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SPRING ECO-GATHERING
 Ontario Enviro Groups Present Prov./Reg. Enviro Issues

WHO: Various Ontario Enviro Groups
WHAT: Spring Eco-Gathering
WHEN: Fri-Sat May 4-5, 2001
WHERE: Roundtree Theatre, Building H, Georgian College, Barrie Ontario
HOW MUCH: $20-$40 (travel & registration subsidies available). Friday only: $5
CALL: 705 840-2888


 Fri-Sat May 4-5, Barrie. Network with environmental groups from around Ontario. Panel presentations, keynote speakers, workshops, info tables, meals, more.

Friday:

  • Local Issues Panel ( http://www.envirobarrie.com ),
  • keynote (Janice Laking, former Mayor, City of Barrie),
  • display tables, social time.
Saturday:

  • plenary discussion, municipal leaders panel, local action workshops, display tables.
  • Environmental impacts of municipal downloading, with Karen Clarke on provincial legislation ( http://www.cielap.org ),
  • Nicola Crawhill on municipal gov=92t responses ( http://www.amo.on.ca ),
  • Linda Pim on impacts on citizen organizing ( http://www.ontarionature.org ).
  • Workshops for local organizing: to help citizens engage their municipal gov=92t & mobilize for action.
  • Meeting Local Needs in the Electrical Sector ( http://www.dsisp.com/gbpower );
  • Pesticide Action; Waste Management ( http://www.web.ca/cnwm );
  • Changing The Way We Move ( http://www.hwen.org/Information/NEST/environ/conserver/info/ http://www.greenestcity.org );
  • Water ( http://www.sierraclub.ca/eastern http://www.torontoenvironment.org http://www.riversides.org );
  • Youth Activism ( http://www.envirobarrie.com ); Ontario Alternative Budget ( http://www.policyalternatives.ca );
  • Urban Sprawl ( http://www.stormco.org http://www.torontoenvironment.org ).

$20-$40 (travel & registration subsidies available).
Friday only: $5.
Carpooling.
All welcome.

Roundtree Theatre, Building H, Georgian College.
Fri 5:30-9:30pm; Sat 9am-5:30pm.

Info/register: http://www.web.ca/oen (click on OEN Spring Eco-Gathering) 705- 840-2888 oen@web.ca [the Ontario Environment Network (OEN) serves Ontario's environmental non-profit, non-governmental community (over 500 groups)]