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GreenTOpia : Towards a Sustainable Toronto.
Title:
GreenTOpia : Towards a Sustainable Toronto.
Author:
Wilcox, Alana.
ISBN:
9781770560857
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (394 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Touchstones -- The green-thumb blues -- Brace yourself -- The Painted Line -- Planning walking zoning greening -- In praise of ugly -- Waste not, want not: Buildings are not garbage -- Put your money where your carbon is: the green property tax -- How green is my city? -- Topography -- From the ground up: Fragments towards an environmental history of Tkaronto -- Power to the people! -- A community vision for Toronto's Taylor Massey Creek -- Noise in the city: Toronto's acoustic ecology -- Something so green, down in the valley -- Can you feel it? Finding the spirit of Toronto with the help of Aboriginal Torontonians -- Life at the speed of a bicycle -- A quick fix -- The water commons: Moving from watershed management to watershed consciousness in Toronto -- Growing our canopy, one tree at a time -- Toil -- The suburban slab: Retrofitting our concrete legacy for a sustainable future -- Acts of salvage -- Port Lands Estuary: A space for animal liberation? -- Recycling animal poop for a sustainable Toronto -- Food for change -- The new workplace commons (and the green of older buildings) -- Developing an ecological imagination: The Black Creek Storytelling Parade -- A transportation vision for Toronto -- Lake Filter Attraction -- Live, work and be green -- The University of GreenTOpia: Great minds for a green future -- No straight flush: Park toilet will compost waste instead -- Talking trash: Increasing waste diversion in Toronto -- Big-box solar -- Tomorrow -- Memoirs from the distant future -- Green parenting -- Forget yellow cabs: Small changes for a green revolution -- Eat the city to save the planet: Toronto as the new agropolis -- Ravine City -- Twenty-five years later, the WEEL is still spinning: International environmental knowledge centre celebrates 25th anniversary.

Island Solar Wind Park -- The Gardiner Garden of the Multitude: Visions of provision -- Road tolls and cashews -- Climate change activism for fun and (mostly non-) profit -- DirecTOry -- GreenTOpians -- Image sources and credits.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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