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Tip: Your message to SUST-MAR must be html-free. So, BEFORE you hit SEND, please go to your "Format" pull-down menu and select "Plain text." Thanks! ____________________________________________________________________________ Hello! Four great things FYI. Feel free to distribute. ******************************************************************* Round Table on Corporate Social Responsibility: Current Trends in Canada and the Role of Maritime Business With Toby Heaps, the Editor and Publisher of Corporate Knights Magazine Wednesday, April 7 5:30 - 7:30 PM Room #41 1322 Robie St. (corner of University Ave.) School for Resource & Environmental Studies (SRES) Dalhousie University Free. Refreshments provided. Space Limited. Please RSVP to cesr@dal.ca Toby A.A. Heaps Editor and Publisher of Corporate Knights Magazine Corporate Knights (www.corporateknights.ca) works to promote understanding on the growing space where business ethics is not an oxymoron. The aim of Corporate Knights is to be the primary resource for citizens (both humans and corporations) on the topic of responsible business. To submit to the industry jargon, Corporate Knights' specific areas of coverage include Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Toby is incredibly well-connected to the business community and to government officials in Canada and the U.S.; people who answer the phone for him include: Maurice Strong, Frank McKenna, Stephen Harper, Jack Layton, Finance Minister of Serbia Mladjan Dinkic, David Anderson, Brian Tobin, Gordon Nixon, Travis Engen, David Suzuki, Nancy Hughes Anthony (Chamber of Commerce CEO), Thomas d'Aquino, Peter Lougheed, Ralph Nader, George Heller (CEO of HBC), and John Hunkin (CEO, CIBC). Event organized by the Society for Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility (CESR) To RSVP, please email us at: cesr@dal.ca / Our web site: http://is2.dal.ca/~cesr/ ******************************************************************* THE CORPORATION directed by Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott and Joel Bakan is coming to the Oxford Theatre on Quinpool St. in Halifax on April 9. We really encourage you to go see it, it's two thumbs up! http://www.thecorporation.tv/ Starring 7 CEOs, 3 VPs, 2 Whistleblowers, 1 Broker, 1 Spy, and 1 Big Mess. With Peter Drucker, Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, Mark Kingwell, Vandana Shiva, and muckraking filmmaker Michael Moore as themselves. Winner of the Audience Award at Sundance and the People's Choice Awards among many others. ******************************************************************* GO FURTHER film directed by Ron Mann. This documentary follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fuelled bus-ride on an eco-consciousness raising journey down the Pacific Coast. The documentary will be coming to theatres in Canada on Earth Day, April 22 http://www.sphinxproductions.com/pages/film_gofurther.html - be sure to stay tuned for showings in your community! *In case you haven't seen this great 1-minute flash related the film and to Woody's thoughts on sustainability (you need speakers/headphones on your computer) http://www.voiceyourself.com/03_thoughtsfromwithin/03_main.php ******************************************************************* WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH? Documentary On the Nature of Things (CBC Television) Sunday, April 4, 2004 When is Enough, Enough? tells the disturbing story of the Mikisew Cree's challenge to the Goliath of big oil - airing on THE NATURE OF THINGS WITH DAVID SUZUKI on Sunday, April 4, 2004 on CBC Television. Check your local listings. http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/show_enough.html *Earth Day Canada - Celebrate on April 22: www.earthday.ca/ *Be sure to take the Nature Challenge (It's free and for the earth): http://www.davidsuzuki.org/WOL/Challenge/ ENJOY! Tamara Tamara Lorincz French student BA, BComm, MBA, LLB 55 Willowbend Court Halifax, NS CANADA B3M 3L3 (902) 443-2423 tlorincz@dal.ca CESR: http://is2.dal.ca/~cesr/ EAC: http://www.ecologyaction.ca HPC: http://hfxpeace.chebucto.org/ "A better world is possible" ____________________________________________________________________________ Did a friend forward this to you? Join sust-mar yourself! Just send 'subscribe sust-mar' to mailto:majordomo@chebucto.ca
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