Green Space / Espace vert
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Montreal will have the greenest highway ever
rue Cazelais before rue Cazelais after The MTQ released its latest renderings on the future Turcot interchange for the first BAPE information session...
By Jacob Larsen -
What Montreal can learn from Cleveland
Source: MTQ I was reading recently about Cleveland’s efforts in the 1970s to stop a county-planned highway from tearing a giant swath through one of...
By Jacob Larsen -
Tree tuesday: Nuts, smoke, bats ‘n syrup: the shagbark hickory
The shagbark hickory is to shagginess what the beech is to smoothness. No other tree on the island of Montreal could be mistaken for the shagbark. So...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Uncovering Turcot’s future (under a mountain of paper): BAPE documents reviewed
Source: MTQ On March 24, the Bureau des Audiences Publiques sur l’environnement revealed the documents which it will be considering its...
By Jacob Larsen -
Le mardi des arbres: Le hêtre qui persiste et signe
Sans doute vous reconnaissez ces arbres à l’écorce lisse et pâle, souvent autographiés. En fait, l’écorce de l’hêtre à grande feuilles...
By Bronwyn Chester -
The annual march against police brutality
Police making their way up de Pins. This photo courtesy of Benoit Falardeau By now anyone paying attention to the news knows that there was a...
By KC Bolton -
Tree tuesday: And the first flower of spring is …..
Upcoming tree walk: The Trees of Mount Royal on the Cusp of Spring, this Sunday, details at end of article I’ve been told that the silver maple is...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Brooks in the City
Preparing the foundation for the Meilleur-Atlantique tributary sewer on north shore of Montreal. (Photo source: City of Montreal Archives) How else...
By Andrew Emond -
Le mardi des arbres: le pin gris, le pin phénix
VISITE GUIDÉE DES ARBRES DU MONT ROYAL EN HIVER: le dimanche 15 mars, détails à la fin de l’article Pardonnez-moi ma préoccupation des pins...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Our sewage plant is (unfortunately) bigger than yours
Living in a city, I find it disturbingly easy to remain blissfully unaware of the resources we use and the wastes we produce. So I jumped at the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Tree Tuesday: White spruce, right spruce, light spruce
Saturday walk: The Trees of Mount Royal in Winter (details at end) The light was gorgeous this past Saturday when I was up skiing with friends on the...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Photo du Jour : Dog and Dollar Bin
A dog patiently awaits his human companion outside the Librairie du Québec, a shop specializing in used books and records (as well as teddy bears and VHS...
By Alanah Heffez