Tag: Toronto - Page 12
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Stephen Teeple Shows That Social Housing Can Be Green and Gorgeous
These days, people don't build a lot of social housing, and when they do it is usually, as architectural critic John Bentley Mays noted, "architecturally dull and oppressive places, like jails, meant to encourage tenants to
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How To Live In A 566 Square Foot House: Sleep On A Yoga Mat
Dave Leblanc describes the problem presented to Architect Andrew Reeves in the Globe and Mail: Imagine for a moment you're an architect. You've got a client - a really nice guy - who tells you he sleeps on a yoga mat on the floor.
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Anti-Bike, Anti-Transit, Anti-Green Rob Ford Elected Mayor Of Toronto
I previously reported on the Toronto election that Bikes and Streetcars Are Under Threat As The Suburban Car Loving Politicians Fight Back. Last night, Rob Ford was elected in a landslide as mayor of the largest city in Canada.
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Bike Boxes Come To Toronto In Last Gasp Of Bike Infrastructure Investment
Both of the leading candidates for Mayor of Toronto want to cut back on spending and rip up bike lanes on main streets. The leader, Rob Ford, says "I can't support bike lanes. Roads are built for buses, cars,
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Andrew Heintzman on the New Green Entrepreneurs (Podcast)
All over the world, inspired, creative, (and often obsessed) entrepreneurs are tightening bolts and swirling beakers, inventing the next generation of green technology. Andrew Heintzman is a venture capitalist with the aim of finding and funding these
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Toronto On E-Waste: "We Want It!" (Video)
Two Canadians dressed in orange jumpsuits (really) want your old electronics. They'll take your unwanted stuff, no questions asked, and recycle it, which is a lot better than throwing old computers, TV and stereo equipment into the landfill. Chuck and
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Bikes and Streetcars Under Threat As The Suburban Car Loving Politicians Fight Back
Google the phrase "war on cars" and you will find that across North America, people are using the phrase to defend the happy motorized way of life. As one blog put it: Hiding behind the veil of environmentalism and "sustainability," a small number of
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Urban Planners Make You Fat
April recently wrote Bike-Happy, Ped-Friendly Cities Less Obese, but how do they get that way? George Monbiot writes that "We are, to a surprising extent, what the built environment makes us," quoting a
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Amazing Panoramic View of Rooftop Farm In Toronto
TreeHugger has noted before that Rooftop farms are the growing thing. One of the first we showed was on top of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel in Toronto, where executive chef David Garcelon grows
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Toronto To Get Bixi Bike System; Will It Get Strangled At Birth?
Like American cities, Toronto is taxed-starved to the point that a couple of years ago it couldn't find $75K to save its community yellow bike system. But its gotta be, as a former mayor used to say, "World Class", so if Paris and London and Montreal
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Design For An Electric City For The 20th Century- in 1894
Before he reinvented marketing with the disposable blade, King Gillette wanted to reinvent the city and society. Annalee Newitz of io9 describes his plans:
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Minimalist Starbucks Store Notable For What It Leaves Out Rather Than What It Puts In
Last year at Greenbuild we learned about Starbucks' new Global Store Design Strategy from Corporate Architect Tony Gale. One very attractive feature was that it was not a "one size fits all" program but would adapt the designs to
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Foodprint, An "International Conversation about Food" Comes To Toronto
Foodprint was founded in New York last summer by Sarah Rich (of Worldchanging fame) and Nicola Twilley (of Edible Geography) as a series of international conversations about food and the city....a truly cross-disciplinary discussion that explores the
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Toronto Kids At Risk + Urban Design + Social Media + Bike Culture Mashup Tour
How many TreeHugger hot buttons can be pushed in one post? After Toronto cyclist Charles Prinsep was killed in 2007 while riding across the country, his friends set up Charlie's FreeWheels. It takes kids at risk in Toronto's roughish Regent Park and
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In Toronto, a Backyard Transformed into an Urban Farm
In New York, a group of twenty-somethings who live together make up a hit sitcom. In Toronto, they make up Trinity Reach Farm. Let's call it The One Where the Gang Makes Their Backyard into an Urban Farm. An urban farm
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Are Blue Bikelanes Better than Black?
A recent study in the UK, reported in the Guardian, showed that drivers give less room to cyclists when there is a bike lane than when there isn't. Graduate student Ciaran Meyers attached a special camera to his bike and found that motorists
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Angry Environmentalists Greet G20 Economic Summit in Toronto (Slideshow)
On June 26 and 27, Canada hosted G20, the billion dollar party designed to show the country at its best -- G20 leaders from around the world expected to find a clean, peaceful city laid out to welcome them, before sitting down to discuss the issues of
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A 4300 SF House in the Suburbs Is Not a "Statement of Sustainability"
It started with the title: "Statement of Sustainability" where Ian Harvey writes in the Star about how
