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Title GreenTOpia : towards a sustainable Toronto / Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio, Jonny Dovercourt, editors.

Publication Info. Toronto : Coach House Books, [2007]
©2007

Item Status

Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series UTOpia ; 3
UTOpia (Toronto, Ont.) ; v. 3.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents TOuchstones -- green-thumb blues / Pasha Malia -- Braceyourself / Eva Ligeti -- Painted Line / Brendan Cormier -- Planning walking zoning greening / Mark Fram -- In praise of ugly / John Degen -- Waste not, want not: Buildings are not garbage / Catherine Nasmith -- Put your money where your carbon is: the green property tax / Daniel Aldana Cohen and David Wachsmuth -- How green is my city? / Bert Archer -- TOpography -- From the ground up: Fragments towards an environmental history of Tkaronto / Wayne Reeves -- Power to the people! / Sarah B. Hood -- community vision for Toronto's Taylor Massey Creek / Andrew McCammon -- Noise in the city:Toronto's acoustic ecology / Jason van Eyk -- Something so green, down in the valley / Seana Irvine -- Can you feel It? Finding the spirit of Toronto with the help of Aboriginal Torontonians / Kerry Potts -- Life at the speed of a bicycle / Jacob Allderdice -- quick fix / Heather Marie Annis -- water commons: Moving from watershed management to watershed consciousness in Toronto / Eduardo Sousa -- Growing our canopy, one tree at a time / Todd Irvine -- TOil -- suburban slab: Retrofitting our concrete legacy for a sustainable future / Graeme Stewart -- Acts of salvage / Amy Lavender Harris and Peter Fruchter -- Port Lands Estuary: A space for animal liberation? / James MacNevin -- Recycling animal poop for a sustainable Toronto / Liliana da Silva and Man Hin Aaron Cheng -- Food for change / Lorraine Johnson -- new workplace commons (and the green of older buildings) / Margaret Zeidler and Erin MacKeen -- Developing an ecological imagination: The Black Creek Storytelling Parade / Liz Forsberg and Laura Reinsborough -- transportation vision for Toronto / L.D. Danny Harvey -- Lake Filter Attraction / Rose McMillan, EricMcMillan and Len Rydahl -- Live, work and be green / Dale Duncan -- University of GreenTOpia: Great minds for a green future / Bryan Purcell, Chris Caners and Beth Savan -- No straight flush: Park toilet will compost waste instead / Georgie Donais / The Waste Diversion Workshop -- Talking trash: Increasing waste diversion in Toronto -- Big-box solar / John Lorinc -- TOmorrow -- Memoirs from the distant future / Marc Ngui -- Green parenting / Anna Bowness -- Forget yellow cabs: Small changes for a green revolution / Katherine Morley and Rymal Smith -- Eat the city to save the planet: Toronto as the new agropolis / Colin Ripley, Kathy Velikov, Geoffery Thun and Paul Raff -- Ravine City / Chris Hardwicke -- Twenty-five years later, the WEEL is still spinning: International environmental knowledge centre celebrates 25th anniversary / Michael Layton and Bram Westfall -- Island Solar Wind Park / Jerry Englar -- Gardiner Garden of the Multitude: Visions of provision / Darren O'Donnell and Marney Isaac -- Road tolls and cashews / Steven Dale -- Climate change activism for fun and (mostly non- ) profit / Keith Stewart -- GreenTOpians.
Summary More trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City. What would make Toronto a greener place' In the third volume of the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians think big and small about sustainability. From suggestions for changes to our transit system and more mixed-use neighbourhoods to a tongue-in-cheek proposal for a painted line aroudn the city and a short comic book about Toronto in the year 2057, GreenTOpia challenges the city and its residents to rethink what it means to be green in a metropolis, and how to take their love of the city one green step further. Other pieces include an interview with Mayor David Miller and a breakdown of the ecological impact of our morning coffee. GreenTOpia features photos, maps and a 56 page green directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs promoting sustainability in the GTA.
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Subject Environmental protection -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Environmental protection.
Ontario -- Toronto.
Environmental protection -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Citizen participation.
Political participation.
Sustainable development -- Ontario -- Toronto.
Sustainable development.
Sustainable development -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Citizen participation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Wilcox, Alana.
Palassio, Christina.
Dovercourt, Jonny.
Other Form: Print version: GreenTOpia. 1st ed. Toronto : Coach House Books, ©2007 (DLC) 2008371016
ISBN 9781770560857 (electronic book)
1770560858 (electronic book)
9781770560840
177056084X
1552451941 (paperback)
9781552451946 (paperback)
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