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This is a listing of all of our events, upcoming and past.
To see our calendar, go here Cool North Shore Calendar.

  • The blooming of urban vegetable gardening: How to get involved on the North Shore
    Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 6:30pm
    Bistro Chez Michel
    224 Esplanade West
    North Vancouver, B.C.
    Do you feel overwhelmed by the magnitude of the environmental problems that we are facing? Are you looking for ways to get more connected to your food and your neighbours? The Edible Garden Project is providing tangible, positive ways for North Shore residents to become more engaged in the food system, to participate in redefining that system and to enhance and support the community at...
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  • Green Entrepreneurship: Creating your Green Future
    Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 6:30pm

    Bistro Chez Michel

    224 Esplanade West

    North Vancouver, B.C.

    Do you feel a desire and an urgency to help solve some of the many environmental challenges that we face across the planet?  Do you also feel tired of hearing people just talk about these issues without actually doing anything to overcome them?  If so, you may have just what it takes to become an eco-entrepreneur.  Come learn what an experienced eco-entrepreneur thinks...
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  • Cool Drinks - Ethics of Water in an Uncertain Future: North Shore implications
    Wednesday, March 9, 2011 - 6:30pm

    Bistro Chez Michel

    224 Esplanade West

    North Vancouver, B.C.

    This region of British Columbia has the best water in Canada.  It is also the country's largest consumer of water. Although we have abundant rainfall, lakes and flowing streams on the North Shore, water management expert, Dr. Hans Schreier, says we need to pay attention to how much water we are using--and running down the drain. Given urban growth,...
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  • Cool Drinks: Considering Climate Change in Nepal and the North Shore, Learning From the Connection
    Wednesday, January 19, 2011 - 6:30pm

    Bistro Chez Michel

    224 Esplanade West

    North Vancouver, B.C.

    Our topic for the evening is “Considering Climate Change in Nepal and the North Shore, Learning From the Connection”. In BC it is often easy to feel isolated from the effects of Climate Change. It may even appear as though it isn’t happening or that it will have minimal impacts on us on the North Shore. That same sentiment is not felt in Nepal. There the...
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  • “How to Stay Sane as the World Goes Crazy: Economic Hard times, Climate Change and the Messy Issues of Oil” with Kathy McMahon
    Monday, October 18, 2010 - 7:00pm

    SFU Harbour Centre - Room 1400

    515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3

    Cost: By Donation

    PLEASE REGISTER AT: http://peakoilblues.eventbrite.com/

    As we’re bombarded with alarming headlines on a daily basis, how do we find the sane space between Doom and Denial?  Is there a place for wit when we examine the major challenges of our lifetime:  economic depression, environmental degradation, and energy depletion?  Is blind optimism itself, a diagnosable mental disorder?  ...
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  • HOW TO STAY SANE AS THE WORLD GOES CRAZY -with Kathy McMahon - Special Cool Drinks edition!
    Friday, October 15, 2010 - 5:30pm
    DNV Chambers 355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver
    Economic Hard Times, Climate Change and the Messy Issues of Oil

    With humor and insight, clinical psychologist Kathy McMahon addresses a few of the major challenges of our time and discusses why “all or nothing” thinking is cutting short a more serious conversation about what we value, how our values dictate our behavior, and what we need to do to...

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  • Cool Drinks, Roger Bayley: Increase Your Home Attractiveness & Value through Sustainable Community Building
    Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 6:30pm

    Gleneagles Golf Course
    6190 Marine Drive
    West Vancouver, B.C.
     

    How making your block sustainable can pay dividends!

    This evening with Roger Bayley will address the impact of the building and construction industry on greenhouse gas emissions, resource use and waste. The discussion will focus on the lessons learned in the design and construction of Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Village with regards to...

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  • Cool Drinks, Conrad Schmidt: Is EcoDensity Really Green?
    Thursday, April 22, 2010 - 6:30pm

    Mollie Nye House
    940 Lynn Valley Road
    North Vancouver, BC

    Eco-density, electric cars, green buildings, and other efficient technologies are often portrayed as the solution to our current environmental problems. Yet, history shows that increasing efficiency ultimately leads to an increase in use of resources and further environmental damage. Without reducing the demand, the current e...

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  • District of North Vancouver Workshop on Climate Change
    Thursday, March 25, 2010 - 7:00pm

    District Hall located at 355 West Queens Road

    Help create the right policy directions for the new Official Community Plan!

    In December 2009, Council endorsed a Vision, Principles and Goals to the guide the development of a new Official Community Plan (OCP). The District is now working on developing policy directions related to each goal area. A series of public workshops will take place in March through May 2010 to engage members...

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  • Cool Drinks, Jon Cooksey: Saving Civilization with Comedy - A talk by the man behind the movie “How To Boil A Frog”
    Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 6:30pm

    Rocky Mountain Flatbread Restaurant

    Jon as clueless corp tool (hi-res) cropped.JPGWriter-producer-activist Jon Cooksey mixes humor, credit crisis metaphors and hard-hitting facts to show how climate change is only one symptom of an even messier problem: overshoot. “Overshoot means too many people using up...

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