Canadian mag pioneers the “wheat sheet”
May 26, 2008
Canadian Geographic’s annual environment issue, which hit newsstands last week, is the first glossy magazine in North America to be published on paper made from the pulp of wheat straw. The mag’s publishers hope to send a message to others in the industry that adding agricultural waste to pulp mix can provide a new source of revenue for wheat farmers while easing some of the demand of pulp from Canada’s boreal forests.
Green Screens
May 20, 2008
The National Film Board of Canada’s Mediatheque is going greener this month, offering Torontonians a special expanded edition of its free monthly Green Screens environmental screening and discussion series. Green Screens brings together award-winning feature documentaries and environmental experts and the launch of the NFB website FOOTPRINTS: Environment and the Way We Live, offering an important venue for focusing on the state of our planet today.
Environmental theatre
May 7, 2008
Want to combine your love of live theatre with a little passion for the planet? Check out An Inconvenient Musical, a revival of the smash Fringe parody of Al Gore’s environmental documentary An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore (well, an Al Gore character) narrates the journey of Gordon Green, a young musician trying to stop a local coal plant from polluting his neighbourhood. Green pens a tune to educate the masses, comes up against an evil coalition and falls in love with his nemesis’ daughter. An Inconvenient Musical runs June 12 – 29 at the Factory Theatre in Toronto. For tickets, call 416.504.9971.
Local green programming
April 27, 2008
Rogers Cable is getting in on the green movement with A Greener Toronto, a cable show dedicated to all things green in the city that made its debut earlier this month. A Greener Toronto aims to explore planet-friendly living with a mix of information, motivating insights and helpful hints. Guests will include professionals from a wide variety of backgrounds, including environmentalists, non-profit organizations, local business owners and viewers who are trying to make a difference.
An inspired ride
February 4, 2008
After announcing their Greening Toronto - Ideas for a Living City contest a few months ago, the Onestop TTC network is ready to showcase eight environmentally themed videos by local students. The assignment was to make a video inspired by an ecologically sustainable Toronto.
Canadians raise the roof in solar project
January 26, 2008
Ryerson University is among 20 finalists in an international competition to build homes run only by solar power. The solar houses will be judged in 10 areas: architecture, engineering, liveability, marketability, comfort, power generation for space heating and cooling, water heating and powering lights and appliances.
Green Arts Barns application deadline
January 24, 2008
The deadline is fast approaching for applications to Artscape’s Green Arts Barns studios for professional artists. Tenants of the work-only and rent-geared-to-income live/work studios will contribute to the creative synergy, imagination and community that will transform Toronto’s historic Wychwood TTC Streetcar Repair Barns in the St. Clair and Bathurst neighbourhood into a model for innovative creative redevelopment in North America.
Green film competition
January 21, 2008
The deadline for the Greening Toronto: Ideas for a Living City short film competition has been extended until January 22. The project challenges post-secondary students in the Toronto area to take a green leap forward and imagine what it might be like to live in an ecologically sustainable metropolis. Selected videos will be featured in the Student Shorts series, screening regularly on the network of over 190 screens on TTC subway platforms – to an audience of 100,000 people daily.
Green Screens event
January 19, 2008
The Canadian Institute of Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) is hosting a Greens Screens event with a screening of Crapshoots – The Gamble With Our Wastes on Monday night. Billions of litres of water - combined with unknown quantities of chemicals, solvents, heavy metals, human waste and food - is flushed into sewers every day. Where does it all go? And what does it do to us?
iTunes for the environment
January 15, 2008
Tired of surfing the web for environmental news? iTunes has pulled together some of its best green podcasts in one handy place, so you no longer need to troll online for the latest and greatest. The best part? They’re free! Listen to TreeHugger radio, the Lazy Environmentalist, Eco Biz from the Sundance Channel and more.
