Title & Author:

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

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Series:

UTOpia ; 3

Restrictions:

Access restricted to Kwantlen Polytechnic University students, faculty and staff.

Notes:
Includes a directory: p. [261]-316.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1552451941 (paperback)
9781552451946 (paperback)
9781770560857 (e-book)

Subject:

Sustainable development Ontario Toronto Citizen participation.
Environmental protection Ontario Toronto Citizen participation.
Développement durable Ontario Toronto Participation des citoyens.
Environnement Protection Ontario Toronto Participation des citoyens.
Environmental protection Citizen participation.
Sustainable development Citizen participation.
Ontario Toronto.

Added entries:

Wilcox, Alana.
Palassio, Christina.
Dovercourt, Jonny.
UTOpia (Toronto, Ont.) ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main canada 256619
Call No.: TD171.5 C32 T67 2007
Status: Available