The fgl Open Global Business Society is holding its third National Civic Forum and CEO Summit on CSR on October 12, 2011.

Location:  University of Toronto, East Common Room, Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle
Registration:  http://www.fglsociety.com/

Ed Waitzer, Director of the  Hennick Centre for Business and Law
Pierre Gratton, CEO and President of the Mining Association of Canada
Roque E. Benavides, CEO of the mining company Buenaventuras in Peru
Diego de la Torre de la Piedra, Chairman of the United Nations Global Compact in Peru.

fgl has graciously offered to provide the NGO rate ($40 +HST) for CBERN participants who are interested in attending.

For more information, and to register, visit the fgl website:

http://www.fglsociety.com/.

Registration documents are located on the website’s sidebar. You are encouraged to register in advance as space is limited.

Best Regards,

Hilary Martin

Research and Outreach Coordinator

Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN)
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York University
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Professors Andrew Secord, left , and Joan MacFarland, both of the economics department at St. Thomas University, along with Tom Mann of the New Brunswick Union of Public and Private Employees, second from right, and David Coon of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, are among the participants in Work in a Warming World, an international forum to be held this week at St. Thomas University.

Labourers, environmentalists and academics will gather at St. Thomas University later this week in the hopes of demonstrating that being a good steward of the environment doesn’t have to mean bringing the economy to a crashing halt.

Joan MacFarland, a professor of economics and gender studies at STU who is a co-organizer of the conference, has heard the criticism that environmental protection is a job killer.

“We’re hoping that there can be another way,” MacFarland said.

The following appeared in the Tuesday, September 27, 2011 edition of Y-File.

What strikes York biology Professor Dawn Bazely, ensconced for the next six months at Harvard University’s Harvard Forest, a National Science Foundation long-term ecological research site, is the absolute isolation combined with the knowledge that she’s only 15 minutes away from a Wal-Mart.

Bazely is at Harvard Forest, part of the US Long Term Ecological Research Network, on a prestigious Charles Bullard Fellowship in Forest Research, one of only six awarded the fellowship out of dozens who applied. The Fellowship is given to people in mid-career who show promise of making a major contribution to forests and forest-related subjects.

“Everything I need is quite nearby, but it seems so isolated because I am surrounded by forest,” says Bazely, who is living in a house on the Harvard estate that was built before 1820. “I keep explaining to people here, that when you drive eight hours to Ontario, the landscape is completely different.

The following appeared in the Thursday, September 22, 2011 edition of Y-File:

How does climate change affect those living in a Nunavut community? Talk directly with members of the northern hamlet of Arviat on the western shore of Hudson Bay as part of the Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit Film Festival next Tuesday.

Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change, by Zacharias Kunuk and Ian Mauro, will screen simultaneously at York and in Arviat, Nunavut, on Sept. 27, from 7pm to 9:30pm, in Curtis Lecture Hall F, Keele campus. Three shorts – Introduction to Nanisiniq, Martha’s Gang and Experiencing Climate Change – Inuit Elders and Youth – by Jordan Konek will also be shown, followed by a live by video Q&A with youth and elders from the Arviat community and filmmaker Mauro.

It is a pay-what-you-can event presented by York’s Institute for Research & Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) and the Nanisiniq Arviat History Project.