GreenTOpia BlueTOpia April 21, 2008

On Monday, April 21st, the Toronto Green Community presents a special evening discussion about the future of water in Toronto. Four contributors to Coach House Books' GreenTOpia: Towards a Sustainable Toronto look at water in the city -- its ravine system, changing water bodies and creeks -- and discuss ideas for improving Toronto's water future.

The panel discussion will be moderated by Chris Hilkene, president of the Clean Water Foundation. Please see below (and attached document) for details. We hope you can make it out!

MONDAY, APRIL 21 - GREENTOPIA, BLUETOPIA

GreenTOpia, BlueTOpia
The Future of Water in Toronto
with Eduardo Sousa, Chris Hardwicke, Wayne Reeves and Andrew McCammon
moderated by Clean Water Foundation
Monday, April 21, 2008
North Toronto Memorial Community Centre, 200 Eglinton Avenue West
Toronto, ON
7:00 p.m.
Free. All are welcome.

About GreenTOpia:

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:

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.

Andrew McCammon is the founding chair of the Taylor Massey Project.

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.

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.

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.

For media requests, please contact Evan Munday at 416.979.2217 or [email protected].

Official Website: http://torontogreen.ca/