mothering, tending a garden, feeding one's family, milking a family cow, raising sheep for wool you use yourself, all of these are excluded as economic activities and do not find their way into any country's System of National Accounts. In other words, through a traditional understanding of the economy, much of the work of half of the population becomes invisible. (See Julie's story.)

According to Waring, mainstream economics has also not found a way of counting the resources on which valued production is based, namely the earth. For example, activities which involve monetary transactions count as production even when they involve the degradation of the earth's resources, such as strip-mining. A sunset has no value, nor a mountain, and trees only count when they have been chopped down and sold. At the same time, Waring criticizes traditional economics for not finding a way to value community well-being. By current thinking, war and disaster are 'good for the economy' because they create jobs such as arms production and clean-up.

Waring's video Who's Counting? is available at public libraries and universities across Canada as are her books, Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth and Three Masquerades: Politics, Work, and Human Rights.


www.unpac.ca/economy/historyecon.html

Windsor, ON | Ten Thousand Villages Canada

www.tenthousandvillages.ca/cgi-bin/category.cgi?item=pageStore5106&template=fullpage-en

Buying bottled water is wrong, says Suzuki

David Suzuki says plastic water bottles generate waste and potential health hazards because of their chemical composition. (CBC). "I think in Canada it's ...

www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/02/01/suzuki-water.html

Redistribution of Wealth

Three Models of Global Community.Debates about global justice tend to assume normative models of global community without justifying them explicitly. These models are divided between those that advocate a borderless world and those that emphasize the self-sufficiency of smaller political communities. In the first case, there are conceptions of a community of trade and a community of law. In the second case, there are ideas of a community of nation-states and of a community of autonomous communities. The nation-state model, however, is not easily justified and is one that has been criticized extensively elsewhere. The model of a community of trade underlies both advocates of market-oriented development and exponents of global schemes of redistribution of resources and incomes. I analyze the work of Charles Beitz, Peter Singer, and Thomas Pogge to show that the assumption that global interdependence is beneficial is poorly justified. The model of a community of law, as seen in the work of Henry Shue and others, is the basis for arguments against state sovereignty and in favor of international human rights regimes. I argue that this model suffers either from a problem of practicability or of hegemony. Finally, the model of a community of autonomous communities uses notions of patriotism and sovereignty to maintain that disengagement and independence are the best routes to global peace and justice.

www.springerlink.com/index/v54141034373hu04.pdf

Buy Nothing Day

Loosely organized event encouraging not shopping at all on the day after Thanksgiving, the "first day of the Christmas shopping season."

www.adbusters.org/bnd/

The Real News

The Real News is a non-profit news and documentary network focused on providing ... "The Real News" is the flagship show of IWT and Real News Network. ...

www.therealnews.com/

TransFair Canada: About Fair Trade

Behind the principles and goals of Fair Trade is a rigorous international system of monitoring, auditing and certification. The international Fair Trade ...

www.transfair.ca/en/fairtrade/

Hydrogen Future

A University of Windsor chemistry professor may be holding the keys to hydrogen-powered vehicles of the future. David Antonelli's breakthrough in hydrogen ...

http://cronus.uwindsor.ca/units/research/works/rtw.nsf/main/7605384EA702EE9885257317006CE99F?OpenDocument

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Welcome to the CCPA. Independent, non-profit research organization, to promote research on economic and social policy issues from a progressive point of view.

www.policyalternatives.ca/

GLIER Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research News

Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research Biology Professor Hugh MacIsaac is part of a group of researchers who are being supported by a $1.123 ...

web4.uwindsor.ca/.../main.nsf/c571b39ad1991eb98525694b005101c3/024e008f76a153998525695f0064d310?OpenDocument

Union of Concerned Scientists

The Union of Concerned Scientists is the leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world. UCS combines independent...

www.ucsusa.org/

GreenLink Border Solution

The GreenLink plan was presented at a special meeting of Council on Tuesday, ... View the Greenlink presentation by following either of the links below. ...

www.greenlinkwindsor.ca/

Rad and Sustainable Fashion

rad and sustainable fashion** for gals for guys for bebes -----using recycled ... aw thanks, hows things going with the clothing? Made in Windsor

www.myspace.com/amyjillsnook

Green Party of Canada

www.sierraclub.ca/.../ how-to-save-the-world.jpg
www.sierraclub.ca/ activist-publication/
How to be an Activist
Elizabeth May, a Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director for 17 years, developed her "How to be an Activist" pamphlet to teach others how to become active campaigners. The original How to be an Activist, first published online in 1996 is a practical guide to campaigning.

Now, 10 years later, Elizabeth May has written a definitive followup to the "How to be an Activist" guide - How to Save the World in Your Spare Time published by Key Porter Books.
Whoever said "you can't fight city hall," never had access to a book like this. An invaluable guide and fascinating glimpse into the life of a tireless campaigner for the planet, How to Save the World In Your Spare Time can show anyone how to fight for a cause.
A veteran environmental organizer and activist, Elizabeth May has put decades of experience and advice into this entertaining read. Sprinkled throughout are stories of her career in activism: from adventures in the Amazon with Sting and Gordon Lightfoot, to surprising stories of Canadian political figures including the late Dalton Camp and Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Read the opening chapter to what reviewers have called "the go-to guide that shows you how to fight for a cause".





Elizabeth May unveils her party's Green vision for Canada ... OTTAWA – Federal Green Party leader Elizabeth May today congratulated Green Party of Ontario ...

www.greenparty.ca/

Impact on Chemicals Regulation

The SPP Regulatory Framework Agreement and Its Impact on Chemicals Regulation
by Bruce Campbell
September 24, 2007 | National Office

Download the Report/Study:

• More Than Jellybeans: The SPP Regulatory Framework Agreement and Its Impact on Chemicals Regulation - PDF File, 133 Kb

Roots & Shoots ...

Jane Goodall Institute of

JGI Canada currently supports a sanctuary for orphaned chimpanzees at Ngamba Island in Uganda and a three-year program to introduce Roots & Shoots ...



www.janegoodall.ca/news-lectures.php

What is Earth Science? University of Windsor

[PDF]What is Earth Science? University of WindsorFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
University of Windsor. http://www.uwindsor.ca/earth. Page 2. What is Earth Science? The objectives of Earth Science are to study and ...
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Vandana Shiva's ZNet

Dr. Vandana Shiva is a physicist, ecologist, activist, editor, and author of many books. In India she has established Navdanya, a movement for biodiversity ...

www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=90

Worldwatch Institute

Analyzes interdisciplinary environmental data from around the world, providing information on how to build a sustainable society.

www.worldwatch.org/

Windsor Clean City Commitee

Welcome to Clean City Windsor

3540 North Service Road East - Windsor, ON N8W 5X2 519-974-1010 ext 231 - Fax: 519-944-3161. City of Windsor Clean City Committee ...

www.cleancitywindsor.ca/

Windsor Environmental Law Society

University of Windsor - Political Science Main - Announcements

The University of Windsor Environmental Law Society is pleased to present The Climate Project’s Walter Palmer on... in the MOOT ...

cronus.uwindsor.ca/units/polsci/political.nsf/main/B2CA84E6E834A46B852571F10066E5F3?OpenDocument

Project Porchlight

Project Porchlight screenshot You may have heard about Project Porchlight in the local media or on a weblog near you just recently. ...

ottawa.overnow.com/project-porchlight/

Windsor Bicycling Committee

The Windsor Bicycling Committee (WBC) is comprised of 10 members, including one City Councillor, who strive to enhance the safety and viability of bicycling ...
www.citywindsor.ca/002440.asp

Petition No. 83

The petitioner alleges that air quality in Windsor has suffered due to a dramatic ... There is a link between diesel pollution, smog, ozone depletion, ...

http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/domino/petitions.nsf/viewe1.1/66BAC7F522CEEF6785256DB2005C9ED2

People and Health and Pollution

www.peopleandplanet.net/doc.php?id=2595

HypheNations: Canadian and Canadian-American Bridges

www.uwo.ca/.../essays/hyphenations.htm

"Toxic Trespass" - NFB Film Screening in Windsor

ENVIRO FILM:
Investigating the Chemical Soup Around Us Hosted by Windsor Cancer Prevention Coalition

In Toxic Trespass, intrepid filmmaker Barri Cohen launches an
investigation into the effects of the chemical soup around us. She
starts with her 10-year-old daughter, whose blood carries carcinogens like benzene and the long-banned DDT. Then, Cohen heads out to Windsor and Sarnia: Canadian toxic hotspots, with startling clusters of deadly diseases.

Here, everyone seems to know children who have suffered respiratory illnesses, leukemia, brain tumours and other illnesses. And on the Native reserve of Aamjiwnaang, ringed by Sarnia's "chemical valley," the film reveals a startling birth rate problem that officials just can't ignore.

Cohen journeys into toxic nightmares all too common in industrialized countries. She meets passionate activists working for positive change, along with doctors and scientists who see evidence of links between environmental pollution and health problems. And she learns how quickly barriers can go up when anyone tries to even ask questions about the connection betweeen toxins and serious health problems.

Perhaps most appalling - and funny, in their own twisted way - are the roadblocks Cohen encounters when she tries to get information from federal officials. One tells her his department is "planning to
discuss the plans."

This moving documentary is empowering and leavened with wry humour. Carried by Cohen's passion for truth and her disarming openness, it is essential viewing for anyone concerned about the effects of pollutants on our - and our children's - very DNA. Toxic Trespass is accompanied by a comprehensive guidebook for educators, activists and concerned citizens, produced by the Women's Healthy Environment Network. 2007, 80 min

Fed-Up Windsor

By converting more urban space to gardens, not only can suburban arehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifas converted back to forest, but cities become greener by changing impervious surfaces to vegetation. Also, localized gardening is primarily driven by human energy, not oil powered machines. Permaculture techniques, such as companion planting, allow greater cooperation between plants; such agricultural practices have proven, over generations of gardeners from all over the world, to produce more abundant, culturally appropriate, disease-resistant, and nutritious crops.

http://users.resist.ca/~fedup/

How Can I Get Involved?

Anyone who wants to help build our region's capacity for local, organic food pro- duction and distribution is encouraged to join our net- work.
Do you have space that you want to contribute?
We will build, maintain, and harvest a garden, dependent on the availability of gardeners.

Do you want to garden?
We will coordinate interested gardeners, and provide them with space, help, and advise as needed.

Do you have a surplus from your own gardens?
Please don't let it go to waste. We will collect and distribute it to those in need.

Do you have fruit trees that go unharvested?
Please tell us. We will harvest them so that all of us can enjoy their bounty.

Event Board

Sunday Potlucks
6pm in the backyard of the Ecohouse (793 Sunset Ave.): anyone can come and share their favourite dish, get to know their fellow gardeners, and participate in discussions about FedUp, gardening practices, and food politics.
Click here for a map to the Ecohouse.

The Global Resource Centre (GRC)

University of Windsor

Social Justice main site

Volunteer

The Global Resource Centre (GRC) and its campus partner, the Ontario Public Interest Research Group (OPIRG) - Windsor, need volunteers to help run our ...


www.uwindsor.ca/units/socialjustice/main.nsf/inToc/C819094789EC9F9D852571D4006796C9

Downtown Windsor Farmers' Market

Web site for the Downtown Windsor Farmers' Market presented by the Downtown Windsor Business Improvement Association. Choose from the finest fresh, ...

www.downtownwindsorfarmersmarket.ca

Essex Region Conservation Authority (ERCA)

The authority governing conservation and environmental issues in Essex County. Lists conservation areas and parks with events, environmental services and ...

www.erca.org/

Walpole Island

Migration, Demographics, War of 1812, Flora, Harsen's Isl;and & Chenal Ecarte, neat old pictures, Genealogical Research.

www-personal.umich.edu/~ksands/Warpole.html

Point Pelee National Park

A lush Carolinian forest oasis at the southern tip of Canada, Point Pelee National Park resounds with migrating song birds in the spring, hums with cicadas ...

www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/index_E.asp

The Friends of Ojibway Prairie Inc.

The Friends of Ojibway Prairie, volunteers, co-operative non-profit, charitable association, Windsor, Ontario.

www.ojibway.ca/foop.htm

Peche Island

Peche Island was acquired by the City of Windsor on November 1, 1999. Formerly this 35 hectare (86.5 acre) island was managed as a provincial park by the ...

Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority

Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Authority "EWSWA", Click here for a detailed Site Map... ewswa.org site map. EWSWA is a municipal agency created by the County of ...

www.ewswa.org/pages/home.html

OPIRG Windsor Action Groups

ACTION GROUPS are essentially collectives - groups of people who voluntarily agree to work together on a common issue towards a common goal while sharing responsibilities and decisions equally. The groups vary from year to year depending on what students are interested in. Groups receive staff support, training and use of OPIRG-Windsor's resources to operate. At least one person from each group attends board meetings to keep them informed. By becoming involved in a group you do not necessarily have to support or endorse all other groups but must treat all members with respect (see basis of unity below).


CURRENTLY ACTIVE Public Interest Groups:

1) The ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP are currently working with the University Environmental Coaltion on establishing an Environmental Policy at the University (improving recycling, composting, energy efficiency, etc.) and on organizing a the International Day of Action on Climate Change.

2) The ANTI-POVERTY GROUP

3) The SOCIAL JUSTICE GROUP is working on establishing a “No Sweat” (fair trade) policy at the University and against Tuition increases

4) The MEDIA GROUP works on issues around corporate control of the media as well as producing OPIRG's NEWSPAPER THE “GLOBAL VOICE” and RADIO SHOW.

5) The WINDSOR’S ANIMAL ACTION GROUP (W.A.A.G.) mission is to prevent cruelty to, and encourage consideration for, all animals, human and non-human. They are working against cruelty to animals in the entertainment business (circuses, etc.) and promoting vegetarianism. Click here for more information.


PAST Public Interest Groups:
The ANTI-RACISM GROUP was formed to address the barriers faced by minorities in society. OPIRG hired three students to develop a more effective anti-racism training and to improve our diversity programme. The Anti-Racism group will also work with community and campus groups as well as various departments at the university to promote cultural sensitivity.
The CONSUMER ADVOCACY GROUP investigating and reporting on corporate rip-offs, safety and environmental impact of products and services you buy.
The ORGANIC FOOD GROUP promoting the use of organic produce and campaigning against genetically modified foods.
The THEATRE ACTION GROUP doing street theatre and theatre of the oppressed and giving performances on various social justice and environmental issues.

opirg.uwindsor.ca/units/opirg/main.nsf/inToc/15F2325686781521852572F7004A1A9E?OpenDocument

Recycling Centre

Essex-Windsor Recycling Centre. Recycling Centre location map. Exit off the E.C. Row Expressway at Central Avenue (North). Turn East at the traffic lights ...

www.ewswa.org/pages/recycle/rc.html

Compost - Garden Gold

Leaves, grass clippings, garden waste, brush, tree trimmings, shrubs and paper (from Essex-Windsor residents). The material is shredded, and composted a 55 ...

www.ewswa.org/pages/recycle/compost.html

Detroit River Canadian Cleanup (DRCC)

Funding for the development of this site generously provided by Environment Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment ... www.detroitriver.ca

Citizens Environment Alliance

In a response to the proposed Clean Water Act, the Citizens Environment Alliance (CEA) has offered additional amendments to the Ontario ...
www.citizensenvironmentalliance.org/

Cancer Prevention Network

The Cancer Prevention Network - South Region has representatives from 19 healthcare organizations within Windsor and Essex County with a mandate to support ...
www.wrcc.on.ca/webpage.cfm?org_id=214

The City of Windsor

Official site of the city, featuring a community calendar, notices including construction, seasonal services and other information for residents and ...
www.citywindsor.ca/

West Windsor Citizens for Transportation Alternatives

What happened to this initiative?... it was a great, progressive idea for our transportation system... let's go Windsor!

West Windsor Citizens for Transportation Alternatives Whole Earth Center. In November 2000, former Governor Christine Whitman ordered an Environmental ...
homepages.wwptoday.com/advocates/millstone/ - 18k -

Windsor - You Are Here

The environment and the economy go hand in hand... let's think green and make a difference.

Sierra Youth Coalition

The SYC is the youth-run branch of the Sierra Club of Canada that serves as an action centre for youth concerned about the environment. syc-cjs.org/ Sierra Youth Coalition / Coalition Jeunesse Sierra

Warm Welcome!

We are so excited to be finally putting our daydreams into action... please stay tuned and find out what inspiring things people in our own community are doing to create a better place for us all to share.