timouse

hey alexis, try

http://etree.org/mkw.html

[as posted to GoodWork http://www.GoodWorkCanada.ca ]

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY

Position: Outreach Coordinator

Organization: Community Bicycle Network

http://www.communitybicyclenetwork.org/

Date posted to GoodWorkCanada.ca: Oct 27, 2006

Application deadline: asap / Dec 4, 2006

Location: Toronto ON, Canada

As Outreach Coordinator you will be regarded as a key

representative of the Community Bicycle Network and

proponent of our mandate of promoting and stimulating

healthy, active, and neighbourhood-friendly sustainable

transportation initiatives within the City of Toronto.

You will be expected to work closely with, support and

collaborate efforts with CBN staff, Fundraising and

Bikeshare Committees as well as the CBN Advisory

Board. This is a part-time position.

As Outreach Coordinator, your responsibilities will include

but not be limited to:

1) Direct outreach to existing CBN affiliates and in the

community at large by: (i) coordinating tabling at CBN and

affiliate community events, including poster project loaner

exhibits, (ii) overseeing and coordinating responses to

general telephone and email queries; (iii) brainstorming

brilliant ways to promote CBN and Bikeshare, harnessing

new members, sponsors and affiliates;

2) Setting a meeting time and, with the input of the Board,

an agenda for all Outreach Committee meetings;

3) Working closely with the Bikeshare Committee to

coordinate volunteer activities and outreach efforts;

4) Coordinating and/or facilitating events such as a

members' night, a volunteer appreciation night a CBN

holiday party, etc. submitting any budgetary requests

to the Board for approval in a timely fashion;

5) Facilitating, in conjunction with staff and volunteers, any

volunteer-driven outreach projects such as Poster Project,

Speaker Series, Market Gallery Exhibit, Bike Swap, etc.

The role of the CBN Outreach committee is dynamic and

has taken shape in many different forms over the years.

There remains a core group of long-term, committed

volunteers, including the outgoing Outreach Coordinator,

who will work with you to ensure a smooth transition and

provide abundant support in the months and years to come.

Outreach Committee meetings are generally held once a

month and events and projects as capacity allows. Please

refer to our website to learn more about the CBN and some

of our previous and current outreach efforts.

http://communitybicyclenetwork.org/

Qualified candidates should send a resume and covering

letter to personnel@communitybicyclenetwork.org; we

regret that only successful candidates will be contacted

for interviews.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Community Bicycle Network, Toronto

http://www.communitybicyclenetwork.org/

Listing ID: 3163

happy birtday sharon!!!

both bought at shows, my favourite way to buy music.

corb lund band - 5 dollar bill

bruce cockburn - life short, call now

$1.50 for water and people think they are getting a deal.

$0.80 for a litre of gas and people are constantly complaining.

GO FIGURE.

What's worse is festivals gouging people with $3.50 and up for a bottle of water. I don't think it should be legal to sell water past a certain price point at a festival/concert. Basically anywhere you are a captive audience. It's a freaking necessity!!

there has been a lot of debate about the language used to describe water and the necessary access to it.

MotherJones.com: How have international trade agreements encouraged the privatization and commercialization of the world’s water?

Maude Barlow: Water was included' date=' as a good and later as an investment, in the very first trade agreement in the world, when Canada and the U.S. signed a free-trade agreement that later morphed into NAFTA. The GATT definition of a good includes water. There’s now negotiations to put water, as a service, into the General Agreement on Trade and Services, which is a proposed international agreement on services. So the World Trade Organization and NAFTA -- and bilateral agreements, because water is also included in a lot of bilateral agreements -- are ways to enforce a corporate discipline, if you will, over governments that want to maintain public control of their water. Basically, once you privatize it, it’s very, very hard to turn back. And once you’ve started the sale of commercial water, both the receiving country -- if it’s in a trade agreement with you -- and the corporations involved have inherent rights in these agreements that don’t exist if you don’t sign them. [/quote']

by calling it a "need" rather than a human right, water becomes a commodity and is subject to market pricing...large parts of the developing world are having to "pay as you go" for drinking water, and a few very large companies are profiting.

pick up "Water Wars" by Vandana Shiva. YOu'll never look at a bottle of water the same way again

thanks paisley for injecting a bit of humour into a dark situation....ironically, as i write this, "knockin' on heaven's door" from warren zevon's last album just came on the ipod.

if you are reading this, male and over 40, it's time to go get...*ahem* "intimate" your doctor

thanks!

cheers, phorbesie.

and booche, you'll have to clean your nalgene bottle with bleach if you really want moobs.

this is very sad indeed...hugs to you mr tonin, that's really rough...cancer is becoming much more prevalent in our society. my friend's mom was diagnosed with lung cancer and is in chemotherapy. the chemo ward at St Mike's looks like a bus station...endless "chemo stations," always full of people.

*sigh*

so what are you saying?

that wiki entry said they are polycarbonate...i don't understand your post.

sorry, that was a bit screwed. i think i hit post rather than edit and then lunch was over

nalgene does use polycarbonate, which according to wikipedia,

Polycarbonate may be appealing to fabricators and purchasers of food storage containers due to its clarity and toughness. Polycarbonate has been described as lightweight and highly break resistant particularly when compared to silica glass. Polycarbonate may be seen in the form of single use and refillable plastic water bottles.

More than 100 studies have explored the bioactivity of bisphenol A leachates from polycarbonates. Bisphenol A appeared to be released from polycarbonate animal cages into water at room temperature and that it may have been responsible for enlargement of the reproductive organs of female mice.[1]

An analysis of the literature on bisphenol A leachate low-dose effects by vom Saal and Hughes published in August 2005 seems to have found a suggestive correlation between the source of funding and the conclusion drawn. Industry funded studies tend to find no significant effects while government funded studies tend to find significant effects.[2]

One point of agreement among those studying polycarbonate water and food storage containers may be that using sodium hypochlorite bleach and other alkali cleaners to clean polycarbonate is not recommended, as they catalyze the release of the Bisphenol-A. The tendency of polycarbonate to release bisphenol A was discovered after a lab tech used strong cleaners on polycarbonate lab containers. Endocrine disruption later observed on lab rats was traced to exposure from the cleaned containers.

the recycling 7 simply means "other," so that's not a definitive clue to what plastic nalgene actually uses.

bottom line seems to be that nalgene bottles are safer to re-use than PET single use bottles, but are also emitters of chemicals...but the chemicals are more likely to leach into water if the bottle has been cleaned with bleach.

gone.

phorbesie, according to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalgene

In recent years, numerous studies [2] have suggested that polycarbonate plastics such as the ones used by Nalgene may leach estrogen analogs into heated or acidic liquids, although Nalgene denies this. It is important to note that estrogen analogs are not, in fact, estrogen, as many have come to believe. Among the secreted chemicals, Bisphenol A is most responsible for the reaction with estrogen. Other research has found that fixatives in polycarbonate plastics can cause chromosomal error in cell division called aneuploidy.

An alternative is available in the polyethylene versions of these products (made out of HDPE, Nalgene's traditional material), which are free of these chemicals. They can be identified by their greater flexibility, their translucent, "milky" appearance, and by the number 2 triangular plastic recycling symbol on the bottom.

see also: Bisphenol A, phthalates

Digging into some of the references from the original wikipedia page might prove useful.

Aloha,

Brad

what he said...although i was under the impression that the clear coloured nalgene bottles (identified by the recycle symbol with the 7 in it) were indeed polycarbonate.

a quick googling turned this up.

i still have one to give away.

PM me if you've never been thrown off oink & i'll hook you up.

In fact, many times bottled water is tap water. Contrary to the image of water flowing from pristine mountain springs, more than a quarter of bottled water actually comes from municipal water supplies. The industry is dominated by three companies, who together control more than half the market: Coca-Cola, which produces Dasani; Pepsi, which produces Aquafina; and Nestlé, which produces several "local" brands including Poland Spring, Arrowhead, Deer Park, Ozarka and Calistoga (a fact that itself often surprises participants in the Tap Water Challenges). Both Coke and Pepsi exclusively use tap water for their source, while Nestlé uses tap water in some brands.

Of course, Coke and Pepsi tout the elaborate additional steps they take that purify the water after it comes out of the tap, with both companies filtering it multiple times to remove particulates before subjecting it to additional techniques such as "reverse osmosis" and ozone treatment. Reverse osmosis, however, is hardly state of the art -- essentially consisting of the same treatment applied through commercially available home tap water filters, while ozonation can introduce additional problems such as the formation of the chemical bromate, a suspected carcinogen. In March 2004, Coca-Cola was forced to recall nearly 500,000 bottles of Dasani water in the United Kingdom due to bromate contamination that exceeded the U.K. and U.S. limit of 10 parts per billion.

thank you for posting this.

not only are most of the bottled water products out there just filtered tap water, but there are other problems. PET bottles (think bottled water and pop) use a metal called antimony as a catalyst. antimony is a neighbour of lead on the periodic table, and has many similar neurotoxic effects. a small amount of antimony goes in to everyt PET bottle, and it leeches out over time into the water/pop in the bottle.

not to mention the millions of discarded bottles every day.

happy happy happy...

congratulations to everyone involved!

superknobs!

that's so cool.

perhaps england has figured out that islands are going to be lousy places to live as sea level rises

indeed.

municipal politics is where the things that really affect your quality of life get decided...and yes, they can be stupefyingly boring, but get involved. do your research and get out and vote.

and where's Jerry?

obviously the Black Widow isn't working as hard as she can to "protect the interestes of the Estate."

i heard that rush limbaugh was not not licking toads.

there should be a special section of hell reserved for these asshats.

al franken was right. rush limbaugh is a big fat idiot.

to complement the "up at 6:30am" thing, i aim for 10:30.

my aim is terrible. i often wind up in bed at 11:30, wishing it were 10:30. fortunately the coffeemaker has a timer, so if i can get up on time & stumble downstairs, coffee is waiting.

congratulations halbert!

i would 2nd the victoria park pavilion idea, or outdoors at elora gorge.

if you can do out of town a bit, niffermouse and i got married in the barn at country heritage park (formerly the agricultural museum).

ROFLOL ... that is too damn funny ... i love it!

Did you ever hear the story about Ann giving head at a Dead show??

gives deadhead a whole new meaning

an coulter was born a man.

confirmed.

just for fun, next federal election, we should not allow men to vote or run for office. i have a feeling it would make for a better country.

robin williams comes to mind.

"If women ran the world, there would be no war....just severe negotiations every month."