Date: Thursday March 4th, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Innis Town Hall, Innis College on the University of Toronto campus
Location: 2 Sussex Avenue (corner of Sussex and St. George)
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://zoocheck.com
Contact: Zoocheck Canada
Cost: Admission - $5

Come out and see a screening of the Oscar nominated, award winning documentary, The Cove, with a talk by Leah Lemieux, author of Rekindling the Waters: The Truth About Swimming with Dolphins.

Tickets are available through Zoocheck Canada at (416) 285-1744, or at the door.

Date: Saturday, March 6, 2010
Time: 9:00 am - 11:30 am
Venue: rare Charitable Research Reserve
Location: 1679 Blair Road
City: Cambridge, ON
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.raresites.org
Contact: Bren Pearce
Email: blpearce@raresites.org
Cost: $15.00 with snowshoes or $10.00 without ($5.00 off for rare Discount Event Card holders)

Our education manager will keep you on your toes – or rather your snowshoes. Matthew has walked, hiked & taught on rare so if this is your 1st time snowshoeing here, you’re in good hands. Need snowshoes?  The 1st 22 people to register can borrow a pair loaned to us from Adventure Guide Waterloo. 
Cost: $15.00 with snowshoes or $10.00 without ($5.00 off for rare Discount Event Card

Date: March 6, 2010
Time: 10-2
Venue: Light House Sustainable Building Centre and the Wood Co-op
Location: 2060 Pine St. / 1554 W. 6th Ave.
City: Vancouver
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com/2010_green_building_challenge_workshop-small_business_retro
Contact: Helen Carruthers
Cost: $25

Light House will present three case studies of small businesses that participated in our 2010 Green Building Challenge: the Wood Co-op, Radha Yoga and Eatery, and the renovation of Light House’s own facilty.  Come learn about the energy, water and waste reductions achieved, challenges encountered, and lessons learned by the owners of each project.

Includes upgrades to: building

Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Diana Downtown Guelph
Location: 141 Wyndham Street North
City: GUELPH
Country: CANADA
Website: http://www.uoguelph.ca/ses/content/outreach
Contact: Jo Scarrow /M.Anand
Email: jscarrow@uoguelph.ca

Are biofuels the wonder solution to our three leading environmental crises? Are these crises at all? Come on out for some discussion around “Food, Fuel and Chemicals: There’s Plenty to Go Around” by Prof. Rob Nicol, University of Guelph. Please join us. This event is free.  Light snacks will be provided. The series is brought to you by the newly formed School of Environmental Sciences

Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Venue: rare Charitable Research Reserve
Location: 1679 Blair Road
City: Cambridge, ON
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.raresites.org
Contact: Bren Pearce
Email: blpearce@raresites.org
Cost: Cost: $8.00 ($3.00 rare Event Discount Card holders)

Ontario has the most southern polar bear population in the world. Dave Pearce, a Conservation Analyst with the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society’s Wildlands League will discuss how “ice bears”, climate change & carbon choices collide dramatically in Ontario’s far north. He’ll discuss polar bears, industry effects, and how the health of polar bear populations is an indicator

Date: March 13, 2010
Time: 10-2
Venue: Light House Sustainable Building Centre and Edgemont Village, North Vancouver
Location: 2060 Pine St. / Edgemont Village
City: Vancouver / North Vancouver
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.sustainablebuildingcentre.com/2010_green_building_challenge_workshop-heating_your_home
Contact: Helen Carruthers
Cost: $25

Light House will present four case studies of homes that participated in our 2010 Green Building Challenge: the Norman Residence, the Hayter Residence, the Babicki-Moore Residence, the Mah Residence, and the Kerchum Residence. Come learn about the energy, water and waste reductions achieved, challenges encountered, and lessons learned by the owners of each project.

Including: passive

Date: March 14 - 17, 2010
Time: 8:00 - 19:00
Venue: Radisson Warwick Hotel
Location: 1701 Locust Street
City: Philadlephia
Country: USA
Website: http://www.widener.solidwaste
Contact: Ronald L. Mersky
Email: solid.waste@widener.edu
Cost: USD 570-1080

Presentation of 160 papers from 35 countries on solid waste technology and management.

Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 7pm
Venue: The Bookshelf
Location: Quebec St.
City: Guelph
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.uoguelph.ca/ses/content/outreach
Contact: Jo Scarrow
Email: jscarrow@uoguelph.ca
Cost: free

“Environment Bound” is a newly created series to celebrate books related to the environment by University of Guelph authors across campus, members of the Guelph community at large, and distinguished authors able to visit our community. Each event will involve readings by authors and/or discussions around the books’ themes at the Bookshelf. This series is brought to you by the School of

Date: March 15, 2010
Time: n/a
Venue: Earth Day Canada Head Office
Location: 111 Peter Street, Suite 503
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.earthday.ca
Contact: Reid Bodley
Cost: no cost

Earth Day Canada and Art 4 Commuters invite professional and non-professional filmmakers to submit 90-second silent videos to the Every Day Heroes Film Competition.

Inspire Canada this Earth Day. Tell the story of your every day environmental hero and their dedication to support of a healthier environment through the power of film.

Deadline for submissions is March 15, 2010.

Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Venue: rare Charitable Research Reserve
Location: 1679 Blair Road
City: Cambridge, ON
Country: Canada
Website: http://www.raresites.org
Contact: Bren Pearce
Email: blpearce@raresites.org
Cost: Cost: $10.00 ($5.00 for rare Event Discount Card holders)

Dr. Ryan Gregory from the Dept. of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph returns for the 2nd in our series of fireside chats on evolution. This seminar will place the evolutionary ideas of Darwin in a historical context by reviewing thoughts about evolutionary change (or lack thereof) extending back several thousand years, & by considering Darwin’s life & influences in detail