Business, society and the journey to sustainability

Posted on April 6 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Green Business + Investment

Date: April 6, 2010
Time: 11:45AM-1PM
Venue: W. R. Castell Library, 3rd floor
Location: 616 Macleod Trail SE
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.reapcalgary.com/earthweek
Contact: Stephanie Jackman
Email: stephanie@reapcalgary.com
Cost: free

Join Rob Abbott, author of “Conscious Endeavours”, for a discussion about the best practices of sustainable businesses.

Presented in partnership with the Calgary Public Library and First Calgary Savings, the Sustainable Business Lecture Series offers free lunch-time presentations on sustainable business practices each weekday to help your business reduce its eco footprint.

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Event ZEROfeature - April

Posted on April 6 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Featured Posts

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A Thousand Sisters, Event for Women and the Environment in the Congo
Date: Monday, May 10th, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Location: Indigo at the Manulife Centre, Toronto, Canada
Address: 55 Bloor Street West

Website: Click here!

More Information: Zerofootprint is bringing Lisa Shannon, author of A Thousand Sisters to Toronto as part of her larger US book tour this spring. Lisa chronicled her

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Lessons learned in greening manufacturing

Posted on April 7 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Green Business + Investment

Date: April 7, 2010
Time: 11:45AM-1PM
Venue: W. R. Castell Library, 3rd floor
Location: 616 Macleod Trail SE
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.reapcalgary.com/earthweek
Contact: Stephanie Jackman
Email: stephanie@reapcalgary.com
Cost: free

Join Bruce Chorlton, Senior VP of the Insulspan and Riverbend divisions of PFB Corporation, as he discusses the lessons PFB has learned in greening its suite of products, their operations and manufacturing, and the reporting and communications.

Presented in partnership with Calgary Public Library and First Calgary Savings, the Sustainable Business Lecture Series offers free lunch-time

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Date: April 8, 2010
Time: 11:45AM-1PM
Venue: W. R. Castell Library, 3rd floor
Location: 616 Macleod Trail SE
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.reapcalgary.com/earthweek
Contact: Stephanie Jackman
Email: stephanie@reapcalgary.com
Cost: free

Join Bruce Martin, General Manager of Community Natural Foods, as he shares the importance of sustainability in business strategy from their perspective.

Presented in partnership with Calgary Public Library and First Calgary Savings, the Sustainable Business Lecture Series offers free lunch-time presentations on sustainable business practices each weekday to help your business reduce

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Environmental Printing Awards

Posted on April 8 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Lifestyle + Culture, Events

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Date: April 8, 2010
Time: 5:30
Venue: Eglinton Grand
Location: 400 Eglinton Avenue West
City: Toronto
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.printaction.com/epa
Contact: Clive Chan
Email: clive@printaction.com
Cost: $125

Now in its fifth year, the Environmental Printing Awards is a program set up to recognize the best of Canadian environmental printing. Presented by PrintAction, the nation’s premier graphic communications magazine, the awards series has previously been hosted by Dr. David Suzuki, the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney, Stephen Lewis and Tzeporah Berman.

This year’s event will feature

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Date: April 9, 2010
Time: 11:45AM-1PM
Venue: W. R. Castell Library, 3rd floor
Location: 616 Macleod Trail SE
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.reapcalgary.com/earthweek
Contact: Stephanie Jackman
Email: stephanie@reapcalgary.com
Cost: free

Join Bart Robinson, Associate for The Natural Step Canada, as he discusses the process for creating an organizational strategy for sustainability.

Presented in partnership with Calgary Public Library and First Calgary Savings, the Sustainable Business Lecture Series offers free lunch-time presentations on sustainable business practices each weekday to help your business reduce its eco

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Healthy Families, Healthy Planet

Posted on April 10 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Lifestyle + Culture, Health + Pollution

Date: April 10, 2010
Time: 12-3PM
Venue: W. R. Castell Library, John Dutton Theatre
Location: 616 Macleod Trail SE
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.reapcalgary.com/earthweek
Contact: Stephanie Jackman
Email: stephanie@reapcalgary.com
Cost: free

Join us for the launch of Calgary’s first “Healthy Families, Healthy Planet” report, presented by five experts through an interactive panel discussion.  Learn about the top 10 ways to ensure the wellness of your children and the environment and get answers to all of your questions about detoxifying your home. Exhibits will provide information, products and services to make going green

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Toronto Water Works

Posted on April 10 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Urban Issues + Population, Education + Training

Date: Saturday, April 10, 2010
Time: 2 to 4 pm
Venue: Lillian Smith Library
Location: 239 College Street
City: Toronto, ON
Country: CANADA
Contact: Stanley Teo
Email:
steo@ciclsp.ca
Cost: FREE

An Earth Day awareness program.

Join us for a fun-filled afternoon and learn more about:
* Why Toronto’s tap water is safe to drink
* Where our water comes from
* How it is treated and delivered to our homes
* Why do we need to conserve water
* Tips on how to conserve and protect our water
* City of Toronto Water Efficiency programs and MORE !
FRESH, CLEAN WATER & LIGHT NIBBLES

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Food for Thought

Posted on April 11 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Food + Agriculture

Date: April 11, 2010
Time: 6-9PM
Venue: The Uptown Stage & Screen
Location: 612 8 Avenue SW
City: Calgary
Country: Canada
Website:
http://www.reapcalgary.com/earthweek
Contact: Stephanie Jackman
Email: stephanie@reapcalgary.com
Cost: $15 admission (tickets online at reapcalgary.com/earthweek and Community Natural Foods locations)

Engage your taste buds, mind and fellow food lovers with an evening dedicated to meeting your local farmers and the chefs that are diligently working to bring the fruits of their labor to your table. You will enjoy the best organic and sustainable foods Alberta has to offer prepared by the finest local chefs. Then sit back to watch Food Fight, a documentary that explores how American

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Weekend Journey to Health in Prince Edward County

Posted on April 16 2010 by zerofootprint and filed in Health + Pollution

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Date: April 16 - 18, 2010
Time: 4:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Erika's Raw Retreat
Location: 184 Morrison Point Road, K0K 2P0
City: Milford, ON
Country: Canada
Website:
http://PowerOfRaw.com
Contact: Erika Wolff
Email: erika@powerofraw.com
Cost: 345

Relaxed living foods education, hands-on experience, emotional aspects focus, preparing for juice fasting & tools to make this a regular practice.

Juice fasting with wheatgrass, freshly prepared green juices & herbal teas.
Presents Awakening the Dreamer - Changing the Dream Symposium.
Dinner feast of green energy soup
Expert David Riley provides intro to permaculture, talk on

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