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  • GTA Carpool registry online

    The Smart Commute Association yesterday launched Carpool Zone [smartcommute.ca], the first Internet carpool service to help commuters in the Greater...

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  • Design for the Cold

    Toronto is a winter city, but we often don’t like to admit it, and as a result, our public spaces are often designed so that they’re only...

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  • Watering

    Spacing editor Dale posted recently on the Eye Weekly blog about the goodness of Toronto’s water, and a recent proposal to bottle it to make the...

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  • The Veins of the City

    Stephen Wickens writes about Toronto’s hidden rivers in today’s Globe and Mail highlighting the long fight to restore our urban watersystems...

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  • First Skate Plaza

    The city of Kettering, Ohio, has built the first skateboarding plaza — that is, a skate park based on the real-life street structures that...

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  • Rivers vs. Highways

    A friend pointed me towards David Byrne’s October 17th Journal Entry where he wonders why we think natural things are beautiful before we think...

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  • The Big Pipe and parks for dogs

    Eye Weekly had two interesting bits in this week’s edition: First, Enviro columnist Gord Perks writes about the Big Pipe in York Region (the...

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  • Take the Tooker

    With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...

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  • Human River on Garrison Creek

    The Human River — a walk along the hidden Garrison Creek Sunday October 2nd 2005, with different starting points along route The Garrison Creek...

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  • Who’s Driving the City?

    While London is installing solar powered lighting in its busstops and New York is putting thousands of new bus shelters, newsstands and, public washrooms...

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  • The Health Impacts of Sprawl

    Our friends at the Ontario Smart Growth Network present a great little event that connects urban sprawl with the increasing obesity of North American...

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  • Today is CarFree Day

    Without the financial support of City Hall, Torontonians are holding their own Car Free Day. Thursday, September 22nd is World CarFree Day and...

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