[getsmart-l] The Future of Water in Toronto

[Janet May]

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From: TheTMP [mailto:thetaylormasseyproject at sympatico.ca] 
Sent: April 12, 2008 4:58 PM
To: Eco at thetmp.org
Subject: The Future of Water in Toronto

 

 

THE TAYLOR MASSEY PROJECT

       Celebrating and Protecting Taylor Massey Creek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

April 12, 2008

Just two bullets this month: a reminder about our spring events and a note
about an upcoming discussion on the future of water in Toronto: 

 

*	Reminder:  The TMP's spring events start this Saturday, April 19,
with an early-morning clean-up of Taylor Creek Park, followed by the
planting of a few trees. Details on this and all spring events can be found
below; and,

 

*	Upcoming Discussion: GreenTOpia, BlueTOpia - The Future of Water in
Toronto - The TMP has been asked to provide a speaker for this exciting
discussion, being held at 7 pm, Monday, April 21, at the North Toronto
Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Avenue West. The event is free and
is being coordinated by the Toronto Green Community and Coach House Books.
Complete details follow the list of events.

 

On behalf of the Board,

 

Andrew

 <http://www.TheTMP.org> www.TheTMP.org

 

 

Spring Events - 2008

 

8 - 9:30 am Saturday, April 19 - Taylor Creek Park Clean-up
Join the TMP and the East York Dog-walkers, led by Grainne, Chris, and
Muddy, as we kick off the spring's events a few days before Earthday with an
early-morning clean-up and the planting of 50 trees and shrubs. Litter bags
and planting stock provided by the City of Toronto. Meet off the end of
Haldon Ave, north of off Cosburn, east of Woodbine. Rain or shine, so please
dress appropriately, with sturdy footwear.


10 - 11:30 am Saturday, April 26 - Warden Woods Planting
Members and the public are welcome to participate in a small, inaugural
planting at the north end of Warden Woods Park being led by Elizabeth, Paul,
and neighbours from Moreau Trail, with stock provided by the TRCA. Meet in
the park just below the stairs at St Clair and Warden avenues, opposite the
Warden subway station. Rain or shine, so please dress appropriately, with
sturdy footwear.


10 - 11:30 Sunday, April 27 - Birding and Natural Heritage Protection in
Warden Woods
Join the TMP, Lost Rivers, and the Toronto Field Naturalists on a walk
through Warden Woods Park, which features both mature forests on steep
slopes that provide feeding and nesting sites for many bird species and many
ecological challenges including eroding banks, poor water quality, and
invasive species. Walk to be co-led by experienced birder Christine
Greenlaw. Meet at the Warden Subway Station. This 90-minute walk will end
near Pharmacy Avenue, after which people can continue to the Victoria Park
subway station (5 minutes) or walk back to Warden (20 minutes). Check out
the Self-guided Tours for more information on Warden Woods. Rain or shine,
so please dress appropriately, with sturdy footwear.


1:00 - 2:30 pm Sunday, April 27 - 3rd Annual St Clair Ravine Park Clean-up
Everyone is welcome to help clean up this park, on the north-west corner of
Birchmount and St Clair avenues, to be led by members of the
Santamonica-Birchmount Neighbourhood Association, with support from the
Clairlea Neighbourhood Association. Bags and rubber gloves provided by the
City of Toronto, but bring leather gloves and a rake if you can. Enter at St
Clair and Birchmount or via the stairs opposite the beer store on St Clair
and then meet at the bridge in the middle of the park. Rain or shine, so
please dress appropriately, with sturdy footwear.


9:30 - 11:30 am Saturday, May 3 - 5th Annual Underwriters' Corporate
Community Celebration
Members and the public are welcome to join the staff and families of
Underwriters Laboratories of Canada and Cadbury-Adams, being joined this
year by Pine Hills Cemetery, for our fifth planting along the section of the
Creek, which runs from Lawrence south to Ashtonbee. This year's addition of
250 trees and shrubs will bring the total to 1,425 pieces planted in 5
years, with stock and staff support from the City of Toronto and the
participation of Councillor Michael Thompson. Meet at Cadbury-Adams at 40
Bertrand, about 250 m west of Birchmount, north of Eglinton. Rain or shine,
so please dress appropriately, with sturdy footwear.


2 - 4 pm Saturday, May 10 - 14th Annual Farlinger Ravine Neighbourhood
Clean-up and Planting
All are welcome as the neighbours and friends of the creek stage their 14th
annual clean-up - one of the best in the City - and plant 125 trees and
shrubs. Litter bags, gloves, and plants supplied by the City of Toronto, but
bring leather gloves and rakes if you've got 'em. Wheelbarrows always
welcome. Contact Janet or Harry for more information at 416 261 4536,
especially if you want to attend the potluck BBQ after the event. If you are
unfamiliar with this area, park on Foxridge near Kennedy, south of Eglinton,
and walk north 500 meters to the second bridge. Event partners to be listed
soon. Rain or shine, so please dress appropriately, with sturdy footwear.

 

 

GREENTOPIA, BLUETOPIA - THE FUTURE OF WATER IN TORONTO

 

Moderated by Chris Hilkene of the Clean Water Foundation, with Eduardo
Sousa, Chris Hardwicke, Wayne Reeves and Andrew McCammon

 

7:00 pm Monday, April 21, 2008

North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Avenue West

Free. All are welcome.

 

About GreenTOpia:

 

More trees. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Urbiology. A new model of taxation. Solar
panels on big-box stores. The art of salvage. Composters for dog poo in city
parks. Retrofitting our urban slabs. Gardening the Gardiner. Ravine City.

 

What would make Toronto a greener place?

 

In the third volume in the uTOpia series, dozens of imaginative Torontonians
think big and small about sustainability. From suggestions for changes to
our transit system to a tongue-in-cheek proposal for a painted line around
the city, GreenTOpia challenges the city and its residents to rethink what
it means to be green in a metropolis, and how to take their love of the city
one green step further. GreenTOpia features photos, maps and a 56-page green
directory of resources, organizations, incentives and programs promoting
sustainability in the GTA.

 

'Anyone who reads this book -- whether they hail from the GTA or not -- will
derive great insight into the myriad challenges, successes and possibilities
leading to the improvement of the ecological standards of any city ... This
book provides the necessary guidelines to help focus our resolve in
increasing the sustainability quotient of our cities.' - Canadian Architect

 

About the participants:

 

Christopher Hilkene is the president of the Clean Water Foundation. He is
also a member of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy
and teaches a course on water policy at York University's Faculty of
Environmental Studies.

 

Eduardo Sousa is the regional organizer for the Council of Canadians for
Ontario-Quebec-Nunavut. He has a Master's Degree in Environmental Studies
from York University, where he focused on watershed education and planning
how to interweave community development and restoring urban streams,
especially buried ones.

 

Chris Hardwicke is the director of urbanism at Sweeny Sterling Finlayson &
Co. Architects. Chris's visionary projects have been published
internationally, and include Velo-City,  a proposed bicycle highway, and
Farm City, a project that integrates farming into dense housing, as well as
Ravine City.

 

Wayne Reeves, while wearing the official title of Program Standards and
Development Officer, is probably the only historical geographer employed by
the City of Toronto's Parks, Forestry and Recreation Division. He has at
least a toe in many of the waterfront park projects underway across the
city.

 

Andrew McCammon is the founding chair of the Taylor Massey Project, a 

community-based organization linking local neighbourhoods together to
celebrate and protect Toronto's Taylor Massey Creek.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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