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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.
Urban Planners Make You Fat
Georgian London, with green squares everywhere
April recently wrote Bike-Happy, Ped-Friendly Cities Less Obese, but how do they get that way?
Amazing Panoramic View of Rooftop Farm In Toronto
From panorama of Royal York roof by Tony Makepeace
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 tomatoes, edib
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 have bike share systems, so does Toronto.
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.
Minimalist Starbucks Store Notable For What It Leaves Out Rather Than What It Puts In
image via Starbucks
Last year at Greenbuild we learned about Starbucks' new Global Store Design Strategy from Corporate Architect Tony Gale.
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 past, present, and future of food and th
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 teaches them to fix bikes.
In Toronto, a Backyard Transformed into an Urban Farm
Image Credit: Vidafine via Flickr
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.
13,000 Cyclists Take Over Toronto Highways
We often complain about how Toronto favours the driver over the cyclist, but for one day a year cyclists rule the city as the two main highways are closed down for the Becel Ride for the Heart, a fundraiser for the Heart
a project by www.pimpampum.net