Sick of Climate Change
April 29, 2014
Register below to attend a thought-provoking discussion on how climate change impacts our health in Ottawa. (with audience Q&A and round-table discussions)
Panellists:
- Councillor Diane Holmes, Chair, Ottawa Board of Health
- John Stone, Adjunct Professor, Carleton University and Lead Author for the IPCC Working Group II Report
- Dr. Curtis Lavoie, Emergency Physician, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario
- Alice Hutton, former Community Health Planner, Centretown Community Health Centre
Via Video:
- Sir Michael Marmot, Chair, World Health Organization Commission on the Social Determinants of Health
- Dr. Rosamund Lewis, Associate Medical Officer of Health, City of Ottawa
- Frank Welsh, Director of Policy, Canadian Public Health Association
- Prof. Matthew Paterson, University of Ottawa School of Political Studies, and lead author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Goodbye King Coal
On April 8th, the Thunder Bay Generating Station burned its last lump of coal marking the end of an era in Ontario. Ontario is now the first jurisdiction in North America to fully eliminate coal as a source of electricity generation. By shutting down all of its coal plants, the province has successfully eliminated its single biggest source of smog, toxins, acid rain and greenhouse gases, and Ontario's coal phase out is probably the single biggest act of fighting climate change in Canadian history.
This kind of thing doesn't happen very often so Ecology Ottawa is throwing a Goodbye King Coal celebration and you are invited (we aren't claiming credit, we just want to surround ourselves with people who care and celebrate this important achievement)! So please join us on the evening of May 8th to celebrate the one month anniversary of the end of King Coal in the Province of Ontario! Space is limited, so please RSVP