YIMBY Backyard Garden Sharing Program Orientation Session

Mon Feb 28, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Would you like to grow your own food, but don’t have space to garden? Do you have a backyard that you would like to put to use?

The Stop Food Community Centre and Green Barn presents Yes In My Back Yard, a program that links people with growing knowledge but lack of space with those who have available backyards for growing food but lack the skills or time to garden.  

Contact Liz Curran at The Stop Community Food Centre: 416-651-7867 ext. 27 or liz@thestop.org
http://thestop.org/yes-in-my-back-yard 

Laughing Baby

Green Party of Ontario Open House Today

Come join us at our Open House celebrating our new GPO office at 14 Isabella Street. 

Celebrate with our growing community of green entrepreneurs and social innovators.

If you would like to check out our new GPO office, meet other Greens, and kick off the weekend with some refreshments, this event is for you!

GPO Office
14 Isabella Street
Toronto, ON
4-8 PM

We hope to see you there!


Call Jaymini Bhikha at 416-977-7476 or you can email thineshthillai@gpo.ca for more details.

Send Environment Minister Peter Kent a Love Note!

Click here to send Peter Kent a love note.

Mubarak resigns. Liberation Square Erupts.

From: CBC.CA

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned on the 18th day of anti-government protests, and handed over power to the military.
The historic announcement was made live on state TV by Vice-President Omar Suleiman at about 6 p.m. local time Friday.

Read more

Video from Voice of America

Atheists Raise $3 Million in Microfinance Loans To Alleviate Poverty

In just over two years the community of Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists and the Non-Religious (AASFSHNR) at Kiva.org have raised $3 million (USD) in interest-free loans to help end poverty. Kiva.org is a US non-profit organization that connects lenders with borrowers, from around the globe, who need a micro-finance loan. Peter Kroll, the AASFSHNR community team leader and foundered, commented "This is still the beginning for us. We have organized 14,000 Enlightened individuals from a diaspora of 100's of millions. Our community is thought based and we believe fair peer-to-peer lending can provide the economic opportunity to poor entrepreneurs who have been closed off from the mainstream banking system."

Most of the world's poor live without access to banking. Without collateral they cannot arrange for a loan or open a savings account. Kiva.org has made it possible for the an ordinary person to proactively contribute to making a positive change to this situation.

Kiva's co-founder Matt Flannery has put out his call that "now is a time for the world's privileged to demonstrate to the world's poor just how compassionate and resilient we are." The AASFSHNR community has responded, as well as many other communities and individuals. More than five years after Kiva's founding almost $175 million has been lent worldwide.

Micro-finance is the brain-child of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mohammad Yunus. Yunus realized decades ago, on a visit to a poor village in his country of Bangladesh, that the local people were caught in an endless cycle of debt caused by loan-sharks. He realized what a difference it would make by "removing the barriers faced by the poor so that they can unleash their creativity and intelligence in the service of humanity."

Web: http://atheist-monkey.blogspot.com
Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/lender/AtheistMonkey

Paris Metro Canvas Print

For Sale on ebay or contact me directly.

Coated canvas photographic print. 'Paris Metro' taken in 2008 by Mark Daye in Paris, France. Limited to 100 prints.

Coated canvas is the same canvas as used by painters but has been manufactured with a gesso layer and then coated to accept the incredibly small droplets of ink so that ink will not expand as it is absorbed into the canvas. This allows for sharp vivid images.

The gesso and coating have been specially formulated to be flexible and allow for stretching without cracking or damage to the printed image.

Find printer supplies & ink cartridges with CentrSource.ca

The Equality Effect: 160 Girls Photo Show & Sale Opening Night at Java Jive

Please stop by Java Jive on the corners of Church and Isabella St. in Toronto anytime during the month of February to view or purchase a photo. 100% of all sales are to support The Equality Effect. Photos were submitted by Mark Daye, Ellen Michelson and Bill Michelson.

Snow In Toronto

Stop The Meter On Your Internet Use

Kent A Conservative Flip-Flopper

Creepy Kent picture

Is this guy for real? He's wasted no time in taking on the Conservative Party's standard tack of saying one thing and doing another.

From the Globe & Mail. Published Friday, Jan. 28, 2011 7:29PM EST

In his first major speech as Environment Minister, Peter Kent says Ottawa and the provinces will have to adopt far tougher regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across all sectors of the economy if Canada is going to meet its 2020 target.

  

From the Globe & Mail. Posted on Friday, January 28, 2011 1:04PM EST  

In a noon-hour speech Friday in Toronto to the Economic Club of Canada, Mr. Kent bragged about the Conservatives’ record on the environment and explained that future steps would be taken when they were in the best interests of Canada. But he suggested that new environmental laws to deal with issues like climate change are not imminent.