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In this week’s NOW<\/a><\/em>, Mike Smith writes about last weekend’s TTC camp in Camp-out with TTC geeks<\/a>. If you missed Matt Blackett’s report on the event, you can read it here.<\/a> Here’s a bit of Smith’s take on the day’s activities:<\/p>\n

If organizers’ obvious passion for the cause holds, similar endeavours could help communities expand as well. This group is mostly educated, white downtowners; if we start dealing with how to make the system accessible to the suburbs, to newcomers, to people without laptops, then the democratic promise of the city could be kept.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Spacing’s subway buttons also get a mention:<\/p>\n

… the subway station buttons speak less to our affection for, say, Victoria Park, than to our love for the city — a revelling in the points of intersection between self and others, in the public intimacy of ridership, in the intersection of individual motion and the city’s currents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nIf we celebrate the stops, it’s because they represent milestones on the map though they rush past the window, like the lovers who pass through our lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also in NOW<\/em>, Adria Vasil writes about how it’s high time Toronto bans the use of styrofoam in Foam here to eternity<\/a>. Toronto intends to start recycling styrofoam by 2008, but many are saying this isn’t good enough.<\/p>\n

“There’s really no viable recycling solution to styrofoam. You can’t take a styrofoam container and maike it into another styrofoam container,” says [Farrah] Khan [founder of NaturoPack, a newby not-for-profit promoting the use of enviromentaly friendly packaging.]<\/p>\n

That means your foam coffee cup might be “downcycled” into insulation fibre, CD cases or those disposable plastic trays for bedding plants, but every takeout container you get is still made with virgin polystyrene plastic. And that’s a seriously polluting endeavour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the City of Toronto makes deadlines to recycle styrofoam, many American cities are talking about banning takeout uses of it, Vasil writes. The article includes a side bar of where to get “green takeout” in the city. For a complete list, visit the website Green Shift<\/a>.
\nphoto from NOW, by Alex Felipe<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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