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Thanks to @FriendsofBerczy for organizing today’s #EarthDay2023 clean up.
It’s always great to see people come together to take care of our communities - even in the pouring rain!
It’s always great to see people come together to take care of our communities - even in the pouring rain!
Most of the litter today was #SingleUsePlastics and takeout containers. It will return again and again, unless we take action to reduce this waste at the source.
Our city needs solutions like #ReusableTO containers, sustainable packaging and small business supports to go green.
Our city needs solutions like #ReusableTO containers, sustainable packaging and small business supports to go green.
And there is so much more we can and must do to protect our environment and act on the climate crisis.
We can have reliable public transit, safe streets for cyclists and pedestrians, thriving green space, clean rivers, climate-ready communities, and good green jobs!
We can have reliable public transit, safe streets for cyclists and pedestrians, thriving green space, clean rivers, climate-ready communities, and good green jobs!
Last week, Toronto Community Housing issued a Request for Proposals for a “District Energy System Consultant - Regent Park Revitalization Phases 4 and 5”. torontohousing.ca/doing-business… This is an incredible opportunity. #TransformTO 🧵 1/10
First, some context. Here is the overall phasing plan for Regent Park, as well as the proposed massing and estimated construction schedule for Phases 4 & 5. 2/10
Here is the existing district energy system, which is supplied by a main plant in the parking garage of 252 Sackville Street (Block 14), and a satellite plant on the roof of Block 16N (NW corner of Oak & Sumach) currently under construction. There is also a small microgrid. 3/10
🧵Great presentations and discussion on the approaches to #DistrictEnergy development in Denmark and Canada (mostly ON and BC). TL;DR, they are very different! Thanks @ULIToronto and @BTYGroup 1/8
Denmark responded to the 1970s oil crisis with strong regulation of the heat sector. As Lars Hummelrose of @DBDHdk shows, in some ways it looks like Ontario’s regulation of electricity. 2/8
This provides certain advantages, including massive thermal networks (99% of Copenhagen buildings are connected), as well as thermal/electrical integration and advanced fuel switching, as illustrated here by Maëlle Caussarieu from the City of Copenhagen. 3/8
While it's true that the Ford government has no climate action plan and is providing next to no support for municipal action, I think there is a lot more that the Mayors and Councillors quoted here can do on their own. 🧵1/9
On new development specifically, municipalities can "compel sustainability in [private] buildings". Toronto has the Toronto Green Standard, which we apply using Site Plan Control, through authority in the Planning Act and City of Toronto Act (COTA). 2/9 taf.ca/green-developm…
All Ontario municipalities have the same authorities as Toronto (through the Municipal Act), which is how Whitby developed their green building standard. whitby.ca/en/work/whitby… Ottawa is next and others are currently working on their own. 3/9
Finally read @jm_mcgrath's article on the Etobicoke Civic Centre Precinct low carbon district energy project, one of our first DE projects. Long-thread🧵 on it's journey, which I joined in 2013, but which really started early post-amalgamation: tvo.org/article/breaki…
1999: City Council received the report "Accommodation Plan and Long-term Strategy for Service Delivery for the City of Toronto and Master Plan for Office Accommodation" (aka the original #ModernTO), which identified the need for new facilities for west sector City staff. 1/18
2002: City identifies "new development at the City-owned former Westwood Theatre lands", pending reconfiguration of the Six Points Interchange. Proposed development process would include analyzing "feasibility of a zero-energy or near zero building". toronto.ca/legdocs/2003/a… 2/18
