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Earth Summit 2012 Campaign Launch - Celebrate Sustainability
November 24, 2010
Join us in shaping our common future! A fundraiser featuring an eco-fashion show of award winning designers, live painting show to a contemporary violin performance, dancing and a Call to Action by leading sustainability thinkers will launch the Earth Summit 2012, Canada-wide Campaign. The Campaign encourages Canadian civil society to get involved in the sustainable development discussions in the lead-up to the Earth Summit 2012, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The campaign is organized by The Canadian Earth Summit Coalition, a group of networks, non-profits, research organizations and individuals working towards Canadian leadership at Earth Summit 2012 (formally known as United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development 2012).
Sustainability Speakers:
William (Bill) Rees - Director of the One Earth Initiative, Professor and creator of the Ecological Footprint.
Vanessa Timmer - Co-founder and Executive Director of the One Earth Initiative, co-host of The Sustainable Region, an award-winning television show.
Nicole Bridger - internationally recognized, award-winning eco designer will front the fashion show.
For more information on the Sustainability Speakers, you can visit
http://oneearthweb.org/
For more information on the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, please visit www.uncsd2012.org
Time: 7:00pm
Venue: Fortune Sound Club
Location: 147 East Pender Street / Chinatown Vancouver, ON
Website: http://personal.paypal.com/ca/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&content_ID=marketing_ca/send_mone
For information contact: Helen Beynon, helen@earthsummit.ca
Categories: Social Change, Social Justice, Alternatives
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