Category: Videos

  • Please Support “Let’s Vote For a Poverty Free Ontario” on September 13, 2011

    Following Interfaith Social Assistance Reform Coalition’s (ISARC ‘s) publication of Persistent Poverty: Voices from the Margins, and based on the findings of the social audits in 26 locations across Ontario, Canada, ISARC is “particularly concerned that the latest Ontario budget offered so little to those on social assistance – $5.92 per month, as Carol Goar…

  • ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes Grants For Homeowners Are Back!

    ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes Grants For Homeowners Are Back Summer is a great time to do home renovations, especially when Natural Resources Canada wants to help you now (June 6, 2011 – March 31, 2012) reduce the costs of making your home more energy efficient. Homeowners who participated in the ecoENERGY Retrofit – Homes program…

  • Heat Alert for Toronto Starts July 19: Prevent Heat Stress

    A heat alert has been declared for Toronto today and will be in effect until further notice. During a Heat Alert, there is a greater risk of suffering from heat-related illness for a number of groups, including: isolated adults and seniors people with chronic and pre-existing illnesses, infants and young children, people on certain medications…

  • Toronto Agrees on a Pedestrian Tunnel to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport

    Presently, the only public access to the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport on Toronto Island from the Toronto mainland is via the Toronto Port Authority (TPA)-operated Toronto Island Ferry, with a traversing distance of only 122 m (400 ft). The TPA, a Federal public authority, operates the 200-passenger ferry Marilyn Bell I and the 150-passenger David Hornell.…

  • You’re Invited: Skateboarding Instruction at New Eighth Street Skate Spot

    Here is a great video showing children enjoying skateboarding at one of Toronto’s skateboard parks, Ashbridges Bay Skate Park in Ontario, Canada: Bring your skateboards to the new skateboard park called Eighth Street Skate Spot and get beginners’ skateboarding instruction for ages 8 to 14 years. Also, you can take part in the City of…

  • You’re Invited: Three Toronto Events With Road Closures July 15 – 18, 2011

    Come out and enjoy this weekend’s special events in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Businesses in the affected areas are open to pedestrian traffic but some roads will be closed to motorists. You are encouraged to take public transit as a greener, faster and more affordable way of getting to your destinations. If you need to drive…

  • See Sustainable Living Trends and Learn Ecological Jargon

    You can include the following ecological jargon and terms in your green conversation as you watch these videos about very exciting, sensational sustainable living systems, which demonstrate: Green home’s energy-monitoring, saving and production technologies in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Adaptive-Living Interface System (ALIS) to track and adjust tenants’ energy consumption via web-based portable tools such…