Green Space
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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...
By Dylan Reid -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Dylan Reid -
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...
By Shawn Micallef -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
Take the Tooker
With the price of gas rising, pollution increasing, obesity growing, parking diminishing, & congestion clogging, you would expect government to take...
By Chris Hardwicke -
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...
By Matthew Blackett -
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...
By Chris Hardwicke