"I love that you've brought this to attention. An extensive database of uncommon but resistant and hardy plants/foods could be developed and organized by climate. Ease of growth and processing should also be taken in to account. I will try to…"
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The most resiliant district of Toronto
Following on Toronto's climate resiliency plan, I have had the pleasure of implementing, applying, and improving upon the plan in my local district.
We have a food garden that spans groundwork and condo rooftops. Tourists love it. The nearby mall even has a self-sustaining green roof with augments its air-conditioning costs.
And we count on it's air conditioning: Toronto's extreme heat warnings are notorious. Those without air conditioning, especially the elderly and/or sufferers of respiratory conditions in the area are encouraged to loiter on extremely hot days.
The nearby 401 highway is an important artery for Toronto. A tow-truck (and plow in the winter) are stationed at two major exits - one beside one of Toronto's biggest hospitals.
Those are the highlights. All the details are on the map of
My Hood - Sheppard Between Bayview and Leslie.
We have a food garden that spans groundwork and condo rooftops. Tourists love it. The nearby mall even has a self-sustaining green roof with augments its air-conditioning costs.
And we count on it's air conditioning: Toronto's extreme heat warnings are notorious. Those without air conditioning, especially the elderly and/or sufferers of respiratory conditions in the area are encouraged to loiter on extremely hot days.
The nearby 401 highway is an important artery for Toronto. A tow-truck (and plow in the winter) are stationed at two major exits - one beside one of Toronto's biggest hospitals.
Those are the highlights. All the details are on the map of
My Hood - Sheppard Between Bayview and Leslie.
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Comment by Catherine Gentry on May 4, 2010 at 5:39pm
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How cool, I love the idea of rooftop gardens. Nothing like this exists in my area that I'm aware of, although just last year witnessed the opening of several community gardens on previously empty lots.
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Comment by Jeremy Laird Hogg on May 4, 2010 at 5:55pm
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That's cool. My dr. zuess dream is a District Garden: ample park and greenspace in the area, but where buildings appear to interrupt the green procession, the green actually carries on continuesly over the rooftops. I'd pay to see that.
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That's be great. When I was trying to help "turn my city into the type of place I'd go for vacation," my great dream--which of course was never taken seriously, was to dig up the express way which circles the city and make it a huge park. Green space filled with trees and plants is wonderful. Trees (and working to renew the soils) could help us resolve so many of our environmental problems; seed water, pull up ground water, purify the air, etc.
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Digging up an expressway and making it greenspace, keeping the same shape would be momentous and inspiring image.
Ye, the arborist profession should be visible, vocal and attract lots of students. Instead, the word 'arborist' gets a red underline in this very post. =\
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Comment by Turil Cronburg on May 4, 2010 at 6:36pm
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They did just that in Boston, when they took down the elevated limited-access highway and made it into the Rose Kennedy Greenway, but it's mostly just monoculture mowed grass, and, of course they were able to do it because of the far more offensive, expensive, and insanely environmentally destructive big dig crap, so it's probably a net loss than anything. (They could have saved a lot of energy, and made Boston really cool, by leaving the elevated structure and turning it into community gardens!)
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