Valentines Day | Getting it on for the good of the planet‏

Eco-Ideas for celebrating Valentines Day
§ Shower together (support LUSH to contribute to direct action group ‘Plane Stupid’)
§ Create a vegan locally-harvested SOL food Valentines meal [sustainable, organic, local where possible with emphasis on fair trade]
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Sweden’s Sweeping Green Roofed Hillside City

by Mike Chino

Nestled beneath an undulating series of rolling green roofs, Kjellgren Kaminsky Architects New Heden project transforms a vacant city block is a self-contained sustainable city interspersed with cycling paths and walkways. Envisioned as a “green lung” for Gothenburg, Sweden, the development will introduce a beautiful expanse of fresh green space to an area currently consumed by parking lots and football [...]

From Nuisance to Asset: The Greening of Alleyways

Sarah Kuck
January 22, 2009 4:54 PM
Picture for yourself a concrete-laden alley, with rainwater pooling in its eroded depressions. Tall buildings border the alley, making it a dark and potentially dangerous place. Constructed for cars, trucks and trash, the space is covered in filth. Few people find reason to walk here, [...]

Alarming Photos of Water at Fanshawe Lake

Alarming photos from a member of the Council of Canadians | London esteemed water protection committee.
Apparently, the UTRCA (Upper Thames River Conservation Authority) use to have a program called CURB (clean up Rural beaches) which worked with farmers to control run off.  When the Tories came to power in 1995, they killed the UTRCA budgets [...]

True Cost Economics | We must green the market

We must green the market
Everywhere we look, the prices of goods don’t reflect the true environmental costs of their production

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THOMAS HOMER-DIXON AND STEWART ELGIE
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
August 6, 2008 at 8:13 AM EDT
Modern capitalist markets are among the most amazing institutions humankind has ever created. They are mighty engines [...]

Just, Green and Beautiful Cities

For the better part of the last century, the conservation movement and its offspring, the environmental movement, have had a negative view of cities.
It started with John Muir’s celebration of nature in reaction to the ugliness of industrial development, urban pollution, congestion, and noise. But this bias against cities is changing. Environmental groups now acknowledge [...]

The New City Beautiful

It can happen in your town: Streetscapes blooming with wildflowers, industrial waterfronts transformed into parks, and creeks once again dancing with salmon. A green urban renaissance is growing

On a brilliant blue sky day in May, a shining silver fish jumps the rapids of Whatcom Creek past the old marble city hall building in Bellingham, Washington, [...]