Want to take an unflinching look at the challenges of climate science as explained by climate scientists? Find out about the boldest initiatives to meet our targets? Hear about new directions in global negotiations? Explore some ethically challenging solutions with potentially extreme side effects?

Climate Change Conference 2010 is three full days of climate challenges, solutions and questions, with no spin and no sugar-coating.

Friday – Sunday, 2010 August 13 – 15
Hart House, University of Toronto
Full program and online registration: ccc-2010.ca

Our Friday night reception outlining The Challenges features Bill McKibben, Andrew Weaver and Elizabeth May.

Our Friday afternoon forum, Across Borders and Generations, is youth-oriented and free to all.

Saturday evening’s panel on Working Together is devoted to bridging divides between various groups working on the issue.

And throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday, we’ll have scientists and experts speaking on the detailed challenges, impacts, and solutions.

What happens when you mix hundreds of green products and services with live music and local foods – and invite everyone in Toronto?

The Live Green Toronto Festival!
Toronto’s annual celebration of all things green turns Yonge Street into ‘green street’ with more than 100 exhibitors of green products and services, local food, live music, and more.

Please join us on August 28 & 29, 2010 at Yonge-Dundas Square.

Event Hours:
Saturday August 28th 11 am – 9 pm
Sunday August 29th 11 am – 5 pm

You’ll find everything from bees, worms and bikes, to green fashions, renewable energy, local foods and more.

And good green fun for the whole family!

Stay tuned for more details of the 2010 Festival.

NOVEMBER 4th, 2010
8:30am – 4:30pm
Metro Toronto Convention Centre

SAVE THE DATE

for Going Greener, a forum on building a more sustainable future

Sponsored by the
Council of Ontario Universities for
the province’s public sector

Hear from experts in government, business, hospitals, colleges and universities

Participate in discussions about research and innovation, human capital and skills, best practices in operations, and community collaborations that contribute to
Ontario’s green economy

Call for Papers

Praxis of Resistance: Communities of Inclusion and Exclusion

The Fourth Annual Conference of the Toronto Group for the Study of
International, Transnational, and Comparative Law

January 2011

The Toronto Group

The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law is pleased to announce its fourth annual graduate student conference. The principal aim of the Toronto Group’s annual conference is to facilitate collaborative discussion among graduate students and junior faculty members engaged in critical and transformative inquiries into law and legal scholarship in international contexts.

Past conferences have focused on testing the boundaries between international, transnational and comparative law, on exploring the relationship between law and international political and economic structures, and on developing critical historicized reflections on international law and legal scholarship.

2011 Keynote Speakers: Nathaniel Berman & Balakrishnan Rajagopal
Conference Dates: January 28-29, 2011

2011 Conference Theme:

This year’s conference will take the concept of global “social movements” as its starting point.

The following appeared in the Wednesday, August 04, 2010 edition of Y-File:
Ever wonder what species of exotic trees and flowers are hidden in the wooded ravine and riverbank of York’s Glendon campus? This Sunday, rain or shine, get an up-close-and-personal look at some of the hidden gems when members of the Toronto Field Naturalists (TFN) lead a free walking tour of the campus.

Stick around long enough and you could also have tea with Lorna Marsden, York president emerita, in her Glendon office – one of the historic principal rooms in the Glendon Hall manor.

The tour will begin at the TTC bus stop at the southeast corner of Bayview and Lawrence avenues at 2pm on Sunday, Aug. 8. It is expected to last two hours.

Right: The ravine on the Glendon campus

York alumnus and historian John Court (BA ’63) and Nancy Dengler, a Toronto botanist, University of Toronto professor emerita and member of the TFN’s board of directors, will take participants on a tour through Glendon’s natural and human history.