Climate Cafe: Nov 10 @4pm, Smorgasbord Deli

Join us for a special Climate Cafe: a candlelight vigil to reflect and share our love for our planet, our concern for ourselves and our fellow human beings at risk from climate change, and our hopes for truly transformative action to happen at COP and through each other. Continue reading Climate Cafe: Nov 10 @4pm, Smorgasbord Deli

THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL SPEAKERS

Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:00 pm TRU Alumni Theatre, Clocktower Avrim Lazar is President & CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada as well as Chair of the Advisory Committee on Paper and Wood Products. He has also worked as national policy advisor  in areas as diverse as climate change, biodiversity, child poverty, and employemnt insurance.   He was the Chair of the Committee of teh Whole of the Second UN Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biolgoical Diversity in 1995. Continue reading THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL SPEAKERS

THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL SPEAKERS

.     Room 127, BC Centre For Open Learning Dr. Peter Victor is an economist who has worked on environmental issues for over 40 years  and was one of the founders of the emerging discipline of ecological economics.  He was the first President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics.  His most recent book is Managing without Growth: Slower By Design, not Disaster. Continue reading THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENTAL SPEAKERS

Thompson Rivers University: Environmental Speaker Series

If you would like to receive more information about these upcoming presentations, please email Patricia Gray at pgray@tru.ca Thursday, March 3, 2011           Jim Hoggan, Chair of the David Suzuki    7:00pm  TRU Alumni Theatre, Clocktower  Jim Hoggan is one of Canada’s most respected public-relations professionals and the president and owner of the Vancouver PR firm Hoggan & Associates.A law school graduate with a longstanding passion for social justice, Jim also serves as chair of the David Suzuki Foundation—the nation’s most influential environmental organization—and as a Trustee of the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education. He is the cofounder of Stonehouse Standing … Continue reading Thompson Rivers University: Environmental Speaker Series