WHAT: Tour the NOW House
WHERE: 1291 Rankin Street, Bridgeview, Windsor
WHO: YOU, and anyone else who’s interested
WHEN: Friday, January 8th, 2010, 4p.m. – 6p.m.

Visit a 60-year-old post-war bungalow that has been taught to pay its own energy bills.

Take home some ideas of how to green your home—from spray foam insulation and energy-saving appliances to tankless water heaters and solar energy.

Be sure to bring the kids so they can test their Watt IQ in the electricity room.

See display panels that illustrate every step of the energy retrofit and the five differenct approaches.

Watch a movie from the 1940s showing how wartime houses were built.

For more information, please visit the Now House website.

…and to remind Windsorites what’s possible if you want something enough;

WHAT: Forest Defenders from Guelph’s Hanlon Creek Coming to Windsor
WHEN: January 14th, 7:00pm
WHERE: Windsor Workers Action Center, 328 Pelissier

At dawn one day last summer in Guelph, Ontario, 60 people took over an industrial construction site and set up a temporary home, complete with a composting toilet, strawbale first aid tent, lookout tower, and kitchen, protected by roadblocks and trenches. Within hours, word had spread far
and wide and work on Guelph’s newest and biggest business park was shut down. A surviving patch of Old Growth forest and a coldwater stream breathed a sigh of relief, and people from all over the region came to support what became a 19-day occupation.

This took place around Guelph’s Hanlon Creek, a headwater tributary of the Grand River. Part of the largest watershed in southern Ontario, this coldwater creek is threatened by a 675-acre industrial development called the “Hanlon Creek Business Park.” Led by the City of Guelph and other powerful development companies, the HCBP has been subject to years of debate and opposition.

The occupation spoke to many people in ways years of public organizing had not. Hundreds of people of all ages gave support both on site and at packed court dates, rallies at city hall, and countless other ways. When the City of Guelph filed an injunction and $5 million lawsuit against 7 individuals, a high-profile environmental lawyer rushed in to engage in a precedent-setting legal battle that continues today.

Participants in this important st ruggle are traveling to Windsor on January 14th . Besides building support to prevent the HCBP in Guelph, they’re expanding upon a grassroots network of resistance to other developments as well. Come out for a multimedia presentation and discussion about protecting the land, stepping up our actions, forging alliances between Native and non-Native communities, and resistance to sprawl and industrial growth.

Hosted by Windsor Guerrilla Gardening Collective and the Windsor Workers Action Centre .

HERE IN MY CAR - Beyond Autopia and autogeddon
January 15 - February 06, 2010

Opening reception:
(for both the Artcite & AGW “Here in My Car” exhibits)
Friday, January 15, 7:30 pm, at the Art Gallery of Windsor.
The AGW”Here in My Car” exhibit continues through March 28, 2010.

Closing reception at Artcite for “Here in My Car - Beyond Autopia and Autogeddon” exhibit:
Friday, February 5, 7:30 pm.

Nature of Activity: group exhibition, in conjunction with thematically related exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Windsor

“the point is not to write a sociology of the car, the point is to drive”… Jean Baudrillard

Featuring works by:
Matteo Bittanti (Palo Alto, California) “Car Crash Gamics”
Doug Bedard (Windsor, Ontario) “mixed media sculpture”
Peter Gibson / ROADSWORTH (Montreal Quebec) “traffic line interventions”
Ed Janzen (Kingsville Ontario) “mixed media signage”
Tim Laskey (Windsor Ontario) “mixed media bicycle sculpture”
Stephen Schudlich (Detroit Michigan) “chop-shop graphics series”
Eric Smith (Royal Oak, Michigan) “End of the Road photo series”
Sandi Wheaton (Windsor Ontario) “Route 66 time lapse video”

Works will explore issues surrounding the role of the car and car related infrastructure that have profoundly altered the patterns of human discourse / life. Themes will play out in the context of private vs public space, urban and exurban infrastructure, cultural assumption, choice, altered social relations and construction of the self and the other, etc.

Artcite’s “Here in My Car — Beyond Autopia & Autogeddon” brings together an eclectic mix of works that explore issues surrounding the role of the car, and car related effects which have profoundly altered the patterns of human discourse / life.

On Facebook? Check out this event listing HERE