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• Commuter Challenge Week [ Toronto Star ]
• Vaughan a hub for green builders [ Toronto Star ]
• York, Durham burn on both sides of the incineration issue [ Toronto Star ]
• Tax grab hiding in your trash [ Toronto Star ]
• Flick this [ Globe and Mail ]
• Deal will drive up oil prices, Ontario warned [ Globe and Mail ]
• Frog’s leg porridge a bit trickier to eat than a hotdog [ National Post ]
• Anyone for Frog’s-legs porridge? [ Globe and Mail ]
• Take a leap past hotdogs: Filion [ Toronto Sun ]

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  1. While I can’t read the Globe article re: the LED’s, I must say, powering the 1,300 brilliant lights will require next to no energy at all.

    You can try it yourself: get 5 or 6 lengths of LED holiday lights and plug them into a power source with a wattmeter, such as the Powerbox 800 from Canadian Tire. On the 800, the lights won’t even register, meaning they are using less than 10 watts, and that’s 200 lights right there.

    It will also inspire other buildings to switch to LED, hopefully, until the whole world city is on LED for next to nothing.

  2. I love LED lights. They emit a beautiful light, have an amazing range of colours and are extremely energy efficient. I can’t wait to see the day when the LED becomes the primary source of lighting. Nights will become magical and the CN tower lightening up is just the first step. I am glad they did it, I am already all hyped up for Canada day.

  3. My wife and I put out half a bag of garbage every two weeks. I cant help but feel that we are going to be penalized for all the hard work we have done reducing our waste over the years.

    Think of the 260 bags a year we could have put out at no charge as it is now. The new plan, same price but one bag. Thanks City of Toronto.

  4. I can’t read the Globe and Mail’s LED article either thanks to their pay-wall. BugMeNot isn’t very good for getting around it.

    Though I love the idea of LED lights. No longer would orange high-pressure sodium lights be a poor replacement for older white lights (except in the places in the Old City of Toronto where they never got around to replacing them). I can’t wait for LED streetlighting, or when they become practical for home use.

  5. We have to remember that LEDs are not luminants, so they cannot project light the same way a bulb does. I know the industry is working on it, but LED cannot be used (yet) to illuminate, just emit. Does that make sense?

  6. We have to remember that LEDs are not luminants, so they cannot project light the same way a bulb does. I know the industry is working on it, but LED cannot be used (yet) to illuminate, just emit. Does that make sense?

    Ummm… no. It doesn’t.

  7. Thickslab >> I believe you can’t use LEDs to shine light on something and expect it to be reflect that light. They don’t work that way yet. There are no LED spotlights cuz the technology works differently.

    I had a signage guru in Montreal tell me about it, and this is all the info I was able to retain (he told me that was the most important to retain).

  8. Matt — sorry, but you’re very wrong about LEDs. I have a couple of LED flashlights that work great. The beam isn’t quite as focused as an incandescent, but they illuminate just fine. Light is light; there’s no such thing as non-reflective light.

  9. Quas — I thought the same thing as soon as I got home and saw my LED flashlight. I know light is light, but there is something about LEDs that hinder its ability to illuminate surfaces…. Now I need to find that signage guru’s email and figure out what eh told me….