The Canada Green Building Council is offering complimentary registration to 14 MUN students for its upcoming conference BuildGreen Atlantic NL – Every Building Greener: Emerging Market Trends in Canada.

Could you please let students know about this opportunity?  The complimentary registration is for the conference on Nov. 13 from 12:00 to 5:30 pm , not the pre-conference workshops.

Go to www.buildgreenatlantic.org for more information.

Students should contact me directly for more information or to register.

Toby Rowe

Sustainability Co-ordinator

Department of Facilities Management

Memorial University of Newfoundland

St. John’s, NL  A1C 5S7

Office: FM-2017

(709) 864-2637

tobyr@mun.ca

www.mun.ca/sustain

Good afternoon,

The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador will be conducting a year-long home energy monitoring pilot project funded by the Office of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency and implemented by Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro under the takeCHARGE program. We are currently seeking 750 households from across the province to take part in this project and would greatly appreciate it if you could share the attached message with your members and anyone else you feel may be interested.

If you have any questions please contact me.

Thanks in advance!
Emma Nash

EmmaNash@nlh.nl.ca

Autumn Irish Supper

Thursday November 6^th, 2014

Doors Open 6:15 PM  –  Supper at 7 PM

St. Teresa’s Parish Hall, Mundy Pond Road St. John’s

Some LOCAL Irish Food, Some Irish Music and Lots of Irish Spirit!

Tickets: $60 per person

To Book Please contact:

Ann Marie Whelan: obrienfarmfoundation@gmail.com

OR/ 709 576-6882

Zita Holden: St. Teresa’s Parish Hall       709 579-0065

The City of St. John’s, in partnership with MUN Botanical Garden and MMSB, are offering subsidized backyard compost bins and information sessions to residents of St. John’s.

The next information session will be held on November 9, 2014, 12 – 1 pm.  To register, please visit: http://www.curbitstjohns.ca/

All information sessions will be led by MUN Botanical Garden education staff and will be held at the Botanical Garden. In order to attend the sessions and to purchase a compost bin, pre-registration with the City of St. John’s is required.
Thank you

Anne Madden

Clean St. John’s is a voluntary non-profit organization committed to creating public awareness and ownership, and involving the community in the cleanliness and beautification of our City. We are currently seeking a person who would be interested in becoming a volunteer member of the Board of Directors who has specific skills in marketing and communications and experience developing and implementing marketing and communications strategies and plans.

The Clean St. John’s Board of Directors recommends specific programs and initiatives for committees and actively participates in the implementation of various programs and projects to meet the mandate and achieve the mission of Clean St. John’s.

If you are interested in becoming a member of our board please forward a letter of interest along with your resume to Karen Hickman, Executive Director by email to karen@cleanstjohns.ca

We are pleased to announce some exciting news that will help raise the international profile of environmental justice issues in Hudson Bay. Our executive director, Dr. Joel Heath, has been selected as the 2014-2015 Fulbright Scholar and Visitng Chair in Arctic Studies at the University of Washington.

You are invited to participate in a web conference to learn about Environment Canada’s Funding Programs.  We will provide information on Environment Canada Funding Programs available to Atlantic and Quebec organizations, with a focus on the following :

EcoAction

Atlantic Ecosystem Initiatives (AEI)

Community Interaction Program (Quebec)

Habitat Stewardship Program for Species at Risk

National Wetland Conservation Fund

Gulf of Maine Initiative

Environmental Damages Fund (EDF)

Aboriginal Fund for Species at Risk

The web conference will be held:

in English on October 28, 2014 at 10:30AM (Atlantic Standard Time); 9:30AM (Eastern Standard Time – Quebec)

The web conference will include a 1-hour web conference followed by a Q&A session with participants.

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Meeting information
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Topic: Environment Canada Funding Programs Web Conference
Date: Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Time: 9:30 am, Atlantic Daylight Time (Halifax, GMT-03:00)
Meeting Number: 551 452 845
Meeting Password: 1234

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To start or join the online meeting
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Go to https://gts-ee.webex.com/gts-ee/j.php?MTID=m9a24c72df6b3076ba526da8ce2ebbae6

Nature NL invites you to join John Gibson and friends for a river walk on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 2, 2014, to see if any brown trout are spawning. We will walk along South Brook in Bowring Park (the tributary of the Waterford River that joins just below the duck pond). We will meet at 10 a.m. at the small footbridge near the tennis courts by the old swimming enclosure), and walk up to the bridge further upstream, watching for trout and other interesting nature subjects. Hoping for a nice day, but we will go rain or shine.

Visit naturenl.ca for more details.

As noted at the last general board meeting. The Annual General Meeting of The Quidi Vidi/Rennie’s River Development Foundation is scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 29 at Noon.

The meeting will be held in the main conference room of The Suncor Energy Fluvarium.

Our nominating committee for new board members is Diana Baird, John Perlin and Shannie Duff. Please advise them if you have anyone who may wish to join the board. Also please invite anyone who may wish to attend.

Please advise if you can attend this AGM.

For more information please email info@fluvarium.ca or call 754-3474. Public are welcome to attend.