sasha on the street

Lately one of my favourite shows to watch is The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. It is entertaining, informative, makes me laugh and a great way to close my day.
More recently on the show he has been promoting One Million Acts of Green; your way to make a difference to the environment. The simplest way to [...]

What is the best way to learn a city? Go for a run. When I used to move or travel to new cities to get to know the city I would throw on my shoes, some tunes and head out the door. With no set schedule I would run for as long I wanted to [...]

September 23rd was a ‘big’ day in the Toronto area with both the TAC conference taking place and Metrolinx unveiling their master plan for the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.
I had the opportunity to attend the session on Regional Transportation Plans: Lessons In Sustainability. The first presentation of the session is what drew the crowds. [...]

It was a pretty busy week between class and the Transportation Association of Canada Conference but it was a great learning experience. This week our focus was the technology-based connectiveness …
Did we influence technology or did technology influence us?
Vanderburg cited that it was cyclical and he used the example of the the textile industry to illustrate [...]

As a follow up to last week’s Green Building Festival Here in Toronto I thought I would talk about Green Initiatives and Sustainability on Campus. With three universities attending, U of T, York and Ryerson, I mentioned (here) that they all spoke to their campus ‘greening.’
By the time the roundtable discussions were over I understood [...]

Where do I even start? Yesterday was fantastic. I learned a lot, met some great people and I’m really looking forward to today.
From Malmo, Sweeden to Vancouver there were lots of great ideas to come out. The day was all lectures and our speakers were from the Netherlands, Germany, and many great Canadians. The themes [...]

Although I was nervous this morning, I survived my first day of class … new program, new building and an old friend.
My first class, titled above, is taught by Professor W.H. Vanderburg. His passion’s lie in the study of technology, society, biosphere interactions and its application to the development of preventive approaches for the engineering, [...]

An Ontario camping legend and friend of mine passed away recently. He was insprired by Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and taught us, his campers, to live that way. Ted believed that we could all be dreamer’s and around a campfire would sing “…and a dreamer keeps a dreamin’ ages long.”
It has been a few years [...]

I’ve been living here in Toronto my whole life. Over the last ten years I’ve noticed a sharp increase in the amount of traffic congestion, pollution, and over all unpleasantness in the city. Having many opportunities to travel while I was pursuing my education I had the opportunity to see what other world cities were [...]