Category: Planning & Environmental Management
Video: Cool Job – Service Planning at the TTC
Fourth year co-op student Eric talks about his position as a Student Transportation Planning Technician for the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).
Sustainability Applied 2011, June 9 & 10, Windsor, Ontario
Drawing delegates from across North America, Sustainability Applied 2011 will be a results-driven, interactive event focused on inspiring and driving action on sustainability and breaking down barriers to change.
Interview with Larry Swatuk
Interview with Larry Swatuk, associate professor and director of the Environment Department at the University of Waterloo in Canada, about the Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) program.
Ontario's Environmental Commissioner reports on government inaction
Image via Wikipedia Toronto – The government is failing to follow through on all of its environmental promises, says Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller. “This government rightly prides itself on the progress it has made in passing legislation to protect the environment,” says Miller, “but actions on the ground often undermine it.” In his 2009/2010 Annual [...]
With millions invested making GTA transit bicycle-friendlier, a new website aims to show cyclists how to take full advantage
Toronto, June 26 // For nine weeks starting July 13, a new public awareness website – Bikes+Transit.com – will shine some sunlight on where to go and what to do with all those new bike racks we’re seeing on inter-regional transit and local buses. “With buses joining commuter trains, subways, highway coaches and the ferry [...]
Time for Green Act in Ontario
Environmental groups are converging on Queen’s Park this morning to encourage the creation of a Green Energy Act for Ontario, essentially legislation that would make energy conservation and renewable power in the province more than a series of unco-ordinated, feel-good announcements. The legislation they propose would be modeled after a similar act in Germany, which [...]
Graduate finishes career as superintendent of Banff National Park
Jillian Roulet graduated with her Master’s degree in Planning from the University of Waterloo and pursued a career with Parks Canada, recently ending her career as the superintendent of Banff National Park. Jillian says the best part of her job was the opportunity to learn, be outdoors, and get to see the backcountry of the [...]
Trees Ontario Grows its Profile at 2nd Annual Green Living Show
This past weekend Trees Ontario attended the 2nd annual Green Living Show which was held at the Direct Energy Centre in Toronto. Staff and volunteers were located in the Urban Forest where they distributed 8,000 native white pine seedlings to guests, answered landowner questions about subsidy programs available and provided tree planting tips and techniques. [...]
Ontario's greenbelt a model for the world
The loss of prime agricultural land near cities due to urban sprawl is bemoaned the world over as a modern blight. But a solution may be at hand, for which Toronto should be recognized as a world leader: greenbelts, or farmland and environmentally sensitive land that has been officially made off limits to developers. A [...]
Ontario Smart Growth Network
The Ontario Smart Growth Network brings together organizations that are working to stop urban sprawl and promote sustainable, compact and healthy communities across Ontario. Smart growth is nothing less than a radical shift in how we approach urban development. It is only radical because much of the status quo is so abysmally poor. For much [...]
