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[OPIRG-EVENTS] e-Dialogue on Sustainable Communities: Dec. 2-3-4,
Join the Search for Sustainable Communities
Ensuring safe water supplies, coping with crumbling infrastructure and
overburdened transportation systems, diversifying from single resource
economies - these are just some of the formidable challenges facing
Canada's communities. From rapid urban growth to declining rural
populations, from clean air to health care, communities across the
country must deal with complex issues that require comprehensive
solutions.
Finding those solutions will be the focus of a live, e-dialogue forum
on sustainable communities to be hosted by Royal Roads University Dec.
2, 3 and 4. Participants will discuss innovations that will help
communities reconcile their social, economic and ecological imperatives
to create healthy, dynamic environments that are both ecologically and
economically viable. The e-dialogue will feature an expert panel and an
audience from across the country who will be able to post questions to
the panel and exchange views on-line among themselves.
Dates: Dec 2,3,4, 2002 Time: 1:30 - 3:00 pm PST / 4:30 - 6:00 pm EST
each day Where: register and access at <www.e- dialogues.ca>
The dialogue will be moderated by Dr. Ann Dale, Professor, Science,
Technology and Environment Division, Royal Roads University. Confirmed
panelists include:
* Tony Boydell, Science, Technology and Environment Division,
Royal Roads University
* Lindsay Cole, Sierra Youth Club
* Louise Comeau, Sustainable Communities and Environmental
Policy, Federation of Canadian Municipalities
* Al Cormier, Centre for Sustainable Transportation
* Katsitsa Jacobs, Kahnawake Environment Office
* Nik Luka, Department of Geography, University of Toronto
* Michael Masson, British Columbia Building Corporation
* Alastair Moore, International Centre for Sustainable Cities
* Jiri Skopek, ECD Energy Alliance and Environment Canada
* Liette Vasseur, KC Irving Chair in Sustainble Development,
University of Moncton
* Chief Roy Whitney, National Aboriginal Economic Development
Board
* Maureen Woodrow, Global Environmental Change and Human Security
Project, Carleton University
Next week's forum is the third in a series of e- dialogues led by
professor Dale in partnership with Public Policy Forum and the Policy
Research Initiative. The forums are part of a SSHRC INE (Social
Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Initiative on the New
Economy) funded research project to test the Internet's potential to
promote literacy, understanding and action on sustainable development
issues.
You are welcome to observe or participate by registering at
<www.e-dialogues.ca>.
For more information contact:
Isabel Cordua-von Specht e-Dialogues Project Manager Royal Roads
University tel: 250.391-2600, ext. 4269 edialogues@royalroads.ca
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