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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">I will be in Dominica from Jan 27 to Feb 24. Sounds like a very good idea and I wish you a successful event.
<div>- Greg<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 21, 2016 11:45 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'GREN Executive'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [GREN-Exec] Ignite Waterloo - The Earth Edition<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi GREN exec,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">In case I don’t have time to call you back John or Susan B, I had this idea that I ran past one of the organizers of the Ignite Waterloo events, just to see if it was possible. And now I’m
running it past you for your thoughts. If you don’t know about Ignite Waterloo, see this:
<a href="http://ignitewaterloo.ca/" target="_blank">http://ignitewaterloo.ca/</a>.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The format is about 8 speakers who have 5 minutes and 20 slides to “enlighten us, but make it quick.” The talks are recorded and on youtube forever. 8-) I’ve done three and they’re as terrifying
as they are fun. Could we pull together 8 speakers? Ignite reaches people we haven’t been able to reach at all. Would be a great way to collaborate with WREN, REEP etc. again. The Ignite talks always have great refreshments at the break and I think they charge
about $10/person.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Another option is to see if we could curate our own TEDx event, which would be longer talks.
<a href="http://tedxwaterloo.com/" target="_blank">http://tedxwaterloo.com/</a> A friend of mine (and I think Kevin) is involved with TEDx.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We have to collaborate because there’s money involved with the above. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">There are also Nerd Nights
<a href="https://kw.nerdnite.com/" target="_blank">https://kw.nerdnite.com//</a>. I think it’s time hi-tech nerds met eco-nuts. 8-)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ve added these to my revised attached one-pagers, John.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> iw.tiffanykohl@gmail.com [mailto:iw.tiffanykohl@gmail.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> 20 January 2016 18:55<br>
<b>To:</b> Susan Koswan<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Ignite - The Earth Edition</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">So grateful that you could come to the UW class! I'm sure the kids really benefited from your advice!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">I love the idea; however I need to check the capacity of the group. If you think GREN can round up a minimum of 8 speakersý, making that
part easier on us, I think Ignite folks might be able to help. We would insist that everyone goes thru a speaker workshop of some kind.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The other caveat is fundraising. It takes $4000-5000 to run an event and I'm not sure Ignite can raise that much money....all depends
on when the event is held.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">So - all that being said, let's keep talking - and I'll reach out to Ignite folks!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Rogers network.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Subject:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi Tiffany,</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks again for asking me yesterday – I really enjoyed meeting with the students afterwards (I’m a writer, so love the wordsmithing – just wish I could have stayed longer to work
with them). </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I had an idea this morning that I want to run past you. I’m on the executive of a citizen/volunteer environmental group called Grand River Environmental Network
<a href="http://www.gren.ca" target="_blank">www.gren.ca</a> and we’re in the process of reviewing our priorities. We’re a pretty low-key network, not heavy into social networking, many are retired or current academics, but all with a strong drive to work on
environmental issues from many perspectives. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I’ve been tasked with finding ways to make our existence better known and draw new people into our fold. So here’s the thing....is it possible to collaborate (such a buzzword,
sheesh!) with Ignite’s tech-saviness and experience and GREN’s vast and varied knowledge to create an Ignite event exclusively on environmental issues? Local ones, preferably. A few examples:</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="">1)<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Last year was the 25<sup>th</sup> anniversary of Elmira’s wells being shut down due to chemical contamination – still not cleaned up, but one of our members is a founding member
of the citizens’ group that has been working on getting this mess cleaned up</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Another member is an expert in waste reduction – teaches it at a few universities.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Another is an expert on wild mushrooms</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Several are experts on local water issues</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The event doesn’t have to be limited to members of our group, as there are other groups we could draw from – such as from REEP house,
<i>rare</i> in Cambridge, urban planners etc. </span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I welcome your thoughts. Our next meeting is Feb 1 and the priorities discussion is on the agenda. Please let me know what I can share with them.</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Susan Koswan
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