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  • BMX park along the waterfont?

    Tomorrow evening (Wednesday, December 14) Councillor Sylvia Watson is holding a community meeting to discuss the idea of building a BMX course at Marilyn...

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  • Hybrid taxis in NYC

    On November 10, 2005 the first hybrid taxi fleet was launched in New York City. The vehicle runs on a combination of gas and electricity and generally...

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  • The posters of climate change

    Yvonne Bambrick, one of the organizers behind Pedestrian Sundays in Kensington Market, sent along a photo of some of the street art that lined the streets...

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  • TONIGHT: Ecobunk Awards

    Do you ever get upset when you see blatantly misleading advertisements? So does the Toronto Environmental Alliance. Each year they host Ecobunk, a...

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  • Greening Toronto’s roofs

    Spacing Wire reader Brendan Stewart sent this along: The City of Toronto is currently in the middle of a process to develop a policy that will encourage...

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  • The mayor has a challenger

    It’s election season, but the focus for Spacing this week is not on the shenanigans of Ottawa politicians, but on the upcoming city elections just...

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  • DIPS and other fun at City Hall

    New local street standards for Toronto A joint committee of Works and Planning today considered the “DIPS” report from staff which sets...

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  • Community Gardening 101

    Yes, the ground is verging on frozen right now, but the people at the Toronto Community Garden Network and Foodshare want to put their winter to good use...

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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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