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DTSTART;TZID=UTC+0:20170111T190000
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SUMMARY:River Institute: Science & Nature on Tap
DESCRIPTION: \nIndigenous Knowledge and Science: Partnering to Restore Our Environment \nCornwall\, ON – On Wednesday\, January 11th at 7 pm Science and Nature on Tap launches its 2017 season when world respected environmental trail blazer\, Larry McDermott comes to speak in Cornwall at Schnitzels European Flavours.  A member of Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation\, Larry McDermott has a Masters’ Degree from the School of Canadian Studies and Native and Northern Studies from Carlton University.  Executive Director of Plenty Canada\, an organization dedicated to environmental protection and healthy communities\, Larry is also co-chair of the Canadian Environmental Network   Biodiversity Caucus. He also serves as a Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission.  \nLarry provides an indigenous world view where people are deemed an integral part of the environment and that maintains that we can only sustain healthy lives when the environment as a whole is healthy.  Plenty Canada maintains that the bio-diversity of our environment is a precious resource that we all need to care for together.  \nBringing both indigenous ways of knowing and western science to the table as a means of solving    environmental concerns is something that the world actually acknowledged at the United Nations Earth Summit in June of 1992. \nIn Canada we are striving towards determining strategies to protect the environment in ways that combine both indigenous knowledge and western science to create real world solutions to serious problems. To that end\, Larry travels the world with Plenty Canada to share a practical message of cross cultural sharing\, food sovereignty\, sustainable economic development\, as well as traditional skills. The public is invited to partake in a “two-eyed” vision of protecting the environment when Larry McDermott speaks next Wednesday\, January 11th\, 2017. \nThe public is invited to this free session\, hosted by the St. Lawrence Institute of Environmental Sciences\, at Schnitzels European Flavours in Cornwall.  However\, space is limited so if you would like more information or to reserve a seat please call (613) 936-6620 or e-mail kcooper@riverinstitute.ca or visit the River Institute website at www.riverinstitute.ca. \n–       30  – \nMedia Contact: \nKaren Douglass Cooper\nCommunications / Community Outreach Officer\nRemedial Action Plan Coordinator\nSt. Lawrence River (Cornwall)\nSt. Lawrence River Institute of\nEnvironmental Sciences\n2 St. Lawrence Drive\nCornwall\, ON  K6H 4Z1\nkcooper@riverinstitute.ca\nwww.riverinstitute.ca \n
URL:https://www.back2nature.ca/event/river-institute-science-nature-on-tap/
LOCATION:158 Pitt St\, Cornwell\, Ontario\, K6J 4P4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Environmental Education,Member Event
ORGANIZER;CN="St.%20Lawrence%20River%20Institute":MAILTO:kcooper@riverinstitute.ca
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