Brendon

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#ldnont 🇨🇦 Bird conservation nerd, doing research in urban planning. I work with #environment #nonprofits at intersections of #communityorganizing, #policyanalysis, #naturebasedsolutions and #urban #ecology

When politicians don't stand up for civil rights... ... it's up to citizens to fight for those rights in court. Nobody else can do it for us.
Enough with divisive party politics COOPERATE AND WIN.
PhD Dissertation Defense in Biology March 6, 2025 Kresge Building, Room 106 & streamed on Zoom Western Characterising Bird-Window Collisions from an Avian Visual Perspective Brendon Samuels Supervisor: Scott MacDougall-Shackleton Committee Members: Chris Guglielmo, Natasha Mhatre
Suggestions of specific climate communication tools and improvements 1. CEAP toolkits for specific stakeholder types who can help amplify communications and engagement with key audiences in different contexts: e.g., CEAP action-orienting for university and college classes, classroom educators, realtors, lending companies, landscaping companies. 2. Through partnerships, develop a framework for helping Londoners to cope with climate anxiety: e.g., London-adapted version of this handbook. 3. Expanding on EarthFest, pilot a city-wide "Climate Action Week" with different themes (example); concentrate adaptation priorities that require one-time community-led actions within these weeks and incentivize employers and industry partners to promote participation among their networks: g., workshops on DIY home retrofits, installing rain gardens, creating profiles on Project Neutral 4. The City should exercise caution around climate change disinformation associated with engagement on social media. For instance, current trends in management and the user base of X (Twitter) make it unsafe for Londoners to access reliable public information from the city about climate change on that platform. Generally speaking, the experience of using Twitter to access information about City services does not seem to align with Council's strategic plan and exposes Londoners to unsafe conditions. Is the City open to adopting alternative social media platforms ? 5. Exercise caution and avoid describing extreme weather events as "natural disasters" which ca undermine understanding of the root (artificial) causes and effects of climate change (source)
"It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give. "I am here because you see in me the promise, the promise that we made two hundred years ago in this city - the promise kept. We have kept it, on Anarres. We have nothing but our freedom. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars. Nor do we have much else. We are sharers, not owners. We are not prosperous. None of us is rich. None of us is powerful. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere."
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LONDON Getting Involved in Municipal Politics Getting Ready for 2026 @ Thurs. January 30| • 7:00 - 9:00pm | • Goodwill Industries Town Hall Room (255 Horton St. E.) Join us for a... Panel Discussion plus Q&A Session Panelists • Councillor Elizabeth Peloza • Councillor David Ferreira • Former Councillor Maureen Cassidy Moderated by Brendon Samels Presentation from 7:00-8:00pm. League business begins at 8:00pm. Everyone Welcome! Non-League members and individuals are welcome to attend all League events. For more information about Urban League London visit urbanleague.ca
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