By Jessica Lemieux
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Building Community One Veggie at a Time
The first time she came by, on a chilly May morning, she gave me a decisive thumbs down and kept on walking. The next week she came she gave a tentative...
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Solar Energy in Toronto
If it can’t be reduced, reused, repaired, rebuilt, refurbished, refinished, resold, recycled or composted then it should be restricted, redesigned or...
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Toronto’s Butterflies
–Clouded Sulpher The city’s built form does not easily lend itself to habitats suitable many insects and we go to great lengths to keep ourselves...
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Appreciating Urban Trees
Could you imagine a city without trees? Denuded streets baking under the hot sun in the summer and bleak(er) during the long winter months and eerily...
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Guerrilla Gardening
It’s the summer solstice and a group of 18 guerrilla gardeners descend on a neglected and garbage-filled lot on D’arcy Street, just off Spadina Avenue...
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Paddling the Don
It is 8 am on a cloudy Sunday morning and at Seton Park a hundred or so canoeists and kayakers mill around itching to hop in the Don River for the Annual...
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Edward Burtynsky’s Oil
Edward Burtynsky is a well known photographer of the built landscape. In his exhibition, Oil, which opened April 9th and runs until July 3 at the Royal...
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Toronto Urban Bees
The Toronto Beekeepers Cooperative is abuzz with excitement with their recent win at the Green Toronto’s Environmental Awards of Excellence in the Local...
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Tapping Norway Maples in Toronto
Walking towards Dufferin Grove Park on a chilly Sunday in March I could smell camp fire smoke and hear the sounds of kids laughing and, of course, an...
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Green Roofs Toronto
There is no doubt that buildings make the streetscape of a city. Buildings hold infinite potential. They can create a welcoming space, a barrier, a source...
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Soil Recycling in the Portlands
Toronto’s waterfront, the largest revitalization of a brownfield site in North America, is being cleaned up, one pile of dirt at a time. Soil recycling...
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Walking in the Don Valley Ravine
Toronto’s ravines are spaces of recreation in every sense of the word. The very term recreation has its roots in Latin meaning ‘to create anew’. The...