Events
"New thinking about the food we eat"
Cathedral Neighbourhood Centre, Regina
2900 13th Avenue
March 14 @ 2pm
$5/ticket - available from Body Fuel Organics and Dad's Organic Market.
Native Prairie Speaker Series hosted by the Prairie Conservation Action Plan
Ecology and Economics of Riparian Areas on the Prairies: What we know and what we don't!
Speaker: Etienne Soulodre, Range Agrologist, Saskatchewan Watershed Authority
Location: Royal Saskatchewan Museum, Regina, SK
Date/Time: Tuesday March 16, 12:00pm-1:00pm
FREE (free parking too)
This presentation will be broadcasted live online as well at: www.ustream.tv/channel/native-prairie-speaker-series
It will be available for view on the PCAP website: www.pcap-sk.org
Movie about the Canadian movement to ban lawn and garden pesticides.
Canadian Cancer Soc-SK site
http://www.cancer.ca/Saskatchewan/How%20you%20can%20help/SK-Take%20actio...
A Chemical Reaction premiere
Plan to attend the Saskatchewan premiere of:
A CHEMICAL REACTION
The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society
is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed
documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most
powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North
America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides.
Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to
cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities
have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s
executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question
and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual
<http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the
best-selling lawn book of 2007.
The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:
*When? * _March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m.
*Where?* _Education Auditorium
University of Regina
*When?* _March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.
*Where?* _Saskatoon City Hospital
Auditorium 701 Queen Street
Admission by donation
A CHEMICAL REACTION
The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides. Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual <http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the best-selling lawn book of 2007.
The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:
*When?* _March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.
*Where?* _Saskatoon City Hospital
Auditorium 701 Queen Street
about the Canadian movement to ban lawn and garden pesticides.
Canadian Cancer Soc-SK site
http://www.cancer.ca/Saskatchewan/How%20you%20can%20help/SK-Take%20actio...
A Chemical Reaction premiere
Plan to attend the Saskatchewan premiere of:
A CHEMICAL REACTION
The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society
is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed
documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most
powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North
America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides.
Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to
cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities
have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s
executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question
and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual
<http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the
best-selling lawn book of 2007.
The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:
*When? * _March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m.
*Where?* _Education Auditorium
University of Regina
*When?* _March 16, 2010 at 7 p.m.
*Where?* _Saskatoon City Hospital
Auditorium 701 Queen Street
Admission by donation
A CHEMICAL REACTION
The Canadian Cancer Society and the Saskatchewan Environmental Society is hosting the screening of /A Chemical Reaction/, an acclaimed documentary by Brett Plymale that tells the story of one of the most powerful and effective community initiatives in the history of North America – the Canadian movement to ban law and garden pesticides. Concerned about the growing body of evidence linking pesticides to cancer, Quebec, Ontario, PEI and more than 200 Canadian municipalities have banned the sale and/or use of ornamental pesticides. The film’s executive producer Paul Tukey will be at the screening for a question and answer session. His book /The Organic Lawn Care Manual <http://www.amazon.com/Organic-Lawn-Care-Manual/dp/1580176496>/ was the best-selling lawn book of 2007.
The film will be shown in Regina and Saskatoon:
*When? * _March 17, 2010 at 7 p.m.
*Where?* _Education Auditorium
University of Regina
WWD 2010: Communicating water quality challenges and opportunities
Every year, 1,500 cubic kilometres of wastewater are produced globally. While waste and wastewater can be reused productively for energy and irrigation, it usually is not. In developing countries 80 percent of all waste is being discharged untreated, because of lack of regulations and resources. And population and industrial growth add new sources of pollution and increased demand for clean water tot the equation. Human and environmental health, drinking and agricultural water supplies for the present and future are at stake, still water pollution rarely warrants mention as a pressing issue.
To do something about that UN-Water has chosen Communicating Water Quality Challenges and Opportunities as theme for World Water Day 2010. The overall goal of the World Water Day on 22 March 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at the political level so that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity.
UNEP has responsibility for taking the lead in 2010, UN-Water announced at a session during the Stockholm World Water Week in August 2009 Keep an eye on their site (http://www.unwater.org/).
Please see the attached poster for this event at the University of Regina.
The 2nd Annual Forward Together Lecture
Featuring renowned environmental journalist Richard Manning
“In Wildness Is the Resurrection of Our World"
Tuesday 30 March
7:30 pm, Education Auditorium, University of Regina
"Six thousand years of agriculture have created ecological crisis throughout the world, but nowhere is the story more dramatic than in the North American grassland. But here also, nature has given us clear instructions as to how we must redesign agriculture and economy to resurrect the creative power of the plains. These instructions point the way not only to ecological restoration, but also to revived economy and human well-being."
Richard Manning has worked as a consultant on agriculture, poverty and the environment to the McKnight Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and he has spent over thirty years as a journalist in Montana and Idaho. Manning has written numerous award-winning essays, magazine articles and books, and in 1995 he was the recipient of a John S Knight Fellowship from Stanford University. His recent books include Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization (2004) and Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape (2009). Manning teaches at the University of Montana and resides near Missoula.
All are welcome; free parking is available in lots 4, 14 and 17 (designated "M" areas only); and a book sale and signing will follow the lecture. The lecture is presented by the presidents of Luther College, Campion College, First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina. For further information contact Jennifer Arends at 306.585.5144 or communications@luthercollege.edu.
“Love your Joints” -A Joints in Motion Fundraiser
By supporting Debra Nyczai, you are helping Millions who suffer from arthritis.
Ticket Cost $50.00- $35 Tax receipt available upon request.(for ticket information and contact information listed at the bottom).
This is not steak night, it’s a 3 Course Meal!!
You will be entertained by Blues singer Ray Eberle (bio is below), while enjoying a 3 Course Meal (vegetarian/gluten free option available). There will be a Silent Auction, more details on the items to come.
You can visit Debra's page at http://arthritis.akaraisin.com/p/debranyczai.aspx
Ray Eberle Bio:
Regina journeyman Blues singer Ray Eberle has been a perennial fixture in the Saskatchewan music scene for decades. While he is currently busy fronting two incredibly talented Regina-based Blues bands, Little Chicago and The Mills Street Blues Band, Eberle has also established considerable repute for his intimate and expressive solo performances. Providing the perfect fusion of poignant guitar play, soul-stirring vocals, and charismatic stage presence, Eberle is a pure pleasure to watch and certain to be a treat for any audience.
For more information on purchasing tickets (we are able to reserve tickets to be picked up at the door) or if you want to donate to the Silent Auction please contact:
Jasinta Fisher
501-2109
Canadian explorer and environmental filmmaker Mark Terry will present
his award-winning documentary The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning
on April 7, 2010, at the Education Auditorium, Room 106, at the
University of Regina. The film, which is appropriate for a family
audience, begins at 7:00 p.m.
The film reports on diminishing populations of penguins and marine
life, grass growing in the world’s largest desert, startling new data
on the ozone hole and the imminent rise in the world’s sea level due
to the accelerated melting of Antarctica’s land ice. Terry is touring
with the film to continue his mission of educating people about these
new environmental discoveries. He will be available to answer questions
following the film.
“The land ice is melting at a much faster rate than any of us had
previously realized,” said Terry. “A larger volume of fresh water is
now being added to the world’s seas posing a threat to coastal
communities.”
The film was the only one officially invited by the United Nations to
screen to delegates and world leaders attending COP15, the Climate
Change Conference in Copenhagen last December. With more than 25
screenings during the two-week conference, the film made an impact on
the delegates with its message of Antarctica’s rapidly-changing
environment.
This event is sponsored by the Office of Energy and Environment and the
Canadian Plains Research Centre at the University of Regina, and
LaBodega.
Hello RCE Members.
We have reserved a room at McNally’s Tavern at 2226 Dewdney Avenue, Regina the evening of April 8th for an informal RCE gathering. The event, which is scheduled to begin at 4:30 pm, will provide a relaxed atmosphere to discuss sustainability and other topics. Please note this will become a monthly event.
Purpose:
a) To provide an opportunity for RCE Saskatchewan “partners and supporters” to network in a relaxing and informal atmosphere!
b) To provide an opportunity to share and learn from each other about sustainable initiatives and opportunities.
c) To help build a sustaining, enhancing, and advancing capacity for RCE Saskatchewan through monthly gatherings on the first Thursday of each month.
If you require additional information you may contact me (macyshond@siast.sk.ca) or Lyle Benko (lyle.benko@sasktel.net).
Doug Macyshon
SIAST
“Love your Joints”
A Joints in Motion Fundraiser
By supporting Debra Nyczai,
you are helping Millions
who suffer from arthritis
Thursday April 8, 2010
Bocados
2037 Park St. Regina SK
6:30 PM
3 Course Meal
*Vegetarian Option Available
Entertainment:
Blues Singer Ray Eberle
Silent Auction
http://arthritis.akaraisin.com/p/debranyczai.aspx
Ticket Cost $50.00
For More Info Contact
Jasinta Fisher
501-2109 email jasinta@gmail.com
$35 Tax receipt available upon request.
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