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  • Making Green Jobs Happen - A Governance Forum for Leaders in Ontario

    This great green event is over now!
    Date: Sat January 30 2010   to Sat January 30 2010
    Saturday, 12 noon - 5 pm
    Where: Direct Energy Centre
    100 Princes Boulevard
    Toronto
    Ontario, M6K 3C3 [ Map it!]
    Event Type: Workshops/Conferences/Retreats/Symposiums
    Web Site: www.civicgovernance.ca/ontario

     

    Hosted by the Centre for Civic Governance at the Columbia Institute

    Join municipal, labour and environmental leaders from across Ontario for a Forum on creating strategies for making green jobs happen in the Province.

    KEYNOTE:

    Robert Pollin - Robert Pollin is the founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the
    University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and one of the leading researchers on green jobs in North America.

    FORUM AGENDA

    * 12:00 p.m. Registration and Refreshments
    * 1:00 p.m. Keynote Address: Robert Pollin, Political Economy Research Institute
    * 2:00 p.m. Workshops
    - Municipal Financing for Green Retrofits
    - Green Schools
    - Creating Green Jobs Strategies for Ontario
    * 4:00 p.m. Closing Address: Michael Peck, Gamesa: 'Converting Idle Factories to Successful Green Industries'

    WORKSHOPS

    * Municipal Financing for Green Retrofits
    * Green Schools
    * Creating Green Jobs Strategies for Ontario

    CLOSING ADDRESS:

    Michael Peck, the architect of the Gamesa project that turned abandoned steel mills into working windmill factories in the US, has shown how fresh thinking and new partnerships can create thousands of green jobs. Michael's efforts to build similar partnerships that contribute to developing the wind power industry in Ontario point to exciting opportunities in the future. Michael is also a leader in the national green jobs movement.

    Seats are going fast...register soon. For more information, see website
    linked above or contact 416-531-7265, ontarioforum@columbiainstitute.ca


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    Larry says:
    Jan 26, 2010
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