Green Space
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Our colourful canopy from a Global News helicopter
Looking west down Queen Street At eleven yesterday morning I learned that Global television wanted to interview me, an arborist, about the late changing...
By Todd Irvine -
Budget committee backs down from funding bikes
We asked and asked. They listened (Councillor Perks did, anyway). But, alas, the Star reported this morning “Bike plan hits funding wall“: The...
By Tammy Thorne -
Move over taxis, New York City cyclists gain a lane
NEW YORK — It definitely takes a person of great fortitude to become a New York City cyclist. A daily trip may involve encounters with wayward...
By Joseph Clement -
Solar in the city
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. Last week, the Government Management Committee (usually one of the more boring committees of council) approved a strategy to...
By Dale Duncan -
Get ready for Spacing’s Fall 2007 issue!
The editors sent the upcoming issue of Spacing to the printer just the other day! That means the new issue will be arriving in the mailbox of subscribers...
By Spacing -
BrownTOpia: Leaf Blower Hockey hits Scadding Park
While I’m very happy about yesterday’s GreenTOpia launch and the upcoming Building Sustainability series, I’m saddened to see this Star...
By Leah Sandals -
“Building Sustainability” lecture series
A new free lecture and discussion series on “Building Sustainability” is being inaugurated this month by the organization Architecture for...
By Dylan Reid -
The invisible presence of parking
Three of us working on The Impervious P-lot congregated in Montreal to interview Gina Laurel, an architect working on a Communications PhD about water...
By Amber Yared -
Saving the urban forest
As Spacing gets set to release a green issue our editors are paying a little more attention to articles in the media about local environment issues...
By Matthew Blackett -
GreenTOpia launch Sunday
GreenTOpia: towards a sustainable Toronto, the third installment of the uTOpia series from Coach House Books, launches with the usual fanfare of panel...
By Shawn Micallef -
LEAF volunteer orientation session
Do you like Toronto’s trees? Do you worry that they are not getting enough love? If so, you might be interested in attending LEAF’s volunteer...
By Todd Irvine -
Greening parking lots
Surface parking lots are possibly the most problematic use of space in a city — their vast impervious surfaces create runoffs of polluted water...
By Dylan Reid