By: Sarah Weaver
Sabina Ali is a busy lady. A mother of 4, she’s involved in several initiatives and committees across Toronto including the Thorncliffe Park Women’s Committee, Access Capital Fund, Thorncliffe Park Kindergarten School Design Team, Women at Work and Evergreen.
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On the set of Leisure Talk! at Fairchild Television (Photo: Nate Habermeyer)
By Mildred Ho
After Evergreen was featured in Ming Pao, a leading Chinese newspaper, we received another opportunity to reach out to the Chinese community through a one hour TV interview with Fairchild TV called “Leisure Talk!”
Fairchild TV caters to Chinese Canadians living in Toronto and Vancouver. The filming took place on December 14 and the show will air in March. And what a pleasant surprise, our host was Dennis So ( 蘇敏聰), a well known actor from Hong Kong!
The whole experience was refreshing, fun and exciting; we had our makeup done, got our message out and an exclusive look of the TV studios! We feel very fortunate about the opportunity and we look forward to collaborating some more with FairchildTV as well as the Chinese community!
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Evergreen's Executive Director Geoff Cape (Photo: Vito Riccio)
Geoff Cape has earned some great accolades since founding Evergreen almost 20 years ago. You’d never know it, but this humble guy has been named the Schwab Foundation Canadian Entrepreneur of the Year, an International Ashoka Fellow, and one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, to name just a few.
Recently, Geoff had the opportunity to talk about his experience as a social entrepreneur at the MaRS Entrepreneurship 101 series. Here’s the recap on the MaRS blog. Here’s the video: http://vimeo.com/17199824
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A woman in Turin making handmade gnocchi (Photo: Stewart Chisholm)
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A young explorer. (Photo: Evergreen)
Evergreen’s Nature Playground is competing for the Aviva Community Fund and we need your help to succeed. The Nature Playground will provide the opportunity for children to connect with nature at Evergreen Brick Works in the best way possible: through food, play and hands-on learning.
The priority of the Nature Playground is first-hand experience and multi-sensory exploration with an edible landscape, supporting abundant opportunities for eating, cooking, and preserving fresh food. Various terrain and paths will snake through themed gardens and raised beds where plants will be a focus of study, seasonal celebrations and sensory delight.
The gardens in Nature’s Playground will feel like a miniature version of an urban farm and use innovative growing mediums and spaces – a greenhouse, vertical gardens, herb spirals, fruit and veggie hedges and fences will define the landscape.
Bringing together all the elements of Nature’s Playground and acting as a focal point of learning and experiencing is the outdoor bake oven and kitchen. Here, children will be offered an opportunity to learn baking and cooking techniques in a wood-fired brick oven—from baking bread, making pizza, pies, and pastries to all sorts of goods not usually associated with wood-fired ovens.
Help children connect with, play in and learn from nature by voting daily and telling your friends. Vote here: http://bit.ly/ebwKIDS
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In a 3 km pocket around Evergreen Brick Works in downtown Toronto, there are close to 10,000 children who have no access to nature from their homes. From highrises to asphalt streets, their play areas are limited to treeless parks and unsafe public spaces. Today and tomorrow, a group of experts (in education, health, design) from Canada, Europe and the United States will share their work and discuss ways to address this reality by bridging the gap between design and programming to build healthy and creative play and learning environments for children.
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Don Tapscott takes the stage. (Photo: Cam Collyer)
In the early morning darkness I rode my bike to Evergreen Brick Works for the kickoff session of T.H.E. Series. Author Don Tapscott, Dr. Mike Evans and Geoff Cape took the stage just after 7:30 am to discuss how technology, health and the environment are collaborating to meet societal challenges on a global scale.
The debate got off to a great start when the moderator made the provocative statement that “technology is evil.” Here are some highlights:
Stayed tuned, T.H.E. Series aims to host 4-6 breakfast sessions in 2011 attracting internationally renowned experts to help herald in the green economy and both teach and learn from Canadians at the cutting edge of the green economy.
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Students on their way to changing the world. (Photo: Sylvie Lapointe)
Have you ever been inspired by a teacher to do, say and make something different of the world? Québec teacher, Dominique Leduc, wants to do just that and doesn’t just see his elementary class as children, but rather as people who can make a difference.
Evergreen is proud to support the documentary “Hope Builders” directed by Fernand Dansereau, where Leduc takes his Grade 6 class through a process of learning that identifies, analyzes and resolves a problem. He believes that children can be critical thinkers and his experimental teaching method and belief in the intelligence of children is going to have results. Hope Builders is a fascinating testament to alternative methods of creating change and inspires all of us to act consciously in the future.
The documentary will be shown on Saturday, October 16 at 11 am at Al Green Theatre and is part of Planet in Focus: an international environmental film and video festival based in Toronto that opens today.
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Not enough can be said about the pivotal role volunteers play in greening cities. From researching and helping in the office to planting to running huge events, Evergreen is grateful to have a steady stream of enthusiastic folk join in. Personally, I know I can always count on a great photographer to come out to my events.
On Tuesday night in Toronto we threw a party to celebrate our GTA volunteers. Read about the event from the perspective of Anfernee, a volunteer who wrote about the event on his blog.
Old friends catching up, new friends getting acquainted. (Photo: Michelle Scrivener)
In a private room of the Magic Oven restaurant on Danforth Avenue about 70 volunteers came out to enjoy food and drinks. We learned about the use of art in the design of Evergreen Brick Works, and took a video “hard hat tour” of the construction site. After that we made art, butter and told stories at our own “speaker’s corner”– stay tuned to the blog for a video montage!
Evergreen staff and volunteers make butter. (Photo: Michelle Scrivener)
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Recently several of my colleagues gleefully spent their Saturday bowling to raise money for Evergreen. They were joined by two other organizations, Daily Bread Food Bank and Reach for Rainbows. The three teams spent the weeks leading up to the big event recruiting teammates and signing up sponsors–family and friends.
As an infrequent bowler, I decided I’d be more useful donating money to “Team Conifera,” named after our Evergreen mascot.
After the event I got to sit down with Cara, one of the Team Conifera captains, to get the lowdown on how the pins fell.
Team Conifera: Cara, Mel, Nicola, Sarah, Zanita and Sue (l-r) (Photo: Evergreen)
As you can see from the picture above, the whole team showed up in style. Cara even wore her costume to the office the Friday before to solicit more donations from the office.
Cara said that Team Conifera made themselves right at home at the cosmic-lit Bowl-A-Rama. Nicola, as it turns out, is a bowling phenom, and the team was by far the loudest.
In total, $800 was raised, but perhaps even more importantly, Team Conifera won the spirit prize because of their costumes, hghi-fives and cheers.
Good job y’all!
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