Environment

Toronto Transit Experiment

- Fraser Birt 4 Comments

The Toronto Transit Commission is starting an interesting experiment on it’s St. Clair street car line: the Time Based Transfer. Transfers on the line are now valid for up to two hours after you disembark the vehicle, and will allow you to board any other TTC route, including the one you just departed. See a trendy cafe from the window? Need to do some shopping? Now you can do it all on one ride.

This seems like a good way to encourage people to use Transit for their non-commuter needs. If successful, the word is that these transfers will be expanded to the entire network.

Russia Destroys Chemical Weapons Themselves!

- Vanessa King

After several years of arguing with the U.S over financial aid, Moscow has come up with its own funding to speed up the deconstruction of it’s chemical weapons aresenal. Russian industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko has submitted a proposal which states that Russia should reprocess 40 thousand tons of combat poisonous materials and also calls for an accelerated reprocessing pace of the chemical weapons.

In the past the officials had planned to finance the project with foreign funds, but Moscow never recieved the money. Now the government has approved the proposals providing 171 billion rubles for the program. Several new plants for the destruction of mustard gas, sarin, soman, and VX gas will be built with funds from this new budget.

This is an extremely important move toward the Global fight against dangerous chemical weapons which will hopefully encourage other countries to seriously consider deconstructing toxic weapons as well.

Cars in Toronto

- Adam Clare

I’ve written an article for BlogTO.com that discusses a university professor looking into air quality. He’s doing good things, check it out.

Swords to Plowshares

- Fraser Birt 1 Comment

Or in this case, Cold War era destroyers to reefs. The Queensland Government has scuttled the HMAS Brisbane, a decommissioned destroyer, in an effort to create a new underwater habitat. Although this sort of thing has happened before, this time there are pictures! Double good news.

Ecological Footprint

- Adam Clare

How many Earths do you require? You can see how many planet Earths the current human population would need if they all consumed as mush as you. It takes into account the country you’re living in and the size of your city.

This is known as your ecological footprint. It’s presented by the kind people at Earth Day.net and Redefining Progress.

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