No Federal Childcare Program: An Exercise In Strengthening Hegemony
Canada, a nation among the wealthiest in the world, cannot meet its daycare needs. The problem has grown to crisis proportions in the country’s largest cities. In Toronto there are…
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More Layoffs/Less Service? Happy Holidays!
Canada Post to phase out urban home mail delivery Up to 8,000 jobs will be cut, while cost of stamps is going up CBC News Posted: Dec 11, 2013 9:37…
Urban Highways Should Be Torn Down; Replaced By Useful Space
Car-dominated infrastructure is clearly bad for local communities, transit, the environment (local and global), and the economy. So why do so many places refuse to tear down crumbling urban highways?…
I Am Voting For Seaz (Sterling Downey, Projet Montreal)
I have had the incredible good luck of meeting an interesting diversity of Montrealers since I started this blog in 2005 and there is no way I could discuss that…
Montreal Needs Projet Montreal
Saw this article earlier and it just brought up a whole slew of issues as to the wrong directions Montreal has been going in for a few generations. There you…
ecoHackMTL: Totally Awesome!
Almost 100 participants, 12 projects, 4 specially proposed challenges, 6 newly released data sets and lots of happy faces at the end of the day. A huge thank-you to everyone…
ecoHackMTL: Totally Awesome!
Almost 100 participants, 12 projects, 4 specially proposed challenges, 6 newly released data sets and lots of happy faces at the end of the day. A huge thank-you to everyone…
ecoHackMTL: Totally Awesome!
Almost 100 participants, 12 projects, 4 specially proposed challenges, 6 newly released data sets and lots of happy faces at the end of the day. A huge thank-you to everyone…
Lucas Samaras
Was going through some old camera equipment and came across some Polaroid SX-70 cameras and other stuff and thought of Lucas Samaras and his extensive Polaroid work. Much of the…
London Starts Planting Green Walls for Flood Prevention
Earlier this year, Toronto suffered some severe flooding and city planner Jennifer Keesmat composed this great tweet: Suddenly spending $ to maintain all of that not-so-sexy infrastructure and to plan…
Postcards from the Future – Francesco Romoli
Reblogged from ⓔMORFES: Postcards from the Future by Italian digital artist Francesco Romoli. ABOUT PROJECT What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is…
Everybody Street.
Reblogged from greyproductionblog: “Everybody Street” illuminates the lives and work of New York’s iconic street photographers and the incomparable city that has inspired them for decades. The documentary pays tribute…
Better Urban Design Can Increase Happiness and Sexiness
Obesity is a growing problem in North America and it looks like this health issue will continue to grow. There are many contributing factors to what’s referred to as an…
Monocle Looks at the Best Urban Farm Projects
Monocle recently took a look at some of the world’s best urban farming projects. Monocle’s favourite cities combine small-scale neighbourhoods with green spaces, but not all cities were built with…
Methane and the risk of runaway global warming
Reblogged from uknowispeaksense: Research was published this week showing the financial cost of methane being released from Earth’s permafrosts. But the risks go beyond financial – Earth’s history shows that…
Song of the Kauri: a Documentary Feature Film from the Heart of New Zealand
Reblogged from Sustainability Studies: The Honolulu Museum of Art featured a film this month, Song of the Kauri, directed by Mathurin Molgat. The film, a part of the Aotearoa Film…
How six women did something incredible to save the Arctic
Reblogged from Montreal Girls: Very inspiring!
North Pole Web Camera 2 Adrift in Large, Expanding Melt Pool
Reblogged from robertscribbler: (Image source: APL) Last week, a melt puddle began to form near APL’s Camera 2. The pool extended in the near camera field from left to right…
Hundreds of centuries-old trees chopped down to make room for the Pope’s visit in Brazil ~ Daily Mail
Reblogged from Stop Making Sense: The Daily Mail Authorities in Brazil have denounced church leaders as criminals for chopping down more than 300 centuries-old trees in a national park –…
PDBF Teams Up With Greenpeace to Clean Up the Philippine Seas
Reblogged from charly's blogsite: Kudos to the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation for supporting a noble cause!! The PDBF recently joined hands with Greenpeace in a charity program aptly called “Paddles…