Energy Descent Action Theatre

Event Details

Time: October 21, 2012 from 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Location: Trinity St. Paul's Church, Gymnasium (near Spadina station)
Street: 427 Bloor Street West
City/Town: Toronto
Website or Map: https://maps.google.ca/maps?q…
Event Type: theatrical, community, empowerment
Organized By: Transition Toronto
Latest Activity: Oct 16, 2012

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Event Description

Time is running out to reverse the devastating effects of climate change. At the same time, our addiction to fossil fuel is becoming increasingly costly to satisfy as supply limitations manifest. We must plan for more sustainable Toronto communities - NOW!

Citizens of Toronto can act as a community to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels. More importantly, we can have fun and eat cake doing it.

Transition Toronto's Energy Descent Action Theatre is a theatre-based community event where we learn a little, play a little, and in the process the audience makes Toronto's Energy Descent Action Plan. Then we eat cake.

Toronto's Energy Descent Action Plan will be a long-term vision and action plan for a smooth ride down the fossil fuel curve, rather than a drop off the cliff at the end of cheap energy. Climate change and peak oil are difficult predicaments, but with careful planning we can maintain and even improve our standard of living and social equity as we move into the post-carbon age. This is a historical moment in which we either try to cling to an increasingly unfeasible way of life, or we make a plan to live within our energy means and find new ways to be true communities.

There is no one and no group more qualified than the residents of Toronto communities to make Toronto's Energy Descent Action Plan. There's also no better way to unlock the collective genius of our communities than a fun, creative time at the theatre.

Join us October 21st and make history by developing the first mega-city scale Energy Descent Action Plan.

$12, or just $9.70 if you purchase through Eventbrite here. You can also RSVP on facebook here.

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Comment by Ellen Michelson on August 24, 2012 at 1:23pm: Hi. Thanks, Andrew, for your email about plans to promote this the Sep. 8-9 wknd. I can offer another opportunity. The Green Party is having a table at the Cabbagetown Festival on Sun. Sep. 9. A couple of community groups are already planning to use our table as their base. Would someone like to come join us, provide posters, etc.? Tables are set up on Parliament Street, and usually there are a >lot< of passers-by, walking down the middle of the street, so just standing there, greeting people and starting conversations can be effective and fun. Whoever comes can e.g. leave stuff on & under our table, e.g. lock your bike nearby. Anyone interested please email me at voteellen@greenparty.ca if interested, and we can fine-tune plans.

Comment by Renia Tyminski on August 20, 2012 at 11:07am: I hope that's gluten-free cake ;-) Nicole Foss articulates the links between diet, preventive health care, and the EDAP for those following her on FB. As those attending to mindbody chemistry know, we run more efficiently and focus better on a high octane, low carb diet... Congratulations to everybody at TTO for getting to this stage. TPEC is also looking forward to a vibrant new season of community consciousness raising.

Comment by Glenn Lalonde on August 20, 2012 at 10:11am: Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the invite. It's been a bust period. I got the Toronto-GTA Paleo Life group going and have been bringing buyers together for bulk purchases for a few items. I try and organize monthly meetups on health, fitness, and nutritional issues. The next I am piecing together will be on Celiac disease with a N.D. who has been grain-free for 20 years. That weekend one of my son'r has a birthday. I am really tempted. My oldest son is a drama teacher in tobicoke. That might be enough to get him to go too. Then we could continue doing things in common. LOL. Your doing great work Andrew. Cheers.

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