On November 13 from 12:00pm-2:00pm SFU will be offering a free presentation by Al Gore trained Nick Miller of An Inconvenient Truth and a question & answer session by Amber Church, one
of SFU's climate experts!

Halpern Centre, SFU Burnaby Mountain

INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE IMPACTS AND RESPONSES AND THE FUTURE FOR BC

All day free public event with International and local panelists from 8:30am-4:30pm at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, 580 West Hastings St, Vancouver

The Virtual Energy Forum is a two day online-only event focused on how leading companies can adopt better energy management practices to cut cost, while at the same time adopting clean energy alternatives -- presenting alternative energy technologies, policies, and best practices in a live, interactive environment. The event is designed to meet the needs of corporate energy executives in a way that is not possible with physical events, webinars or other means.

Practical Solutions to Global Warming and Peak Oil with Guy Dauncey

Royal Roads University, Colwood
Thursday November 13th, 9-5pm
$95 + GST

There is an urgent need for practical solutions to both global warming, and our dependency on oil and gas, now that we have entered the era of peak oil and terminal decline. 

Will our civilization collapse under these threats, or can we use our technological and organizational skills to achieve a rapid transition to a post-carbon world?

Topic: Challenges and opportunities for implementing successful climate change and sustainability goals.
Speaker: Dr. John Robinson
Date: Wednesday, December 3rd
Time: 6:30pm (registration), 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location: UBC Robson Square
Cost: $5 for CEP members and $10 for non-members.

November speaker for Connecting Environmental Professionals will be Dr. John Robinson, who is a professor at UBC in the Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability (IRES), and in the Department of Geography.

The Biomimicry Institute (www.biomimicryinstitute.org) would like to invite you to a very special conference covering the leading edge of climate change mitigation technologies. The conference is unusual in that it focuses on one of the fastest growing and most promising areas of climate change technology development: technologies inspired by models from the natural world.

This first-ever intensive will highlight new technological innovations inspired by 3.8 billion years of R&D which are helping us mitigate and adapt to a changing world, for example:

Where: Jericho Park (near concession, NW Marine Drive)
When: Wednesday, July 30th, 6-9pm
Remember: July 30th is also a fireworks night.
RSVP: GreenDrinksVancouver@GMail.Com