Green Space
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Biking in Toronto poster contest
The City has issued a call for submissions for the Biking in Toronto Poster Contest. This coming spring, 3,000 full colour posters will be printed and...
By Tammy Thorne -
We will not save the environment until…
Spacing is a big fan of Toronto’s Poet Laureate, Pier Giorgio DiCicco. He is a Roman Catholic priest who writes wonderful poetry and has written an...
By Matthew Blackett -
Stroll: Don Mills & photos from the Moccasin-Rainbow trail
This week’s stroll column in Eye Weekly had me wandering around Canada’s most famous suburb, Don Mills. I remember while growing up Don Mills...
By Shawn Micallef -
Spacing release party: Monday December 3rd
Spacing is happy to finally announce the details of our release party for the fall 2007 issue. WHEN: Monday, December 3rd WHERE: The Berkeley Church, 315...
By Spacing -
Tree Tuesday: Nature in the cracks
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
BrrrBikeFriday!
This Friday is BikeFriday, the frozen edition. Actually, it is not very cold at all. This Friday is expected to be a balmy 2 degrees Celsius. So get out...
By Tammy Thorne -
Kensington Pedestrian Sundays help clear the air
We’re launching Spacing’s “green” issue in a week, on Monday Dec. 3. To give our readers a taste of the kind of questions...
By Spacing -
Tree Tuesday: The travelling redbud
Every Tuesday, Todd Irvine of LEAF posts a stop from the Toronto Tree Tours, a collaborative project of LEAF and the Toronto Public Space Committee. The...
By Todd Irvine -
When animals fight back
Cross-posted from Eye Daily. In Toronto, raccoons and squirrels are par for the course, but as I learned this summer, just because they’ve adapted...
By Dale Duncan -
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