Defining green jobs raises further questions. What is a green job? Do we need new green jobs or greener jobs? Who will benefit in the transition towards a low-carbon economy? What strategies do we need to transition to greener workplaces?

The panel discussion will explore these challenging issues on Thursday, January 20, 2011 beginning at 3 pm in Room 100A of the Jackman Humanities Building, located at , Toronto, ON.

Participants include expert activists, academics and policy makers:

• John Cartwright, president, Toronto and 91ÑÇÉ« Region Labour Council
• Tony Clarke, director, Polaris Institute of Canada
• Clare Demerse, associate director of the Climate Change Program, Pembina Institute
• Marjorie Griffin Cohen, professor, Department of Political Science, Simon Fraser University
• Sara Letourneau, director, Labour Climate Project, BlueGreen Alliance (US)
• , principal investigator, Work in a Warming World (W3) and professor, Department of Work and Labour Studies, 91ÑÇÉ« University

Green/ing Jobs is organized by (W3). The $1-million project, funded by the , is addressing climate change's challenge to Canadian employment and work, and the ways in which the work world can contribute to the struggle to slow global warming. W3 is affiliated with the (IRIS).

By Sabreena Delhon, W3 project coordinator.

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To prove his point he created a computer model that duplicated the modern Canadian economy. He then adjusted it so that three crucial elements – consumption, productivity, and population – gradually stopped growing after 2010. He shortened the workweek to four days, imposed higher taxes on the rich, provided more public services for the poor and imposed a carbon tax to provide government revenue. His model showed that within a couple decades things had changed.

The outcomes of Victor’s model were lower unemployment, a rise in standards of living and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The economy reached a steady state after a couple decades.

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Several related to the centre.

"It is exactly what is needed in virtually every community across Canada," MPP Donna Cansfield, the honourary patron for the World Green Building Council and a parliamentary assistant in the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, told the . "It's where you're going to assimilate and distribute information, gather best practices, allow people to look at their ecological footprint, do carbon deduction, and pulling in the community to give them the tools to have a better life. Not a bad idea, when you think about it."

The project also received on and by the .

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"The time has come that we all need to do things differently. Green is the only way to go," Tom Walsh, mayor of Adjala-Tosorontio, told the in their .

By Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.

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Over the next three years, the centre will open and expand its programs to provide workshops, seminars and online webinars, education services, and databases containing 'green' best practice information and resources.

"It'll be a place where a business owner or homeowner can enter, and get information," said David Phipps, director of 91ÑÇÉ«'s Office of Research Services. "We'll understand the information needs the business owner has, and then try to find that. We'll find the best information to help meet that need. The centre is a meeting place, where people can come and have multiple voices."

More details about the project are expected in March 2010.

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