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Look at The Box in Toronto

- Adam Clare 1 Comment

Shameless promotion (but not self-promotion) of an event happening in Toronto that looks to be really good:

The Box is a quarterly salon night that aims to bring diverse communities and audiences into an environment of artistic and social intermingling. On September 15th, the Box goes to rare heights. We’re perching atop the Wrigley building and you’re invited to a roof-party with words, performance, humour, and music. Featuring: Claire Jenkins avec band, Jess Dobkin, Karl Mohr, Motion, Mike Hoolboom, Leanda Quinquet (About the Music, CIUT 89.5 FM), Josh Thorpe, Tomboyfriend, Bryen Dunn & Jeanette Cabral (Sex City, CIUT 89.5 FM) and Steve Venright. Beverages courtesy of Mill Street Brewery.
Saturday September 15th
7 pm
The Wrigley Building

235 Carlaw, 6th Floor (just north of Queen and Carlaw, accessible by the Queen Streetcar and Pape Bus)

$10-$15 scale donation
no one turned away

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Dignitas Race for Dignity

- Adam Clare

I’m biking for charity and I need your help! Dignitas is an organization that aims to help those who are affected by HIV and they are having a fundraising event and it would be great if you could show your support.

On June 23, Dignitas International is holding the Race for Dignity Challenge – a fundraising spinathon on stationary bikes for people affected by AIDS in Africa.

Teams of participants will spin for 12 hours at Toronto’s Dundas Square to support Dignitas International’s innovative community-based care model.

Each month Dignitas tests thousands of people for HIV and starts hundreds on life-saving HIV medications in Africa.

Please help me fundraise for Dignitas!

Toronto Begins Implementing Clinton Cities Challenge

- Adam Clare

Shortly after returning from the meeting of 16 mayors who are getting support from Clinton et. all to green their cities, Toronto mayor David Miller has announced a hybrid car campaign. Toronto will begin testing plug-in hybrids to test the feasibility of a mass rollout of the cars. The testing phase will start small but get progressively larger over time.

“The key purpose is to determine if plug-in hybrid technology is suitable to Toronto’s climate
and roads,” Miller said in Toronto’s Nathan Phillips Square on Saturday, at the launch of the program.

There are suggestions that the converted vehicles would be able to feed electricity back into the grid, serving as mobile power stations to homes during a blackout. Or they could be plugged into the electricity grid during periods of peak demand to supply power and prevent blackouts.

City Likes to Blow

- Adam Clare

Toronto is looking to green their buildings, and what better place to start than city hall?

Putting small wind turbines on the roof at city hall was one of several ideas presented yesterday to reduce the building’s $3 million annual energy bill.

“Personally, I think it’s a really neat way of increasing the renewable energy footprint for the city hall,” consultant Paul Leitch told about 50 experts meeting yesterday to ponder ways of greening the 42-year-old twin towers.

Leitch said it would cost about $125,000 to install six of the devices – three on each tower – to produce enough electricity to power about nine homes.

Thanks, Lindsay!

Ontario Goes Solar

- Adam Clare

After recently banning old light bulbs, the province of Ontario has permitted a Californian company permission to build a rather large solar power facility.

The Ontario government has approved a California company’s plan to build North America’s largest photovoltaic solar farm, the provincial energy ministry announced Thursday.

OptiSolar Farms Canada Inc. of Arthur, Ont. — a subsidiary of California-based OptiSolar Inc. — will install more than one million solar panels at four farms outside Sarnia, Ont., providing the province with 40 megawatts of power by 2010. Ontario Energy Minister Dwight Duncan said that’s enough to power 6,000 homes.

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