Cook-in & Zine launch

SFS will be hosting a 'cook-in'! Come learn to make delicious soup, a snack, and maple apple crips! Most ingredients will be sourced locally. The purpose of the workshop is to teach people how to cook, and how they can cook with local ingredients!

You can register by e-mail stusustainability@gmail.com or come sign up at our table. We'll be in James Dunn Hall Thursday the 21st, Monday the 25th and Wednesday the 27th from 10-2.

Fee is by donation!

We need a minimum of 10 people to register and only have space for 20 people.

At the cook-in we'll also be launching our "Food, food, FOOD!" zine about how to eat locally, and healthily.

Also, our Lug-A-Mug is coming up!

And here's some other cool events....
More stuff.....

INTERNATIONAL RIVER EXPERT TO SPEAK IN FREDERICTON - FRI, OCT 22
Friday, Oct. 22 - Science Lecture, /Using stable isotopes to understand river foodwebs/, UNB Fredericton campus, 3 p.m., Room 146 Bailey Hall.
Dr. Bunn’s most recent report can be viewed at http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v467/n7315/full/nature09440.html.
Advance interviews can be arranged with Dr. Bunn, as well as with the director of the Canadian Rivers Institute, Dr. Allen Curry.
Contact: Heather Boyd-Kinnie, 506-453-4770, hkinnie@unb.ca

Food Zine

We're currently working on a zine that will educate people about eating healthy and eating locally. We're planning on putting in recipes, tips on how to eat locally, information on why you should, and resources. We're hoping to launch the zine along with a cooking workshop with yummy local food recipes. This is pretty similar to something a group is doing at King's College in Halifax.

Workshop will be October 29th from 3pm to 6pm with more details TBA. Keep track of what's going on by subscribing to our mailing list stusustainability@gmail.com or going to our facebook group

Support the Climate Change Accountability Act!

Wednesday from about 10-2 we will be tabling in JDH to give out information about the Climate Change Accountability Act and asking people to send letters and e-mails to the Senate to make sure this passes!

At this moment, the campaign would be to encourage students, staff, and community members to write and or call Senators (no stamps required, and a toll free number) and encourage them to pass Bill C 311, the Climate Change Accountability Act.  Bill C-311 has passed its second reading in the Canadian Senate and is now “in Committee.”  (Following which, it will go into 3rd reading, and then face a vote.)  The House of Commons passed the bill on May 5th.  Bill C-311 legislates reductions in Canadian greenhouse gas emissions to a level that is 80% below 1990 emissions by 2050.  This includes setting interim targets for 2015-2045 (such as the specific target of 25% below 1990 levels in 2020).  Wikipedia has a great little article on “The Climate Change Accountability Act” which fills in a few more details, including its history. 

You can find the text of the Bill, and check on its status in the Senate, by visiting:
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/lop/legisinfo/index.asp?Language=E&Session=23&query=6747&List=toc

Send an e-mail to Senators and fact sheets:
http://www.trunity.net/climateresponse/topics/view/53728/

Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_Change_Accountability_Act_(Bill_C-311)

The Climate Change Accountability Act was originally tabled in October 2006 in the Canadian House of Commons as Bill C-377 by Jack Layton, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada. It passed 3rd reading in that House with the support of caucuses of the Liberal Party of Canada, the Bloc Quebecois and the NDP (the Conservative Party of Canada, led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, voted against it). However, due to the 2008 Canadian federal election ending the parliamentary session prematurely, the bill did not achieve royal assent despite reaching the Senate. C-377 therefore died when the election was called. // On February 10, 2009 Bruce Hyer, New Democrat Deputy Environment Critic and MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North, seconded by Layton, reintroduced it as a Private Member's Bill, renamed as Bill C-311. An April 1, 2009 Second Reading vote resulted in passage of C-311 to Committee Stage by a vote of 141 to 128. After months of delays,

Sample letters for Bill C3-11

Letter to the editor
Climate Change Calls for Active Citizens

Dear Editor,

In response to Harold Phalen’s letter “Debate Climate, but take action” (August 4), please consider:
This paper reported (July 29) on a Dalhousie study recording a decline of 40% in the population of phytoplankton in the oceans, due to warming and trawl fishing. As they produce half of the oxygen we breathe, and form the basis of the ocean’s food chain, phytoplankton are estimated to be as important to our survival as all land plants on Earth.

Clearly, we cannot rely on millionaires of goodwill to

An evening with Students for Sustainability

So our first meeting went well with some new faces appearing. We'll be having our second meeting of the year tonight at 5:30pm in JDH. We're still working out the best time for the most people but for now it's staying at that time. If you want to come to the meetings please send us a better time to meet to stusustainability@gmail

We're also having our first potluck of the year! Come to An Evening With Students for Sustainability Friday at 3:45pm. Meeting in the lower courtyard of STU. We'll be having a potluck from 4-5:20 then we'll head down to the Critical Mass bike ride for 5:30 meeting in Officer's Square. For those without bicycles a walk through O'Dell Park is planned. Then we'll all reconvene again at 180 St. John St at the Conserver House for Cinema Politica Showing "The Weather Underground."  Please bring yourself, your friends, your enthusiasm, and of course, delicious foods!