WEAR aims to remove that barrier by providing the most relevant, up-to-date content, through our many engaging sessions and in a format that allows for deeper participation and collaboration.
Since 2014, WEAR has succeeded in bringing together diverse perspectives from across the entire fashion system. Our intimate format allows for meaningful connections and breakthrough learning that lead to a clear path to action.
Our theme for 2019 is Purpose Meets Progress, which is a celebration of the incredible efforts and advancements coming from every corner of the industry.
We know perfection doesn’t exist, and that as long as we have a purpose and are making progress, we can collectively turn things around before it’s too late.
Creating Good Jobs, Making Sustainable Products, Challenging Climate Change
GM’s bosses are closing the auto plant in Oshawa, but workers want to create good jobs and produce green and sustainable energy products.
Join us for a discussion with Linda McQuaig (author and journalist), James Hutt (LEAP), Rebecca Keetch (autoworker, Green Jobs Oshawa) and Fred Hahn (CUPE Ontario). Show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa.
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Make Public Ownership of the Oshawa Plant an Election Issue,
Support Green Jobs Oshawa!
GM Oshawa was once the home of the largest auto facility on the continent. GM no longer wants it, aside from a small project that might at most, provide 300 jobs. But workers do, and they have plans for it. The Oshawa plant could create many more good, sustainable jobs, by converting the facility into a manufacturing hub for electric vehicles and other sustainable energy products. This requires that governments step in, and have democratic public ownership replace corporate ownership and make products that challenge climate change. To make this possible we need to show solidarity with Green Jobs Oshawa, the worker-led movement leading this campaign. We need to build a worker-green alliance grounded in concrete struggles, making the idea of Just Transition, something real. In the upcoming federal election, we need to push politicians and their parties beyond platitudes about climate change and green jobs. Here is a concrete opportunity to really do something about it. This requires placing, to the extent we can, a radical transformation of economic structures and power, led by workers, on the public agenda.
Sponsored by Socialist Project, Green Jobs Oshawa, and The LEAP
Looking to land your dream job? The U of T Sustainability Career Fair – hosted by the Sustainable Engineers Association – aims to connect passionate students with companies focused on environmental, financial, and social sustainability initiatives! Connect with representatives from top-notch consulting companies, government agencies, NGOs, engineering service companies, as well as graduate institutions.
Join us on October 9, 2019 from 10 am to 3 pm at the Hart House Great Hall (7 Hart House Circle) for a day of networking, recruitment, and building meaningful connections with 15+ amazing startup and corporate employers.
Registration is FREE, sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sea-2019-sustainability-career-fair-tickets-70232825271
Interested in getting a photo taken for your LinkedIn profile? A professional headshot booth will also be available!
Currently Confirmed Attendees: (as of 9/3/19)
This list is continually being updated – stay tuned for the full list of attendees!
-Tridel
-Clear Blue Technologies
-UTM
-Ontario Sustainable Engineers Association
-Tetra Tech
-Arup
-AECOM
-IESO