[GREN-Exec] Fwd: [All] An Event on Nov. 23
John Jackson
jjackson at web.ca
Tue Oct 31 15:19:46 EDT 2017
My most recent correspondence with Michael.
John
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John Jackson
17 Major Street
Kitchener N2H 4R1
519-744-7503
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: "Michael Purves-Smith" <s.purvessmith at rogers.com>
> Subject: RE: [All] An Event on Nov. 23
> Date: October 31, 2017 at 1:37:40 PM EDT
> To: "'John Jackson'" <jjackson at web.ca>
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> John;
> This is wonderful news – more extraordinary serendipity! I will send your email on to the other participants of the event and if I hear no objection by tomorrow noon I will email you. I know Susan quite well (among other things we reviewed each other’s books). I have her email address, but would it be best to contact her through you? I think that the huge advantageous the GREN sponsorship will confer is one of credibility. As to social media, I am philosophically an obscurantist, and I am pretty sure that we are about to watch my concerns be played out in real time, as I hope that the man with the Yellow Hair brings it all crashing down. In the meantime, social media is very important, and all of us will appreciate help from Susan very much.
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> Michael
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> From: John Jackson [mailto:jjackson at web.ca <mailto:jjackson at web.ca>]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 12:08 PM
> To: Michael Purves-Smith
> Subject: Re: [All] An Event on Nov. 23
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> Michael
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> GREN would be delighted to co-sponsor the event. I have just gotten approval to do so - working much more quickly than usual.
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> What would you like us to do to help out - other than to promote the event. Have you got it out on social media? Susan Koswan is our expert at social media so I am sure we could get her to promote it and with GREN described as a co-sponsor.
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> Let me know as soon as your partners have agreed so we can proceed.
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> I regret that I have to be out of town that evening.
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> john
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> John Jackson
> 17 Major Street
> Kitchener N2H 4R1
> 519-744-7503
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>> On Oct 31, 2017, at 10:53 AM, Michael Purves-Smith <s.purvessmith at rogers.com <mailto:s.purvessmith at rogers.com>> wrote:
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>> Hello John;
>> Thanks for clarifying this so quickly. I am sure that you understand that my concern was principally for those associated with GREN who might take it amiss to learn after the fact of a GREN sponsored event. The opposite side of this glitch is that personally I would be absolutely delighted if GREN would sponsor this event. Just reading between the lines of Susan’s email message, you can tell that I have a problem with credibility in promoting this event. That of course comes as no surprise to me, and I have tried to work around it as far as possible. To be able to say that the presentation is sponsored by GREN would be a huge help. For my part I would simply send a message to my co-participants asking them if they would support that sponsorship. I am sure that all would agree. I know that for you it is more difficult, because you and your colleagues would need to have a clear understanding of what you are sponsoring. Time is getting very short, but if you think there is any possibility, I would be happy to meet with GREN representatives as soon as possible.
>> For as long as I can remember, not just in my retirement, I have tried very hard to understand the larger picture of climate change. As you may know, I wrote a long, but somewhat quirky novel to try to raise consciousness to some of the larger issues involved. I was disappointed, but in no way surprised that it didn’t make much impact. That being said, the problem with the biosphere is not going away, and I didn’t feel I could walk away from it without some further effort to make a small difference. Susan when she speaks of slowing the process of climate change actually misses the point of the upcoming roundtable. I’ll email her. We want to discuss the possibility of reversing the process of climate change. The word Holocene has virtually disappeared from the discourse to be replaced with the word Anthropocene. This bit of linguistic flummery is at the same time almost certainly a human tragedy. On the 23rd we would like to offer some real hope that we can set the biosphere on a course back to the Holocene and that the process will holistically include many different aspects, none of which can be ignored if we are to make our way to the other side of the bottleneck of the 21st century.
>> Thanks again for being in touch so quickly, and I hope that serendipity will once again work in favour of Partnering with Nature to Heal the Biosphere.
>> Regards,
>> Michael Purves-Smith
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>> From: John Jackson [mailto:jjackson at web.ca <mailto:jjackson at web.ca>]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 9:02 AM
>> To: Michael Purves-Smith
>> Cc: Theo Negoita; Susan Bryant; Kevin Thomason
>> Subject: Fwd: [All] An Event on Nov. 23
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>> Michael
>> My apologies for any misunderstanding on this matter. In your e-mail to GREN you say that some people are under the impression that GREN is a sponsor of this event. I suspect that this has happened because of the e-mail below that Susan sent out to the GREN e-mail list. We see one of the roles of GREN as being to make people aware of events that they may be interested in. Therefore we often send out notices of other people's upcoming events. We certainly don't intend that to in anyway mean that we are part of or a sponsor of that event. If you have any suggestions on how we can avoid such a misunderstanding, please let us know. One way to do it would be to say in e-mails that we forward is to say we are not a sponsor of this event, but I would hesitate to put such a note on a forwarded event because people might interpret this as meaning we don't like the event.
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>> This is an excellent event. If I didn't have a meeting that evening in Whitby of a Lake Ontario fish advisory committee that I am on, I would certainly attend your event.
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>> John
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>> John Jackson
>> Chair GREN
>> 17 Major Street
>> Kitchener N2H 4R1
>> 519-744-7503
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>> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Susan Bryant <shbryant at uwaterloo.ca <mailto:shbryant at uwaterloo.ca>>
>> Subject: [All] Fwd: An Event on Nov. 23
>> Date: October 29, 2017 at 9:45:51 AM EDT
>> To: All at gren.ca <mailto:All at gren.ca>
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>>> Hi GREN-
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>>> Elmira’s Michael Purves-Smith has dedicated his retirement to understanding climate change and what we might do to slow the process. He has assembled a roundtable of experts and generalists to discuss at KPL, 7:00, Nov. 23.
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>> Everyone is welcome. Please share this invitation with your friends and groups.
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>> Thanks! Susan B.
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