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GTA Residents interested in Environmental Issues, can meet in Toronto with Sierra Club

EcoCertification Cafe – Making Effective Environmental Choices
Wed, Mar 1 2006 7-9 p.m.
Location: Izakaya - 69 Front St. East Toronto
Contact: Sandi Trillo Ph 416-485-9173
Email: info@ecocertontario.ca

Sierra Club’s EcoCertification Café meets monthly at a downtown café or pub to extend the conversations that naturally begin at Sierra Club events. Books, articles and current issues provide a focus for the conversations, but if you’re not a reader, just bring your thoughts! New Caférs welcome!

This month we’re taking our inspiration from the book: “The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices: Practical Advice from the Union of Concerned Scientists” by Michael Brower and Warren Leon. If you want to learn more about how to make good environmental choices – the book has some great suggestions. We’ll be sharing our own great ideas too.

IMPORTANT NOTE: We’re meeting in a new location this month. I’d like to make a reservation, so please RSVP by e-mail or phone. Thanks – Sandi

About the book:

Paper or plastic? Cloth or disposable? Regular or organic? Every day, environmentally conscious consumers are faced with the overwhelming catch-22 of a capitalist society--reconciling the harm we do by consuming, while still providing ourselves and our families with the goods and services we need. It's enough to make a city dweller crazy. Fret no more! The Union of Concerned Scientists has put together a well-researched and eminently practical guide to the decisions that matter. The authors hope that the book will help you set priorities, stop worrying about insignificant things, and understand the real environmental impacts of household decisions. For instance, you may be surprised to learn that buying and eating meat and poultry is much more harmful to the environment than the packaging the meat is wrapped in, even if it's Styrofoam. This guide takes on both sides of the consumer-impact argument, goring sacred cows of the environmentalist movement (like the strident emphasis on recycling) and the industrialist perspective (like the relentless message to buy more, more, more). If you're confused and overwhelmed by all the environmental decision-making in the modern world, you'll find new inspiration in this book. --Therese Littleton
(See amazon.com for more reviews)




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