GreenTOpia
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
TOuchstones
Pasha Malla - The green-thumb blues
Eva Ligeti - Brace yourself
Brendan Cormier - The Painted Line
Mark Fram - Planning walking zoning greening
John Degen - In praise of ugly
Catherine Nasmith - Waste not, want not: Buildings are not garbage
Bert Archer - How green is my city?
TOpography
Wayne Reeves - From the ground up: Fragments towards an environmental history of Tkaronto
Sarah B. Hood - Power to the people!
Andrew McCammon - A community vision for Toronto's Taylor Massey Creek
Jason van Eyk - Noise in the city: Toronto's acoustic ecology
Seana Irvine - Something so green, down in the valley
Kerry Potts - Can you feel it? Finding the spirit of Toronto with the help of Aboriginal Torontonians
Jacob Allderdice - Life at the speed of the bicycle
Heather Marie Annis - A quick fix
Eduardo Sosa - The water commons: Moving from watershed management to watershed consciousness in Toronto
Todd Irvine - Growing our canopy, one tree at a time
TOil
Graeme Stewart - The suburban slab: Retrofitting our concrete legacy for a sustainable future
Amy Lavender Harris and Peter Fruchter - Acts of salvage
James MacNevin - Port Lands Estuary: A space for animal liberation?
Liliana da Silva and Man Hin Aaron Cheng - Recycling animal poop for a sustainable Toronto
Lorraine Johnson - Food for change
Margaret Zeidler and Erin MacKeen - The new workplace commons (and the green of older buildings)
Liz Forsberg and Laura Reinsborough - Developing an ecological imagination: The Black Creek Storytelling Parade
L. D. Danny Harvey - A transportation vision for Toronto
Rose & Erin McMillan and Len Rydahl - Lake Filter Attraction
Dale Duncan - Live, work and be green
Bryan Purcell, Chris Caners and Beth Savan - The University of GreenTOpia: Great minds for a green future
Georgie Donais - No straight flush: Park toilet will compost waste instead
The Waste Diversion Workshop - Talking trash: Increasing waste diversion in Toronto
John Lorinc - Big-box solar
TOmorrow
Marc Ngui - Memoirs from a distant future
Anna Bowness - Green parenting
Katherine Morley, with Rymal Smith - Forget yellow cabs: Small changes for a green revolution
RVTR: Colin Ripley, Kathy Velikov, Geoffrey Thun, Paul Raff - Eat the city to save the planet: Toronto as the new agropolis
Chris Hardwicke - Ravine City
Michael Layton and Bram Westfall - Twenty-five years later, the WEEL is still spinning: International environmental knowledge centre celebrates 25th anniversary
Jerry Englar - Island Solar Wind Park
Darren O'Donnell and Marney Isaac - The Gardiner Garden of the Multitude: Visions of provision
Steven Dale - Road tolls and cashews
Keith Stewart - Climate change activism for fun and (mostly non-) profit
DirecTOry
