Archive for Ecology & sustainability

On this first smog day this spring in Toronto, there’s grim news on the climate.     Read more »

As we arrive in the full bloom of spring, the focus on the garden starts once again and many people in the riding are spending a few weekends and evenings working on their front, side and back yard gardens in an effort beautify their part of the city.  But as common as this instinct is, the practice of green gardening is not as wide spread as gardening itself in the city.     Read more »

Thomas Homer-Dixon
Thurs, 2009 May 21, 7 pm
Sanford Fleming Building, Lecture Hall #1105
University of Toronto
10 King’s College Road

Thomas Homer-Dixon is the author of Carbon Shift: How the Twin Crises of Oil Depletion and Climate Change Will Define the Future.  Adriana will be there.     Read more »

A recent report in The Lancet, a top medical journal, concludes that the health impacts of climate change will eclipse all other health concerns.  CBC and the Globe and Mail have carried the story in Canada.  You can find more information about the Lancet / University College London collaboration here.

I know that ardent environmentalists and climate change deniers alike accuse Al Gore of not living up to his own standards, but he does compile some very graphically compelling images of the problem we are facing.  Here is his latest.